Aise Johan de Jong receives 2022 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition

“The AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition is awarded annually for a book or substantial survey or expository research paper. The Steele Prizes were established in 1970 in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood, and William Caspar Graustein, and are endowed under the terms of a bequest from Leroy P. Steele.

The 2022 prize will be presented Wednesday, January 5 during the Joint Prize Session at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle.” -American Mathematical Society

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“Forty-five mathematical scientists from around the world have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2022, the program’s tenth year.

AMS members designated as Fellows of the AMS have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics. The AMS is pleased to honor excellence by presenting the class of 2022 Fellows, who are being recognized by their peers for their contributions to the profession.”

• Blumberg, Andrew J., Columbia University – 2022, For contributions to algebraic topology, geometric data analysis, and systems security.
• Corwin, Ivan, Columbia University – 2022, For contributions to integrable probability, the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, and stochastic vertex models.

– AMS press release

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From the official press release:

“The 2021 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize is awarded to Dr. Will Sawin of Columbia University for his many path-breaking contributions at the interface of number theory and algebraic geometry utilizing a variety of powerful methods from different areas of mathematics. The prize recognizes his revolutionary recent joint work with Mark Shusterman which establishes analogues of the celebrated prime twins and Goldbach conjectures in the function field context, and the proof in a function field setting of the analogue of Chowla’s conjecture on the correlations of the Moebius function, and Landau’s conjecture that there are infinitely many primes of the form N2 + 1. In addition, the prize recognizes his joint paper with Emmanuel Kowalski and Philippe Michel (Annals of Mathematics (2017)) on bilinear forms with Kloosterman sums, where a long standing problem on moments of L-functions is solved by combining techniques from automorphic forms, analytic number theory, and p-adic cohomology. The prize is also for his fundamental joint work with Tim Browning on a geometric version of the Hardy-Littlewood-Ramanujan circle method (Annals of Mathematics (2020)), which has vastly increased our understanding of spaces of rational curves of a given degree on a smooth hyspersurface, and also enabled us to perform enumerative geometry on such surfaces in situations that were beyond the reach of traditional geometric methods. Finally, the prize notes the impact of his work in the resolution of the mixing conjecture of Philippe Michel and Akshay Venkatesh in the function field setting, and in particular his paper in Inventiones Mathematicae (2020), where he settled the conjecture in positive characteristic. These and other contributions of Dr. Sawin are having far-reaching consequences in various branches of mathematics.”

Additional details on the prize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SASTRA_Ramanujan_Prize

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Congratulations to Ivan Corwin, who was recently selected to receive the 2021 Loève Prize in Probability. The prize is awarded every two years “to recognize outstanding contributions by researchers in probability who are under 45 years old.”

For more details about the Loève Prize, including a list of previous recipients, please visit: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/about/awards-and-honors/loeve-prize

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Congratulations to Amol Aggarwal, who was recently awarded the IAMP Early Career Award! This prize is awarded every three years at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics (ICMP) “in recognition of a single achievement in Mathematical Physics” by a scientist who is under 35 years of age.

For more on the 2021 ICMP proceedings, please visit: https://www.icmp2021.com/awards/

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Professor Joan Birman was elected as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences.

“The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution that was established under a congressional charter signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It recognizes achievement in science by election to membership, and—with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine—provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.”

For the full announcement please visit;

2021 NAS Election (nasonline.org)

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The incoming graduate class for 2021 has been announced. For a list of the new students, please visit the incoming class page.

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Title: The P=W conjecture and hyper-Kähler geometry.

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Title: The stability of black holes with matter.

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