{"id":7085,"date":"2014-08-12T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7085"},"modified":"2014-08-16T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T13:25:44","slug":"2014-fields-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7085","title":{"rendered":"2014 Fields Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this wasn&#8217;t supposed to be announced until late this evening New York time, but the Fields Medal announcement is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathunion.org\/general\/prizes\/2014\">online<\/a>.  The winners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artur Avila<\/li>\n<li>Manjul Bhargava<\/li>\n<li>Martin Hairer<\/li>\n<li>Maryam Mirzakhani<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields medal.  Congratulations to all four.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not at all knowledgeable about the work of this year&#8217;s medalists, for this you can consult the press releases on the ICM page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Quanta magazine has profiles of the winners.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/quanta\/20140812-a-brazilian-wunderkind-who-calms-chaos\/\">Avila<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/quanta\/20140812-the-musical-magical-number-theorist\/\">Bhargava<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/quanta\/20140808-in-mathematical-noise-one-who-heard-music\/\">Hairer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/quanta\/20140812-a-tenacious-explorer-of-abstract-surfaces\/\">Mirzakhani<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nUpdate<\/strong>:  For ICM blogging, clearly the place to go is the <a href=\"http:\/\/gowers.wordpress.com\/\">blog of a Fields Medalist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>  According to Tim Gowers, the Fields Medal Committee was: Daubechies, Ambrosio, Eisenbud, Fukaya, Ghys, Dick Gross, Kirwan, Kollar, Kontsevich, Struwe, Zeitouni and G\u00fcnter Ziegler.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:  For two very different sorts of blog posts about the Fields Medal, see <a href=\"http:\/\/terrytao.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/12\/avila-bhargava-hairer-mirzakhani\/\">Terry Tao<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mathbabe.org\/2014\/08\/15\/i-love-math-and-i-hate-the-fields-medal\/\">Mathbabe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this wasn&#8217;t supposed to be announced until late this evening New York time, but the Fields Medal announcement is now online. The winners are: Artur Avila Manjul Bhargava Martin Hairer Maryam Mirzakhani Mirzakhani is the first woman to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=7085\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7107,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions\/7107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}