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Mathematics People Mathematics People John B. Friedlander, John McKay, Edwin Perkins, Donald A. Borodin Receives 2008 CRM- Dawson, David Boyd, Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, and Fields-PIMS Prize Joel S. Feldman. Allan Borodin of the University of Toronto has been —From a Fields Institute announcement awarded the 2008 CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize. The prize, awarded annually by the Centre de Recherches Mathé- matiques (CRM), the Fields Institute, and the Pacific In- stitute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), recognizes Devlin Awarded Sagan Prize exceptional contributions by a mathematician working in Keith Devlin of Stanford University has been awarded Canada. The prize carries a cash award of CA$10,000 (ap- the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization. The proximately US$9,800) and an invitation to give a lecture prize is awarded by the Board of Trustees of Wonderfest at each institute. to honor researchers in the San Francisco Bay Area who According to the prize citation, Borodin “is a world make science accessible. The award carries a cash prize leader in the mathematical foundations of computer of US$5,000. science. His influence on theoretical computer science Devlin is a senior researcher at and executive director has been enormous, and its scope is very broad.” He has of the Center for the Study of Language and Information made fundamental contributions to many areas, includ- (CSLI) at Stanford and a cofounder of the Stanford Media X ing algebraic computations, resource trade-offs, routing research network and of the university’s H-STAR institute. in interconnection networks, parallel algorithms, online His current research focuses on applying mathematical algorithms, and adversarial queuing theory. Borodin received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics logic to studying reasoning, communication, and human from Rutgers University in 1963, his master’s degree in behavior. He has been an advisor to the television show electrical engineering and computer science in 1966 from NUMB3RS and appears on National Public Radio as “the Stevens Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in computer Math Guy”. He is a World Economic Forum fellow and a science from Cornell University in 1969. He was a systems fellow of the American Association for the Advancement programmer at Bell Laboratories from 1963 to 1966 and of Science. a research fellow at Cornell from 1966 to 1969. He has The Sagan Prize is awarded annually to an individual been a member of the computer science department at the who has contributed to the public understanding and University of Toronto since 1969 and served as chair of the appreciation of science, who is a legal resident of one of department from 1980 to 1985. He has edited many jour- the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties, and who has a nals, including SIAM Journal of Computing, Algorithmica, history of accomplishment in scientific research, at least Journal of Computer Algebra, Journal of Computational half of which was conducted in the Bay Area. Complexity, and Journal of Applicable Algebra in Engineer- ing, Communication, and Computing. He is a fellow of the —Elaine Kehoe Royal Society of Canada. The CRM and the Fields Institute established the CRM- Fields Prize in 1994 to recognize exceptional research in the mathematical sciences. In 2005, PIMS became an equal Prizes of the Mathematical partner, and the name was changed to the CRM-Fields-PIMS Society of Japan Prize. Previous recipients of the prize are H.S.M. (Donald) Coxeter, George A. Elliott, James Arthur, Robert V. Moody, The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ) awarded a num- Stephen A. Cook, Israel Michael Sigal, William T. Tutte, ber of prizes in autumn 2007. 394 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 55, NUMBER 3 Mathematics People Tadahisa Funaki of the University of Tokyo was awarded the Autumn Prize for his contributions to sto- Professor of the Year Awards chastic analysis on large-scale interacting systems, in Announced particular on the Ginzburg-Landau φ intersurface model ∇ and the low-temperature limit of interacting Brownian Two mathematicians have been selected as National Pro- particles. The Autumn Prize is awarded to an individual fessors of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the who has made outstanding contributions within the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advance- preceding five years to mathematics in the highest and ment and Support of Education (CASE), which cosponsor broadest sense. the awards, and another mathematician has received a Shigeyuki Morita and Kenichi Yoshikawa, both State Professor of the Year award. The Professor of the of the University of Tokyo, were awarded the Geometry Year Awards are intended to reward outstanding profes- Prizes. Morita was recognized for his fundamental research sors for their dedication to teaching, their commitment to work on mapping class groups, in particular his discovery students, and their innovative instructional methods. of the Mumford-Morita-Miller characteristic classes, which Rosemary M. Karr of Collin County Community Col- resolves the structure of the stable cohomology algebra lege was named Outstanding Community Colleges Pro- of mapping class groups. Yoshikawa was honored for his fessor for 2007. She developed Passport Mathematics, a research work on the Ray-Singer analytic torsion and its holistic, self-paced program that cuts math anxiety and boosts self-confidence while providing a strong founda- behavior on various moduli spaces, which derives, for tion in mathematics. Participants in the program also put instance, a geometric construction of Borcherds modular their math skills to work in the community by tutoring forms for the moduli space of K3 surfaces. at-risk young people and by writing about their experi- The Analysis Prizes have been awarded to Shigeki Aida ences in journals. of Osaka University, Toshiaki Hishida of Niigata Univer- Carlos G. Spaht of Louisiana State University, Shreve- sity, and Takeshi Hirai of Kyoto University in recognition port, was selected as Outstanding Master’s Universities of their outstanding contributions to analysis. Aida was and Colleges Professor for 2007. He created a two-year honored for his contributions to stochastic analysis in program that helps to prepare underserved middle and infinite-dimensional spaces, with special reference to high school students for college programs in math, sci- his work on functional inequalities, symmetric diffusion ence, and engineering. He directs a tutoring program for processes, and semiclassical limits. Hishida was recog- inner-city youths in the Shreveport area and helped de- nized for his contributions to the new developments in velop a financial literacy course for high school teachers Fujita-Kato theory for the Navier-Stokes equations and, in and students. He is a past recipient of a Presidential Award particular, for his work on Navier-Stokes flows in aperture for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering domains and around rotating bodies. Hirai was honored Mentoring. for his contributions to the representation theory of Frank Jones of Rice University in Texas was honored infinite symmetric groups, with special reference to his as a State Professor of the Year. The State Professors of work on irreducible representations of infinite symmetric the Year Award Program selects outstanding educators groups. in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Winners receive person- —From a Mathematical Society of Japan announcement alized award certificates and national and local media recognition. Venkatesh Receives Packard —From a Carnegie Foundation announcement Fellowship Akshay Venkatesh, a mathematician at the Courant Insti- Rhodes Scholarships Awarded tute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, has Two students in the mathematical sciences are among the received a Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the thirty-two American men and women chosen as Rhodes David and Lucile Packard Foundation for the year 2007. Scholars by the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. The Rhodes He will conduct research in number theory, in particular Scholars were chosen from among 764 applicants who developing a suite of techniques to study L-functions from were endorsed by 294 different colleges and universities the analytic viewpoint using ideas from various fields of in a nationwide competition. The names and brief biogra- mathematics, including nonabelian harmonic analysis and phies of the mathematics scholars follow. ergodic theory. Adam M. Levine of the Bronx, New York, is a senior at The Packard Fellowships are awarded to researchers Dartmouth College, where he majors in anthropology, art in mathematics, natural sciences, computer science, and history, and mathematics and social science. His under- engineering who are in the first three years of a faculty graduate thesis in art history is an examination of canoni- appointment. cal images of Christ. He is interested in the application of mathematical network analysis to art, historical, and —From a Packard Foundation announcement anthropological studies. He is also a light heavyweight MARCH 2008 NOTICES OF THE AMS 395 Mathematics People boxer. He plans to study for a D.Phil. in classics at Ox- 2007. He speaks Bengali and Spanish fluently. He plans to ford. study mathematics or physics and would like to become Shayak Sarkar of Edinburg, Texas, received both his a professor of mathematics. bachelor of arts degree in applied mathematics and a Alexander C. Huang of Plano, Texas, received a master’s degree in statistics from Harvard University in US$10,000 scholarship for his project, “Mathematical 2007. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior and won Modeling of a Eukaryotic Circadian Clock”. Huang is a se- a prize for his thesis on America’s homeless children. He nior at Plano Senior High School. His biophysics research is interested in applying his analytical skills in mathemat- utilizes circadian-clock rhythms in bread mold to assist ics, statistics, and economics to the problems of poverty, in the understanding of various biological cycles of living especially affordable housing and education reform.
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