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k = 3 towards a conjecture of Chowla on the values of the Matomäki and Radziwill lambda function on sets of k consecutive integers. Finally, Awarded 2016 SASTRA the prize notes that Matomäki and Radziwill, through their impressive array of deep results and the powerful new Ramanujan Prize techniques they have introduced, will strongly influence the development of analytic in the future.” Kaisa Matomäki of the Uni- Kaisa Matomäki was born in Nakkila, Finland, in 1985. versity of Turku, Finland, and After completing her PhD at the Royal Holloway College Maksym Radziwill of McGill University and Rutgers Univer- of the University of London in 2009 under the direction sity have been awarded the 2016 of Glyn Harman, she returned to Turku, where she is an SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for Academy Research Fellow. She is currently on maternity their joint work on multiplica- leave and enjoys spending most of her time with her seven- tive functions in short intervals. month-old daughter and three-year-old son. They will share the cash award of Maksym Radziwill was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1988. US$10,000. In 1991 his family moved to Poland and in 2006 to Canada. The prize citation reads “Kaisa He received his PhD from under the Kaisa Matomäki Matomäki and Maksym Radzi- direction of . He has been a visiting will are jointly awarded the 2016 member at the Institute for Advanced Study (2013–2014) SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for their deep and far-reaching and assistant professor at (2014–2017) contributions to several important problems in diverse and is currently assistant professor at McGill University. areas of number theory and especially for their spec- The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize is awarded annually for tacular collaboration, which is outstanding contributions by young mathematicians to revolutionizing the subject. The areas influenced by the work of Srinivasa Ramanujan. The prize recognizes that in making age limit for the prize has been set at thirty-two because significant improvements over Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of thirty-two the works of earlier stalwarts years. The prize will be awarded in December 2016 at the on long-standing problems, they International Conference on Number Theory at SASTRA have introduced a number of in- University in Kumbakonam (Ramanujan’s hometown), novative techniques. The prize where the prize has been given annually. especially recognizes their col- The members of the 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize laboration starting with their Committee were: 2015 joint paper in Geometric and Functional Analysis which •Krishnaswami Alladi, chair, University of Florida Maksym Radziwill led to their 2016 paper in the •Henri Darmon, McGill University Annals of Mathematics in which they obtain amazing •Winfried Kohnen, University of Heidelberg results on multiplicative functions in short intervals, •Hugh Montgomery, and in particular a stunning result on the parity of the •, and Institute for Liouville lambda function on almost all short intervals— Advanced Study a paper that is expected to change the subject of mul- •Michael Schlosser, University of Vienna tiplicative functions in a major way. The prize notes •Cameron Stewart, University of Waterloo also the very recent joint paper of Matomäki, Radziwill, and Tao announcing a significant advance in the case

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The full list of awardees of the SASTRA riding, weightlifting, and tennis.” The Doctoral Prize is Ramanujan Prize follows: awarded annually to a doctoral student from a Canadian •2005 and Kannan Soundararajan university who has demonstrated exceptional perfor- (two full prizes) mance in mathematical research. •2006 •2007 Ben Green —From a CMS announcement •2008 •2009 Kathrin Bringmann •2010 Wei Zhang Diamond Awarded CME–MSRI •2011 Roman Holowinsky •2012 Zhiwei Yun Prize •2013 Peter Scholze •2014 James Maynard Douglas Diamond of the University of Chicago has •2015 Jacob Tsimerman been named the 2015 recipient of the CME–MSRI Prize in •2016 Kaisa Matomäki and Maksym Radziwill (joint Innovative Quantitative Applications by the CME Group prize) and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) for his work in financial economics. His major interest is —Krishnaswami Alladi, University of Florida the study of financial intermediaries, financial crises, and liquidity. The prize recognizes individuals who contribute original concepts in mathematical, statistical, or compu- Khot Awarded MacArthur tational methods for the study of the markets’ behavior Fellowship and global economics. Subhash Khot of the Courant —From a CME–MSRI announcement Institute of Mathematical Sci- ences, New York University, has been awarded a MacArthur Fel- 2016 Davidson Fellows lowship for 2016. According to the prize citation, Khot “is a theo- Selected retical computer scientist whose work is providing critical insight Two high school students into unresolved problems in the whose projects involved the Subhash Khot field of computational complex- mathematical sciences have ity.” been named 2016 Davidson The MacArthur Foundation awards unrestricted fellow- Fellows. Katherine Hudek, ships to individuals who display exceptional creativity, seventeen, of Grafton, Mas- promise for important future advances based on a track sachusetts, was awarded a record of significant accomplishment, and potential for US$25,000 scholarship for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work. her project “A New Quantum Programming Language for —From a MacArthur Foundation announcement Katherine Hudek Specifying Quantum Compu- tations.” Meena Jagadeesan, eigh- CMS Doctoral Prize Awarded teen, of Naperville, Illinois, was awarded a US$50,000 schol- Vincent X. Genest of the Mas- arship for her project “The sachusetts Institute of Technol- Exchange Graphs of Weakly ogy has been awarded the 2016 Doctoral Prize of the Canadian Separated Collections.” Mathematical Society (CMS). His The Davidson Fellows pro- doctoral thesis, “Algebraic struc- gram, a project of the David- tures, superintegrable systems son Institute for Talent Devel- and orthogonal polynomials,” opment, awards scholarships Meena Jagadeesan comprises twenty-three research to students eighteen years of papers and five conference pro- age or younger who have cre- ceedings written in collabora- ated significant projects that have the potential to benefit Vincent X. Genest tion with other mathematicians society in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and physicists, most of which literature, music, and philosophy. have been published in top-tier journals. In addition to mathematics, Genest is “passionate about motorcycle —From a Davidson Fellows announcement

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•Nathan Dowlin (Princeton University), Columbia NDSEG Fellowships Awarded University Ten young mathematicians have been awarded National •Nicholas Edelen (Stanford University), Massachu- Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fel- setts Institute of Technology lowships by the Department of Defense (DoD) for 2016. •Maria Gillespie (University of California Berkeley), The Fellowships are sponsored by the United States Army, University of California Davis Navy, and Air Force. As a means of increasing the number •Karsten Gimre (Columbia University), Harvard Uni- of US citizens trained in disciplines of military importance versity in science and engineering, DoD awards fellowships to •Ryan Goh (), Boston Univer- individuals who have demonstrated ability and special sity aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering. •Boaz Haberman (University of California Berkeley), Following are the names of the fellows, their institu- University of Chicago tions, and the offices that awarded the fellowships: •Irina Holmes (Louisiana State University), Washing- •Kristen Altenburger, Stanford University, Office ton University of Naval Research (ONR) •Katrina Honigs (University of California Berkeley), •Samuel Cogar, University of Delaware, Army University of Utah Research Office (ARO) •Kaitlyn Hood (University of California Los Angeles), •Daniel Fortunato, , Air Force Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Laboratory (AFRL) •Aukosh Jagannath (New York University), Univer- •Rina Friedberg, Stanford University, ONR sity of Toronto •Kristen Hunter, Harvard University, ONR •Casey Jao (University of California Los Angeles), •Shuai Jiang, Brown University, ARO University of California Berkeley •Will Pazner, Brown University, AFRL •Kenneth Jeffries (University of Utah), University of •Mark Perlman, Stanford University, AFRL Michigan •Evan Rosenman, Stanford University, AFRL •Benjamin Knudsen (Northwestern University), Har- •Angela Zhou, Undecided, ARO vard University •Ben Krause (University of California Los Angeles), —From a DoD announcement University of British Columbia •Subrahmanya Krishnamoorthy (Columbia Uni- versity), Freie Universitat *NSF Postdoctoral Research •Jaclyn Lang (University of California Los Angeles), Université Paris 13 Fellowships Awarded •Emily Leven (University of California San Diego), University of Pennsylvania The Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow- Kathryn Mann (University of Chicago), University ship Program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences • of California Berkeley (DMS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) awards Howard Nuer (Rutgers University), Northeastern Fellowships each year for postdoctoral research in pure • University mathematics, applied mathematics and operations re- James Pascoe (University of California San Diego), search, and statistics. Following are the names of the • Washington University fellowship recipients for 2016, together with their PhD Alexander Perry (Harvard University), Columbia institutions (in parentheses) and the institutions at which • University they will use their fellowships. Aaron Royer (University of Texas Austin), Univer- Alex Blumenthal (New York University), University • • sity of California Los Angeles of Maryland Noah Schweber (University of California Berkeley), Nathaniel Bottman (Massachusetts Institute of • • University of Wisconsin, Madison Technology), Princeton University Benjamin Schweinhart (Princeton University), Ohio Brian Collier (University of Illinois Urbana-Cham- • • State University paign), University of Maryland Kirill Serkh (), New York University Nicholas Cook (University of California, Los Ange- • • Kyler Siegel (Stanford University), Massachusetts les), Stanford University • Institute of Technology •Anil Damle (Stanford University), University of California Berkeley •Liam Solus (University of Kentucky), Royal Institute of Technology Nicholas Switala (University of Minnesota), Uni- *The most up-to-date listing of NSF funding opportunities from • the Division of Mathematical Sciences can be found online at: versity of Illinois at Chicago www.nsf.gov/dms and for the Directorate of Education and •Michael Tait (University of California San Diego), Human Resources at www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=ehr. Carnegie Mellon University To receive periodic updates, subscribe to the DMSNEWS listserv by •Jesse Thorner (Emory University), Stanford Univer- following the directions at www.nsf.gov/mps/dms/about.jsp. sity

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•Nathaniel Trask (Brown University), Sandia Na- tional Laboratory Waclaw Szymanski (1949– •Linh Truong (Princeton University), Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016) •Kurt Vinhage (Pennsylvania State University), Uni- Waclaw Szymanski, a func- versity of Chicago tional analyst who also did work •Preston Wake (University of Chicago), University of in ethnomathematics, died Au- California Los Angeles gust 7, 2016, at the age of sixty- •Kimberly Weston (Carnegie Mellon University), six. He received his PhD in 1974 University of Texas at Austin from the Institute of Mathemat- •Dan Wilson (University of California Santa Barbara), ics, Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Pittsburgh and taught in Poland, Mexico, •Jason Xu (University of Washington), University of Canada, and at Indiana Univer- California Los Angeles sity before joining the faculty •Letao Zhang (Rice University), Stony Brook Univer- at West Chester University in sity Waclaw Szymanski 1985, where he spent most of his career. His research in functional —NSF announcement analysis received international recognition; Japanese mathematician Fumio Kuro coined the term “Szymanski Family” for certain mathematical objects, studied by Szy- B. H. Neumann Awards Given manski, that are related to von Neumann algebras. The Australian Mathematics Trust has honored three Photo Credits mathematics teachers with B. H. Neumann Awards for Photo of Subhash Khot is courtesy of the John D. and service to the mathematics profession. The honorees are: Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. •Lim Chong Keang, New Era College, Selangor, Malaysia Photos of the Davidson Fellows are courtesy of the Da- •Greg Gamble, University of Western Australia vidson Institute. •Andrew Kepert, University of Newcastle. Photo of Seymour Papert is courtesy of L. Barry Hether- The awards honor Bernhard H. Neumann, who supported ington. mathematics and mathematics teaching at all levels in Photo of Waclaw Szymanski is courtesy of Lin Tan, West Australia. Chester University. Photo of Maksym Radziwill is ©The Mathematisches Forsc- —From an Australian Mathematics Trust announcement hungsinstitut Oberwolfach. Seymour Papert (1928–2016) Seymour Papert died on July 31, 2016. He was known worldwide for his innovative approaches to education and for the use of technology in education. Papert helped develop Logo®, a programming language for children; he was co-director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab; and he cofounded MIT’s Media Lab. He was born in Seymour Papert at the South Africa and earned his Learning & Common first doctorate in 1952 from Sense Society of Minds the University of Witwa- Symposium in 1988. tersrand. Papert later moved to England and earned his second PhD from the Univer- sity of Cambridge in 1959 under the direction of Frank Smithies. Papert retired in 1998 but was still very active in education, especially in his new home state of Maine, where he helped establish a program to give each seventh and eighth grader in the state a laptop. Yet he was not one to treat the computer as a panacea, writing in 1980 against “the computer being used to program the child” (Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas).

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