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Mathematics People Mathematics People physics, and molecular biology.” According to the prize 2016–2017 citation, “Vazquez is a pioneer in an emerging field called Centennial DNA topology, which applies pure math to untangle the biological mysteries of DNA. Application areas of her Fellowship Awarded research include cancer treatment, drug design, under- The AMS has awarded its Centennial standing genome rearrangements after radiation damage Fellowship for 2016–2017 to Eyal or in cancer, and gaining insight into how genomes pack- Lubetzky. The fellowship carries a age in viruses and within cells and into how viral DNA stipend of US$89,000, an expense (e.g., retroviruses, such as HIV) integrates into the host Photo courtesy of Eyal Lubetzky. allowance of US$8,900, and a com- genome.” She received her PhD in mathematical biology Eyal Lubetzky plimentary Society membership for from Florida State University in 2000. She has been the one year. recipient of NSF CAREER (2011) and PECASE (2012) awards Lubetzky is associate professor at the Courant In- and is passionate about working to increase diversity in stitute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. the mathematical sciences at all levels. Mariel is married His main research interests are probability theory and combinatorics, with an emphasis on interacting particle to Javier Arsuaga, also a mathematical biologist with deep systems, random networks, and stochastic processes commitment to increasing diversity in the mathematical arising from statistical physics. He joined the Courant sciences. Together with their two children they enjoy fre- Institute in fall 2014, after being a senior researcher in quent visits to San Francisco and its museums, and love the Theory Group of Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, exploring the nearby Sierra Nevada. where he had spent seven years, starting as a postdoctoral The prize is awarded every two years in honor of the researcher. He earned his PhD in mathematics from Tel- legacy of David H. Blackwell and Richard A. Tapia, two Aviv University in 2007 and received the Rollo Davidson distinguished mathematical scientists who have been Prize in 2013. He plans to use the Centennial Fellowship inspirations to more than a generation of African Ameri- to visit Princeton University during the 2016–2017 aca- can, Latino/Latina, and Native American students and demic year. Please note: Information about the competition for the professionals in the mathematical sciences. The prize 2017–2018 AMS Centennial Fellowships will be published recognizes a mathematician who has contributed signifi- in the “Mathematics Opportunities” section of an upcom- cantly to research in his or her field of expertise and who ing issue of the Notices. has served as a role model for mathematical scientists and students from underrepresented minority groups or —Allyn Jackson has contributed in other significant ways to addressing the problem of the underrepresentation of minorities in math. Past recipients of the prize are: Vazquez Awarded •Arlie Petters (2002) 2016 Blackwell- •Rodrigo Ba˜nuelos (2004) •William Massey (2006) Tapia Prize •Juan Meza (2008) Trachette Jackson (2010) Mariel Vazquez of the University • Ricardo Cortez (2012) of California Davis has been cho- • sen as the recipient of the 2016 •Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver (2014) Blackwell-Tapia Prize for her “im- portant contributions at the in- —From a National Institute for Mathematical Mariel Vazquez terface of mathematics, polymer and Biological Synthesis announcement JUNE/JULY 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 671 Mathematics People Fauci received her PhD in mathematics from the Cou- Dani Awarded Michler Prize rant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York Univer- Pallavi Dani of Louisiana State sity, under the direction of Charles Peskin. She joined the University has been awarded the faculty of Tulane immediately thereafter and is currently 2016–2017 Ruth I. Michler Memo- Pendergraft Nola Lee Haynes Professor of Mathematics. rial Prize of the Association for She has held visiting positions at the University of Utah Women in Mathematics (AWM) and New York University. She has been the recipient of and Cornell University. Dani was a Sloan Fellowship and was an invited speaker at the selected for “her wide range of Eighth International Congress on Industrial and Applied mathematical talents and the close Mathematics (ICIAM) in Beijing, China, in 2015. She is connection of her work with the a fellow of SIAM and has served on editorial boards of research of several mathematics several journals. faculty at Cornell.” Her research The Sonia Kovalevsky Lectureship honors significant Pallavi Dani is in the area of geometric group contributions by women to applied or computational theory. In particular, she studies quasi-isometry invari- mathematics. ants of groups, such as Dehn functions and divergence, with a special interest in hyperbolic groups and CAT(0) —From an AWM announcement groups. More recently she has been working on the quasi- isometry and commensurability classification of right- angled Coxeter groups. At Cornell she will be working with Chvátal and Lasserre Awarded Tim Riley on questions related to subgroup distortion in hyperbolic groups and filling invariants in subgroups of von Neumann Prize nonpositively curved groups, with Jason Manning on the Vaˇsek Chvátal of Concor- theory of special cube complexes, as well as with Martin dia University and Jean Ber- Kassabov and Justin Moore. nard Lasserre of CNRS have Dani received her PhD in mathematics from the Uni- been awarded the John von versity of Chicago in 2005 under the direction of Benson Neumann Theory Prize for Farb. She has been a visiting assistant professor at the 2015. The citation reads in University of Oklahoma and visiting research associate part: “This award recognizes (2008–2009) at Emory University before joining the faculty their seminal and profound of Louisiana State, where she is currently associate profes- contributions to the theoreti- sor in the Department of Mathematics. cal foundations of optimiza- The Michler Prize grants a midcareer woman in aca- tion. Through their work in demia a residential fellowship in the Cornell University the domains of integer pro- Mathematics Department without teaching obligations. gramming and polynomial Photo by David Ward. Vaˇsek Chvátal optimization, respectively, —From an AWM announcement Chvátal and Lasserre devel- oped the mathematical theory and corresponding computa- Fauci Awarded Kovalevsky tional approaches to tackle hard computational problems Lectureship that compute strengthened Lisa J. Fauci of Tulane University bounds via tractable convex has been chosen as the AWM-SIAM relaxations. The notions of Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer for 2016 Chvátal rank and the Lasserre by the Association for Women in hierarchy each have impact Mathematics (AWM) and the Society well beyond their initial re- for Industrial and Applied Math- search spheres and are simul- ematics (SIAM). She was honored taneously elegant mathematics Jean Bernard Lasserre “for her pioneering contributions and the foundations for new to mathematical and computational algorithmic approaches.” modeling of aquatic locomotion, Vaˇsek Chvátal was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in microorganism motility, and fluid 1946, emigrated to Canada in 1968, where he received his Lisa J. Fauci dynamics of human reproduction. PhD from the University of Waterloo, and became a Que- Her career combines rigorous asymptotic analysis and becois patriot in 1971. He is the author of a short story, biological data to validate computational models, a his- “Déjá Vu,” which was published in Prism magazine in tory of service to the mathematical community, and a 1973. lasting legacy of mentoring early career scientists.” Her Jean Bernard Lasserre was born in France in 1953 and work involves collaborations with applied mathematicians, received his PhD in 1978 from Paul Sabatier University, as computational scientists, and experimental biologists. well as a Doctorat d’Etat in 1984. He is the author of about 672 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 63, NUMBER 6 Mathematics People 160 papers and author or coauthor of eight books, as well and friendship in 2001. At that time, we were thinking as coeditor of two more. He was awarded the Lagrange about the mechanism of mirror symmetry from comple- Prize in 2009 and is a fellow of the Society for Industrial mentary points of views. After bumping into each other on and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). a train platform in the Black Forest, we became convinced The John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded annu- that the two points of view fit together like missing pieces ally to a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) who of a puzzle. We rather quickly became certain that we were has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory on the right track. It has been, however, a long struggle in operations research and the management sciences. It is with many technical hurdles to overcome. In the end, the the highest prize given in the field. It carries a cash award scope of the project surprised even us. We are very grate- of US$5,000. ful to the mathematics community which supported our ideas even in the early days when it was not clear to the —From an INFORMS announcement world whether or not our ideas would bear fruit.” The awards will be presented at the 2016 Clay Research Conference at the University of Oxford in September 2016. 2016 Clay Research Awards Presented —From a CMI announcement Mark Gross of the University of Cambridge and Bernd Siebert
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