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Mathematics People NEWS Mathematics People Mann Receives Speh Awarded Duszenko Award Noether Lectureship Kathryn Mann of Cornell University Birgit Speh of Cornell University has has been awarded the 2019 Kamil been named the 2020 Noether Lec- Duszenko Award for her work in turer by the Association for Women topology, geometry, geometric group in Mathematics (AWM) and the AMS. theory, dynamics, and other areas She will deliver the prize lectures at of mathematics. Her work involves the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meet- actions of infinite groups on mani- ings. folds and the moduli spaces of such Speh is known for her work on the actions: character varieties, spaces of representation theory of reductive Kathryn Mann flat bundles or foliations, and spaces Birgit Speh Lie groups and its relationship to of left-invariant orders on groups. automorphic forms and the coho- Some of her work involves the relationship between the mology of arithmetic groups. Her research has explored algebraic and topological structure of diffeomorphism and connections between unitary representations, automorphic homeomorphism groups, the large-scale geometry of such forms, and the geometry of locally symmetric spaces. In groups (e.g. subgroup distortion and dynamical conse- recent work Speh has studied restrictions of representations quences of this), and rigidity phenomena for group actions, of reductive groups to noncompact reductive subgroups. often arising from some geometric structure. Mann received This work on “symmetry breaking” has led, in joint work her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2014 under with Kobayashi, to proofs of conjectures of Gross–Prasad the supervision of Benson Farb. She has held positions at for some pairs of orthogonal groups. the University of California, Berkeley, the Mathematical Speh received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), and Brown University, of Technology in 1977 under the supervision of Bertram and a visiting position at the Institut de Mathématiques de Kostant. In her thesis she classified the unitary representa- Jussieu. Her honors include the Mary Ellen Rudin Young tions of low-dimensional general linear groups and then Researcher Award (2017), an NSF Postdoctoral Research introduced, in her early work, a special class of unitary rep- Fellowship (2016–2019), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship resentations of general linear groups over the real numbers (2019), an NSF Career Award (2019), and the AWM Bir- that now bears her name. She held postdoctoral positions man Research Prize in Topology and Geometry (2019). at the University of Chicago and the University of Wup- She enjoys spending time outdoors, particularly hiking, pertal before joining the faculty at Cornell University in biking, and rowing. 1980. In 1983 she became the first woman to earn tenure The Duszenko Award is given by the Wrocław Math- in the Cornell University Department of Mathematics. She ematicians Foundation (WMF) for outstanding work or is currently the Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics research that has significantly contributed to the deepening at Cornell. Her honors include a Sloan Fellowship (1981) of knowledge and further progress in the field of mathemat- and a Humboldt Research Award (1996). She has been an ics. It was founded in honor of Kamil Duszenko, a young invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathemati- mathematician who died of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cians in Madrid (2006). She was a member of the inaugural at the age of twenty-eight. It is given at least every two years class of Fellows of the AMS (2013). in the fields of mathematics and hematology. The AWM established the Emmy Noether Lectures in 1980 to honor women who have made fundamental and —From a WMF announcement sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. —From an AWM announcement NOVEMBER 2019 NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 1731 Mathematics People NEWS interface of probability, the theory of algorithms, and statis- Sarnak Awarded tical physics. He has made major advances in the fields of the stochastic block model, formalizations of the one-step Sylvester Medal replica symmetry-breaking heuristic, and sharp analysis of Peter Sarnak of the Institute for Ad- Glauber dynamics. Sly received his PhD in statistics from vanced Study has been awarded the the University of California, Berkeley, in 2009 under the 2019 Sylvester Medal of the Royal supervision of Elchanan Mossel. He was a postdoctoral Society for “transformational contri- fellow at Microsoft Research (2009–2011) and a member butions across number theory, com- of the Berkeley statistics department (2011–2016). He has binatorics, analysis and geometry.” been on the faculty at Princeton since 2016. He received a According to the citation, Sarnak “is Sloan Research Fellowship in 2012 and a MacArthur Fel- widely recognized internationally as lowship in 2018. The Loève Prize is awarded every two years one of the leading analytic number to recognize outstanding contributions by researchers in probability who are under forty-five years of age. It carries Peter Sarnak theorists of his generation. His early work on the existence of cusp forms a cash award of US$30,000. led to the disproof of a conjecture of Selberg. He has ob- tained the strongest known bounds towards the Ramanujan —David Aldous conjectures for sparse graphs, and he was one of the first to exploit connections between certain questions of theo- retical physics and analytic number theory. There are fun- Caspers Awarded damental contributions to arithmetical quantum chaos, a Zemánek Prize term which he introduced, and to the relationship between random matrix theory and the zeros of L-functions. His Martijn Caspers of Delft University work on subconvexity for Rankin–Selberg L-functions led of Technology has been awarded to the resolution of Hilbert’s eleventh problem.” the second Jaroslav and Barbara Sarnak received his PhD from Stanford University in Zemánek Prize for his achievements 1980. He has been associated with the Courant Institute of in functional analysis, with special Mathematics of New York University, Stanford University, emphasis on operator theory. He and Princeton University. His honors and awards include received his PhD in 2012 at the Rad- the SIAM Pólya Prize (1998), the Ostrowski Prize (2001), boud University Nijmegen under the AMS Levi L. Conant Prize (2003), the AMS Frank Nel- Erik Koelink. His research interests son Cole Prize (2005), the MAA Lester Ford Prize (2012), Martijn Caspers are in quantum groups, operator and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2014). He is a member algebras, operator spaces and their of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Na- approximation properties, noncommutative Lp-spaces, tional Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the American and harmonic analysis on noncommutative spaces. When Philosophical Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. he’s not working on mathematics, Caspers enjoys playing The Sylvester Medal is awarded annually for an outstand- chamber music on the French horn. ing researcher in the field of mathematics and carries a cash The Zemánek Prize was founded by the Institute of award of ₤2,000 (approximately US$2,400). Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN) to encourage research in functional analysis, operator —From a Royal Society announcement theory, and related topics. The prize recognizes the work of mathematicians under thirty-five years of age who have made important contributions to the field. The mone- Sly Awarded Loève Prize tary amount of the prize is 13,000 PLN (approximately Allan Sly of Princeton University has US$3,300). More information about the prize is available been awarded the Loève Prize for his at https://www.impan.pl/en/events/awards/b-and research in discrete probability the- -j-zemanek-prize. ory and its applications to problems from statistical physics, theoretical —From an IMPAN announcement computer science, and theoretical statistics. He is best known for the use of deep probabilistic methods to solve long-standing problems at the Allan Sly 1732 NOTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 66, NUMBER 10 Mathematics People NEWS cipients of the G. de B. Robinson Award for outstanding 2019 AIM Alexanderson contributions to the Canadian Journal of Mathematics or the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin. They were honored for their Award paper “Stackings and the W-cycles Conjecture,” Canadian Paul Bruillard of Expedia Group, Siu-Hung Ng of Louisi- Mathematical Bulletin 60 (2017), no. 3. ana State University, Eric Rowell of Texas A&M University, Mikhail Karpukhin of the Uni- and Zhenghan Wang of the University of California, Santa versity of California, Irvine, has been Barbara, have been awarded the 2019 Gerald Alexanderson awarded the 2019 Doctoral Prize. Award of the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) for He works in the area of geometric their paper “Rank-finiteness for modular categories,” Jour- spectral theory. According to the nal of the American Mathematical Society 29 (2016), no. 3. citation, “His thesis consists of a se- The work began at an AIM workshop “Classifying Fusion ries of striking results among which Categories” in 2012. The award recognizes outstanding [are] an isoperimetric inequality for research articles arising from AIM research activities that the first Laplace eigenvalue on non- orientable surfaces extending cele- have been published within the past three years. Mikhail Karpukhin brated results of Yang–Yau and Li– —From an AIM announcement Yau from the 80’s, new upper bounds on the Steklov eigenvalues of a manifold—best known result to date in the case of a surface of given genus and Prizes of the Canadian boundary components, and explicit upper bounds on all eigenvalues of the Dirichlet–Neumann map for differential Mathematical Society forms on a manifold of arbitrary dimension.” The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) has awarded a —From CMS announcements number of prizes for 2019. Tiina Hohn of MacEwan University has been awarded the 2019 Adrien Pouliot Award for her outstanding contri- MAA Awards Presented butions to mathematics education.
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