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equations, quadratic forms and elliptic curves. His work Munshi Awarded ICTP-IMU also makes clear that he is far from done, and that we Ramanujan Prize should expect to see many more interesting results from him in the future.” Ritabrata Munshi of the Indian Munshi received his PhD from in Statistical Institute and the Tata In- 2006 under the direction of Andrew Wiles. His honors in- stitute of Fundamental Research has clude the 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science been awarded the 2018 Ramanujan and Technology in mathematical sciences and the 2017 Prize for Young Mathematicians Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences. from Developing Countries for his The Ramanujan Prize is awarded annually to a young outstanding work in number theory. researcher from a developing country. The prize carries The prize is awarded by the Abdus a cash award of US$15,000, and the recipient is invited to Salam International Centre for Theo- deliver a lecture at ICTP. retical Physics (ICTP), the Interna- Ritabrata Munshi tional Mathematical Union (IMU), —From an ICTP announcement and the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. The prize citation reads: “Ritabrata Munshi has made profound contributions to analytic number theory, in par- Sisto Receives 2018 Duszenko ticular to the study of analytic properties of L-functions and automorphic forms. L-functions were defined in Award great generality by Robert Langlands, and while much is Alessandro Sisto of ETH Zürich known about them from the representation theoretic and has been named the recipient of the arithmetic geometry points of view, their deeper analytic 2018 Duszenko Award for his sig- properties are largely unknown. nificant contributions to the study “In recent years, the work of Henryk Iwaniec and his of generalizations of hyperbolic collaborators has started to shed light on growth proper- groups. According to the prize cita- ties of these L-functions in the case of the group GL(2), tion, “he proved deep and interest- proving what are now called subconvexity theorems. These ing results, addressing wide range of theorems, which are actually estimates for the L-function questions and using wide range of on the ‘critical’ line, represent progress towards the proof techniques: random walks, bounded of the Lindelof hypothesis, which is one of the big open Alessandro Sisto problems in analytic number theory, perhaps second only cohomology, embedding obstruc- to the Riemann hypothesis. tions.” He received his PhD from the University of Oxford “Munshi takes these techniques to new levels by prov- in 2013 under the direction of Cornelia Drutu. He was a ing subconvexity theorems for some L-functions that postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zürich before becoming an come from GL(3). In a series of remarkable papers he assistant professor. In 2018 he co-organized the Young has extended the reach of the classical Hardy-Littlewood- Geometric Group Theory conference in Les Diablerets, Ramanujan ‘circle method’ to obtain sharp subconvexity Switzerland. He has written papers on various topics in estimates for L-functions arising from cusp forms on geometric group theory, as well as other fields. When not higher rank groups. doing , he climbs. “The progress from GL(2) to GL(3) is very hard won and The Duszenko Award is given by the Wrocław Mathema- involves a lot of technical prowess as well as ingenuity. ticians Foundation (WMF) for outstanding work or research While many authors have established some special cases, that has significantly contributed to the deepening of Ritabrata’s results are perhaps the most far-reaching and knowledge and further progress in the field of mathemat- most general. In addition, he has made striking contribu- ics. It was founded in honor of Kamil Duszenko, a young tions to other areas in number theory like Diophantine mathematician who died of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

1302 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 10 Mathematics People NEWS at the age of twenty-eight. It will be given at least every symmetry protected topological phases. These ideas have two years in the fields of mathematics and hematology. close connections to anomalies in .” The medals are awarded to scientists who have made —From a WMF announcement significant contributions to theoretical physics and carry a cash award of US$5,000. 2018 Dirac Medals Awarded —From an ICTP announcement The Dirac Medals for 2018 have been awarded by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) to 2018 Poincaré Prizes Awarded Subir Sachdev of Harvard University, Dam Thanh Son of the University of Chicago, and Xiao-Gang Wen of the The International Association of Massachusetts Institute of Technology “for their indepen- (IAMP) has awarded the 2018 Henri Poincaré Prizes for dent contributions towards understanding novel phases mathematical physics to of Princ- in strongly interacting many-body systems, introducing eton University, of , and original transdisciplinary techniques.” Giovanni Gallavotti of Universitá di Roma La Sapienza. According to the prize citations, Sachdev “has made Aizenman was honored “for his pioneering contributions to many areas of theoretical con- seminal contributions to quantum densed matter physics. Of particular importance were the field theory, , development of the theory of quantum critical phenomena and disordered systems in which in insulators, superconductors and metals; the theory he pioneered innovative techniques of spin-liquid states of quantum antiferromagnets and that demonstrate the beautiful and the theory of fractionalized phases of matter; the study effective interplay between physi- of novel deconfinement phase transitions; the theory of cal ideas, mathematical analysis, quantum matter without quasiparticles; and the applica- geometric concepts, and probabil- tion of many of these ideas to a priori unrelated problems ity theory.” Deift was recognized in black hole physics, including a concrete model of non- “for his seminal contributions to Fermi liquids.” Michael Aizenman Schrödinger operators, inverse scat- Son “was the first to understand tering theory, nonlinear waves, as- that gauge/gravity duality could ymptotic analysis of Fredholm and be used to address basic questions Toeplitz determinants, universality in strongly interacting many-body in random matrix theory, and his problems from cold trapped atoms deep analysis of integrable mod- to the quark-gluon plasma. He was els.” Gallavotti was honored “for able to show that one could compute his outstanding contributions to transport coefficients, such as vis- equilibrium and non-equilibrium cosity and conductivity, analytically statistical mechanics, quantum field in these systems, and that strong theory, classical mechanics, and coupling typically gives rise to a chaotic systems, including, in par- Dam Thanh Son bound on these coefficients. More Percy Deift ticular, the renormalization theory recently, he has argued for the emergence of a Dirac for interacting fermionic systems fermion at the half-filled Landau level, work which has and the fluctuation relation for the stimulated rapid developments in our understanding of large deviation functional of entropy three-dimensional gauge theories.” production.” Wen “has pioneered the concept Semyon Dyatlov of the Univer- of topological order as a new princi- sity of California Berkeley and the ple to understand gapped quantum Massachusetts Institute of Technol- systems. He found that states with ogy was selected the recipient of the topological order contain non-trivial 2018 Early Career Award of the IAMP boundary excitations, and he devel- “for the introduction and the proof oped chiral Luttinger theory for the of the fractal uncertainty principle, boundary states of quantum Hall Giovanni which has important applications to systems. He realized that quantum Gallavotti quantum chaos and to observability Hall states fall outside of the usual and control of quantum systems.” Landau paradigm for characterizing The Poincaré Prizes, sponsored by the Daniel Iagol- Xiao-Gang Wen phases of matter, and he showed nitzer Foundation, recognize outstanding contributions how to classify them. He unveiled that lay the groundwork for novel developments in deep connections between topological order and entangle- mathematical physics. The prizes recognize and support ment. More recently, he has developed the concept of young people of exceptional promise who have already

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made outstanding contributions to the field. The prize is awarded MAA Awards Presented every three years at the International The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) presented Congress on Mathematical Physics. several awards for writing and education at its 2018 sum- The Early Career Award, sponsored mer MathFest. by Springer Publishing Company, The Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for excellent math- is given in recognition of a single ematical writing published in Mathematics Magazine achievement in mathematical phys- was presented to Fumiko Futamura and Robert Lehr ics and is reserved for scientists of Southwestern University for their joint paper, “A New under the age of thirty-five. Perspective on Finding the Viewpoint.” Semyon Dyatlov —From IAMP announcements The Trevor Evans Award for excellent writing for an undergraduate audience published in Math Horizons was presented to James Propp of the University of Massachu- 2018 Computer-Aided setts, Lowell, for his article “The Paintball Party.” The Paul R. Halmos–Lester R. Ford Awards for excep- Verification Award tional writing published in The American Mathematical Monthly were presented to the following: Paul E. Becker The Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) Award is given and Jennifer Ulrich of Pennsylvania State University for fundamental contributions to the field of computer- Behrend, Martin Derka of Car Media 2.0, and Sheridan aided verification. Six researchers were selected in 2018 Houghten of Brock University for their article “Build a for their outstanding contributions to the enhancement and scalability of model checking by introducing bounded Sporadic Group in Your Basement”; to Maria Deijfen of model checking based on Boolean satisfiability (SAT) for Stockholm University, Alexander E. Holroyd of the Uni- hardware (BMC) and software (CBMC). They are: versity of Cambridge, and James B. Martin of St. Hugh’s • Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University College, University of Oxford, for their article “Friendly • Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Frogs, Stable Marriage, and the Magic of Invariance”; to • Edmund M. Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University Francis E. Su of Harvey Mudd College for his article • Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford “Mathematics for Human Flourishing”; and to Michael • Flavio Lerda, Carnegie Mellon University Barnsley of Australian National University and Andrew • Yunshan Zhu, Synopsys Vince of the University of Florida for their article “Self- The CAV award carries a cash prize of US$10,000, Similar Polygonal Tiling.” shared equally among recipients. The George Pólya Awards for exceptional papers pub- lished in the College Mathematics Journal were presented —From a CAV announcement to Ben Blum-Smith of TED and Samuel Coskey of Boise State University for their article “Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials: History’s First Whiff of Ga- lois Theory”; and to Stephen Kaczkowski of the South Perfekt Awarded Inaugural Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics for his article “Mathematical Models for Global Mean Sea Zemánek Prize Level Rise.” Karl-Mikael Perfekt of the University of Reading has The Daniel Solow Author’s Award for authors of un- been named the first recipient of the Jaroslav and Bar- dergraduate teaching materials was presented to the bara Zemánek Prize, given in functional analysis with an following for their coauthored textbook, Introduction to emphasis on operator theory. Perfekt was honored for his Statistical Investigations: Nathan Tintle of Dordt Col- “essential input in a variety of topics in operator theory,” lege; Beth Chance, Allan Rossman, and Soma Roy, all especially his “breakthrough work on spectral theory of of California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; singular integral operators, in particular on the essential George Cobb of Mt. Holyoke College; and Todd Swanson spectrum of the double layer operators, and his penetrat- and Jill VanderStoep of Hope College. ing study of ‘multiplicative’ Hankel operators.” The Henry L. Alder Awards honor beginning college The prize was founded by the Institute of Mathematics or university faculty members whose teaching has been of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN) to encourage re- highly effective and successful in undergraduate math- search in functional analysis, operator theory, and related ematics. Chad Awtrey of Elon University has mentored a topics. The prize recognizes the work of mathematicians total of thirty-seven undergraduates and seven high school under thirty-five years of age who have made important students on thirty-three different research projects; these contributions to the field. The monetary amount of the students have given sixty-five presentations at national prize is 12,000 PLN (approximately US$3,200). More infor- and regional meetings and have coauthored seventeen mation about the prize is available at www.impan.pl/en/ research papers with Awtrey. David Clark of Grand Val- events/awards/b-and-j-zemanek-prize. ley State University has mentored twenty-two students, many of whom have received awards and grants for their —Nikolai Nikolski, University of Bordeaux work; is coauthoring a book on mathematical enrichment

1304 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 10 Mathematics People NEWS activities; and participates in MathPath, a summer math • Anastasia Chavez (University of California Berkeley), program for students ages eleven to fourteen. Mohamed University of California Davis Omar of Harvey Mudd College has created YouTube videos • William Chen (Pennsylvania State University), McGill to help students study for the GREs, has published several University articles on the teaching and learning of mathematics, and • Yi Chen (), Princeton University has mentored more than twenty-five undergraduates on • Michelle Chu (University of Texas at Austin), Univer- more than twenty research projects, several of which have sity of California Santa Barbara been published in top combinatorics and algebra research • Laure Flapan (University of California Los Angeles), journals. Northeastern University The Mary P. Dolciani Award was presented to Al Cuoco, • Robert Fraser (University of British Columbia), Uni- Distinguished Scholar at Education Development Center, versity of Edinburgh for his contributions to mathematics education, especially • Chris Gerig (University of California Berkeley), Harvard the highly original and highly mathematical nature of University these contributions to mathematics education and the • Julian Gold (University of California Los Angeles), national stature of his programs. Northwestern University The Annie and John Selden Prize for Research in Under- • Jeremy Hahn (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mas- graduate Mathematics Education, given for a significant sachusetts Institute of Technology record of published research in undergraduate math- • Kyle Hayden (Boston College), Columbia University ematics education, was presented to Elise Lockwood of • Samuel Hopkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technol- Oregon State University for her publication record and her ogy), University of Minnesota conclusions about the role of example-based reasoning • Sameer Iyer (Brown University), Princeton University that focuses on sets of outcomes in providing insights to • Ian Jauslin (University of Rome Sapienza), Princeton combinatorics tasks. University • William Johnson (University of California Berkeley), —From MAA announcements Fudan University • Daniel Kriz (Princeton University),Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology • Eric Larson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), NSF Postdoctoral Research Stanford University Fellowships Awarded • Xue Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Max Planck Institute The Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow- • Nicole Looper (Northwestern University), University ship Program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences of Cambridge (DMS) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) awards • Benjamin Lund (University of Georgia), Princeton fellowships each year for postdoctoral research in pure University mathematics, applied mathematics and operations re- • Krithika Manohar (University of Washington), Cali- search, and statistics. Following are the names of the fornia Institute of Technology fellowship recipients for 2018, together with their PhD • Matthew Mills (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), institutions (in parentheses) and the institutions at which Michigan State University they will use their fellowships. • Courtney Paquette (University of Washington), Uni- • Carolyn Abbott (University of Wisconsin-Madison), versity of Waterloo University of California Berkeley • Samuel Punshon-Smith (University of Maryland), • Hannah Alpert (Massachusetts Institute of Technol- Brown University ogy), The Ohio State University • David Rolnick (Massachusetts Institute of Technol- • Paul Apisa (University of Chicago), Yale University ogy), University of Pennsylvania • Dori Bejleri (Brown University), Massachusetts Insti- • Anna Romanov (University of Utah), University of tute of Technology Sydney • John Berman (University of Virginia), University of • Jonathan Rubin (University of Chicago), University of Texas at Austin California Los Angeles • Daniel Bernstein (North Carolina State University), • Sophie Spirkl (Princeton University), Rutgers Univer- Massachusetts Institute of Technology sity • Harold Blum (University of Michigan), University of • Jonathan Wang (University of Chicago), Massachu- Utah setts Institute of Technology • Sarah Cannon (Georgia Institute of Technology), Uni- • Jonathan Zhu (Harvard University), Princeton Uni- versity of California Berkeley versity • Charlotte Chan (University of Michigan), Princeton • Andrew Zucker (Carnegie Mellon University), Univer- University sité Paris Diderot • Ian Charlesworth (University of California Los An- geles), University of California Berkeley —NSF announcement

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Allison Gerk, St. Norbert College, “Columnaris Disease 2018 Pi Mu Epsilon Student and the Population Dynamics of Infected Fish.” Presentation Awards —From a Pi Mu Epsilon announcement Pi Mu Epsilon, the student mathematics honor society, awards outstanding student presentations given at the conference held in conjunction with the Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA) annual MathFest. In 2018 Photo credits the MathFest was held in Denver, Colorado. Photo of Ritabrata Munshi courtesy of Ritabrata Munshi. The AMS, the American Statistical Association, and Photo of Alessandro Sisto by Monika Krichel. the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics for Excellence in Photo of Dam Thanh Son copyright UChicago. Student Exposition or Research funded the Pi Mu Epsilon Photo of Xiao-Gang Wen courtesy of Xiao-Gang Wen. Photo of Percy Deift ©NYU Photo Bureau: Miller. Speaker Awards. The awardees, along with their institu- Photo of Giovanni Gallavotti courtesy of Giovanni Gallavotti. tions and the titles of their presentations, are: Photo of Semyon Dyatlov courtesy of Ali Hussain, MIT Math • Preston Biro, Texas A&M University, “A Statistical Ap- Department. proach to the Effect of Suspensions in the NFL” Photo of Michael Aizenman courtesy of Michael Aizenman. • Keller Blackwell, University of South Florida-Tampa, “Structural Properties of Twisted Hermitian Codes and Applications to Cryptography” • Kathleen Buch, Xavier University, “Optimizing Con- gressional Voting Districts Using a Genetic Algorithm” • William Craig, Virginia Institute of Technology, “Quiver Hall-Littlewood Functions and Kostka-Shoji Polynomials” • Brian Darrow Jr., Southern Connecticut State Univer- sity, “On Developing an Early Warning System” • Samuel Delatore, Youngstown State University, “A Not-So-Fair Guessing Game and the Math Behind It” • Anthony Dickson, Youngstown State University, “The Prime Number Theorem: A Historical Look at How Mathematicians Proved It” • Caroline Howell, Troy University, “Mapping Sound Waves in Octave” • Jacob Kirsch, Saint John’s University, “Image Recogni- tion Using Polynomial Regression and Artificial Neural Networks” • Robert Lehr, Southwestern University, “Perspective Drawing: How to Find the Immersion Point” • Katherine Mantych, Elmhurst College, “The Rational- Float Data Type” • Bridget Mueller-Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “New Songs in the Deep: A Passive Acoustic Analysis of the Temporal and Spatial Distribu- tion of Omura’s Whales (Balaenoptera omurai)” • Daniel Plummer, Howard University, “Bitcoin, Block- chain Technology and the Future of Commerce” • Henry Potts-Rubin, College of Wooster, “A Conven- tion for Drawing Knots and Links on the Real Projective Plane” • Victoria Robinson, University of Mississippi, “On a Generalization of the Fibonacci Sequence” • Bao Van, St. Norbert College, “Building Low Rank Matroids” The Council for Undergraduate Research Award for Outstanding Student Research was awarded to Vladimir Sworski, Cleveland State University, for “Problem 21: An Exploration of Dial Rings.” The Janet L. Andersen Award for Outstanding Student Exposition or Research in Mathematical or Computational Biology was awarded to

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