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Mathematics People people.qxp 7/12/99 8:52 AM Page 910 Mathematics People and mathematics at the University of New Mexico and then Yuri Manin Awarded pursued postdoctoral studies in philosophy, first at the Uni- Rolf Schock Prize versity of California, Berkeley, and then at UCLA. After mov- ing to Sweden he received the Fil.Lic. degree in philosophy The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the from Stockholm University in 1964 and a Ph.D. from names of recipients of the Rolf Schock Prizes. These in- Uppsala University in 1968. His dissertation, “Logics with- ternational prizes honor contributions to mathematics, out Existence Assumptions”, was an early work in what is logic and philosophy, visual arts, and music. The prizes, now known as free logic and has often been cited by schol- awarded every two years, amount to 400,000 Swedish ars in the field. Schock wrote many other works in logic crowns (approximately US$50,000). and the philosophy of science. He never held a permanent YURI MANIN of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics appointment, although he was a lecturer in Sweden for brief in Bonn, Germany, has been awarded the 1999 prize in periods, and for many years the Royal Institute of Tech- mathematics “for his important work in algebraic geome- nology provided him with a base. He was also a painter, try and mathematical physics, in particular for those fun- photographer, and traveler. After his death in an accident damental papers he has recently published about quantum on December 5, 1986, it came to light that he had left a groups and mirror symmetry.” considerable fortune, which he had inherited from his fa- Manin has published mathematical papers covering ther. Schock bequeathed half of the funds for prizes in the many fundamental results, including: the proof of a vari- arts and sciences. ant of a conjecture by Mordell, counterexamples to the Lüroth theorem in higher dimensions, the study of dio- —From a Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences phantine equations, p-adic analysis and modular forms in announcement pure mathematics, the study of solutions of Yang-Mills equations and their relations to 4-dimensional manifolds, the theory of quantum groups, and mirror symmetry in Rockafellar Wins mathematical physics. Yuri Manin was born in 1937 in Simferopol in the for- von Neumann Prize mer Soviet Union and is a Russian citizen. He studied mathematics at Moscow University and received his Ph.D. R. TYRRELL ROCKAFELLAR of the University of Washington has degree in 1960 from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics been awarded the 1999 John von Neumann Theory Prize, in Moscow. He was professor of mathematics at Moscow the highest prize given in the field of operations research University from 1965 to 1991 and has been at the Max- and management science. Planck-Institute für Mathematik in Bonn since 1993. The $5,000 prize, awarded by the Institute for Opera- tions Research and the Management Sciences, was given About Rolf Schock to Rockafellar “for his fundamental contributions to the Rolf Schock was born in France on April 5, 1933. His fam- theoretical foundations of optimization, including convex ily had emigrated from Germany in 1931; they later set- optimization, nonsmooth analysis, and stochastic pro- tled in the United States. He studied geology, psychology, gramming.” His principal research interests include de- 910 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 46, NUMBER 8 people.qxp 7/12/99 8:52 AM Page 911 Mathematics People velopment of optimization methodology for modeling Lebowitz Receives AAAS large-scale problems in decision or control over time, pos- sibly with stochastic elements; numerical techniques for Scientific Freedom and solving such problems; and associated innovations in math- ematical analysis. Using the notions of epi- and proto- Responsibility Award derivatives, he created a systematic calculus for dealing with JOEL LEBOWITZ of Rutgers University has been awarded the nonsmooth functions and, with Roger Wets, promoted epi- 1999 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award by the convergence as a systematic device for modeling and an- American Association for the Advancement of Science alyzing the way optimization problems change. He has (AAAS). The award is given to scientists who have acted to used this methodology to extend and reshape the theory protect the public’s health, safety, or welfare; who have fo- of differentiation for set-valued functions. cused public attention on important potential effects of sci- R. Tyrrell Rockafellar received both his bachelor’s de- ence and technology on society by participating in public gree in 1957 and his Ph.D. in 1963 from Harvard Univer- policy debates; or who have established important new sity. During the academic year 1957–58 he held a Fulbright precedents in carrying out the social responsibilities of or Scholarship at the University of Bonn. He has taught at the defending the professional freedom of scientists and en- University of Texas, Austin (1963–65), and has been at the gineers. University of Washington since 1966, where he now teaches Lebowitz was honored “for his tireless devotion to the jointly in the departments of mathematics and applied rights of scientists in oppressive regimes throughout the mathematics. He has held visiting positions at various in- world and his extraordinary creativity in finding ways to stitutions, including the Mathematics Institute in Copen- help these scientists survive their ordeal.” In 1979, as pres- hagen, the International Institute of Applied Systems Analy- ident of the New York Academy of Sciences, Lebowitz sis in Vienna, Princeton University, and the universities of mounted a strong appeal on behalf of persecuted scientists, Grenoble, Colorado, Pisa, Paris-Dauphine, and Pau (France). particularly in the former Soviet Union. He met with dis- His numerous honors include the Dantzig Prize, jointly sident scientists in the Soviet Union on several occasions awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathe- and provided a written forum for the results of seminars matics (SIAM) and the Mathematical Programming Society held by the dissidents. He has also advocated for the rights (1982), the von Neumann Lecture Prize of SIAM (1992), and of scientists in Argentina, South Korea, Turkey, and Myan- the Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research mar. and the Management Sciences (1998, shared with Roger Wets). —From an AAAS announcement —Elaine Kehoe Mathematicians Elected to SIAM von Kármán Prize American Academy of Arts Awarded and Sciences Six mathematicians have been elected to membership in The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. They has awarded its Theodore von Kármán Prize for 1999 to are: LEO BREIMAN (University of California, Berkeley), DAVID STUART S. ANTMAN of the University of Maryland, College Park, JERISON (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), HARRY and JOHN M. BALL of Oxford University. Antman was hon- KESTEN (Cornell University), ALAN S. PERELSON (Los Alamos Na- ored for his work on viscosity of solids and Ball for work tional Laboratory), THOMAS SPENCER (Institute for Advanced on microstructure and the austenite-martensite transition. Study), and JEAN E. TAYLOR (Rutgers University). The von Kármán Prize is awarded every five years for a The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was notable application of mathematics to mechanics and/or founded in 1780 to foster the development of knowledge the engineering sciences made during the five to ten years as a means of promoting the public interest and social preceding the award. The award may be given either for a progress. The membership of the academy is elected and single notable achievement or for a collection of such represents distinction and achievement in a range of in- achievements. The award consists of a $1,000 cash prize tellectual disciplines: mathematical and physical sciences, and a hand-calligraphed certificate. The members of the biological sciences, social arts and sciences, and humani- selection committee for the 1999 award were Philippe ties and fine arts. Ciarlet, Joseph B. Keller, and Jerrold E. Marsden (chair). —From an American Academy of Arts and Sciences —From a SIAM announcement announcement SEPTEMBER 1999 NOTICES OF THE AMS 911 people.qxp 7/12/99 8:52 AM Page 912 Mathematics People awards are named. The Karl Menger Memorial prize winners were as follows: First Place ($1,000): AMIT KUMAR SABHARWAL, Exploration and Generalization of Ring and Lo- calization Properties Associated to GKM Graphs, Senior, Detroit Country Day School, Beverly Hills, Michigan. Second Place ($500 each): ANDREW CHI, Count- ing Organic Compounds, Sophomore, Terre Haute South Vigo High School, Terre Haute, In- diana; JENNIFER LYNN PELKA, Hamiltonicity of Graphs of Self-Complementary Degree Se- quences, Junior, Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida. Third Place ($250 each): CHING-TANG CHEN, Centers, Euler Line, Feuerbach Circle and Con- jugate Euler Line of a Triangle, Freshman, Chien-Tai Senior High School, Taiwan, Miao-Li, AMS Menger Award winners. Back row, left to right: Jack Bewley, Republic of China; C. ANDREW MCMANUS, Elliptic Adam Bryant, Jason Loy, Bryce Roberts, John Pope. Front row, left to Curves over Finite Fields, Junior, South West- right: Julian Palmore, chairman of judges’ panel, Amit Sabharwal, ern High School, Hanover, Pennsylvania; JENNIFER Andrew Chi, Jennifer Pelka, Jennifer Walk, Heidi Williams, ROSE WALK, Which Factors Affect Noninsulin- C. Andrew McManus, Ching-Tang
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