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Notices of The Mathematics People His research addresses a variety of topics, including the 2012–2013 AMS Centennial information content of quantum states, the physical Fellowship Awarded resources needed for quantum computers to surpass classical computers, and the barriers to solving computer The AMS has awarded its Cen- science’s vexing P versus NP question, that is, whether tennial Fellowship for 2012– every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by 2013 to Karin Melnick of the a computer can also be quickly solved by a computer. University of Maryland. The The Waterman Award is given annually to one or more fellowship carries a stipend of outstanding researchers under the age of thirty-five in any US$80,000, an expense allow- field of science or engineering supported by the NSF. The ance of US$8,000, and a com- prize consists of a medal and a US$1 million grant to be plimentary Society membership used over a five-year period for further advanced study for one year. in the awardee’s field. Karin Melnick was born and raised in Marin County, —From an NSF announcement California. She attended Reed Photo by Riza Falk. College in Portland, Oregon, Karin Melnick and completed her Ph.D. at the Kalai Awarded Rothschild University of Chicago in 2006 Prize under the direction of Benson Farb. With a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the National Science Founda- Gil Kalai of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The tion, she went to Yale University as a Gibbs Assistant Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been named a recipi- Professor. She received a Junior Research Fellowship from ent of the 2012 Rothschild Prize for his groundbreaking the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in spring 2009. She has work in combinatorics, convexity, and probability theory. been an assistant professor at the University of Maryland According to the prize citation, his work on discrete har- since fall 2009. monic analysis has had a major influence in the field of Melnick’s research is on differential-geometric aspects computational complexity and on other areas of theoreti- of rigidity. She studies the relationship between algebraic cal computer science. or dynamical properties of the group of automorphisms of The Rothschild Prizes are awarded in two-year cycles in a geometric structure on a manifold M and the geometry recognition of original and outstanding published work in and topology of M. Her work has focused on manifolds the disciplines of agriculture, chemical sciences, engineer- with Lorentzian metrics, conformal pseudo-Riemannian ing, humanities, Jewish studies, life sciences, mathematics, structures, and parabolic geometries in general. physical sciences, and social sciences. A prize is awarded Please note: Information about the competition for the for each discipline once in four years. The prize carries 2013–2014 AMS Centennial Fellowships will be published a cash award of US$50,000 and is intended to support, in the Mathematics Opportunities section of an upcoming encourage, and advance the sciences and humanities in issue of the Notices. Israel. —Allyn Jackson —From a Hebrew University announcement Aaronson Receives Waterman 2012 Balaguer Prize Awarded Award The Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation has awarded the 2012 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize to Angel Cano, Scott Aaronson of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Juan Pablo nology has been selected as a recipient of the 2012 Alan T. Navarrete, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatan, and Jose Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Seade, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, for He is a theoretical computational scientist whose research their joint monograph Complex Kleinian Groups. interests focus on the limitations of quantum computers The prize citation reads in part: “Kleinian groups and computational complexity theory more generally. were introduced by Henri Poincaré in the 1880s as the 844 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 59, NUMBER 6 Mathematics People monodromy groups of certain second-order differential Krieger-Nelson Prize recognizes female mathematicians equations. These are discrete groups of automorphisms who have made outstanding contributions to mathemati- of the complex projective line CP1; they can be regarded cal research. also as groups of isometries of the real hyperbolic 3-space. These groups have played, for decades, a major role in —From a CMS announcement several fields of mathematics, as, for example, in the theory of Riemann surfaces, in holomorphic dynamics, and in the geometrization conjecture for 3-manifolds. The Sloan Fellowships Awarded monograph by the prize recipients lays the foundations of the theory of complex Kleinian groups.” The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the names The Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation of the In- of the recipients of the 2012 Sloan Research Fellowships. stitut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) awards this international Each year the foundation awards fellowships in the fields prize every year to honor the memory of Ferran Sunyer of mathematics, chemistry, computational and evolu- i Balaguer (1912–1967), a self-taught Catalan mathemati- tionary molecular biology, computer science, econom- cian who gained international recognition for his research ics, neuroscience, physics, and ocean sciences. Grants in mathematical analysis despite the serious physical dis- of US$50,000 for a two-year period are administered by abilities with which he was born. The prize carries a cash each fellow’s institution. Once chosen, fellows are free to award of 15,000 euros (approximately US$20,000); the pursue whatever lines of inquiry most interest them, and winning monographs are published by Birkhäuser Verlag. they are permitted to employ fellowship funds in a wide variety of ways to further their research aims. —From a Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation Following are the names and institutions of the 2012 Anar Akhmedov announcement awardees in mathematics: , Univer- sity of Minnesota; Margaret Beck, Boston University; Grigoriy Blekherman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Prizes of the Canadian James Bremer, University of California, Davis; Pierre Germain, New York University; Alireza Salehi Golse- Mathematical Society fidy, University of California, San Diego; Florian Herzig, The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) has awarded a University of Toronto; Vera Mikyoung Hur, University number of prizes for 2012. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew Kahle, Ohio Gregory Smith of Queen’s University has been awarded State University; Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto; the 2012 Coxeter-James Prize for young mathemati- Young-Heon Kim, University of British Columbia; Tong cians who have made outstanding contributions to math- Liu, Purdue University; Yi Ni, California Institute of ematical research. His research centers on combinatorial Technology; Benjamin Recht, University of Wisconsin, varieties, the fundamental objects at the interface between Madison; Sebastien Roch, University of California, Los algebra, combinatorics, and geometry. Combinatorial Angeles; Marcus Roper, University of California, Los varieties account for a large number of the important Angeles; Karl Schwede, Pennsylvania State University; geometric objects that arise in commutative algebra, rep- Allan Sly, University of California, Berkeley; Valentino resentation theory, and mathematical physics, and their Tosatti, Columbia University; Rachel A. Ward, Univer- explicit nature makes them a good testing ground for sity of Texas, Austin. general theories and conjectures, as well as computational experimentation. — From a Sloan Foundation announcement Roland Speicher of Queen’s University, Kingston, On- tario, Canada, has been awarded the 2012 Jeffery-Williams Prize for Research Excellence for his research in free prob- Keyfitz Awarded Kovalevsky ability. The prize citation reads in part: “Through his focus Lectureship on the combinatorial side of free probability, Speicher has helped reveal key links between several areas of math- Barbara Keyfitz of the Ohio State University has been ematics. These linkages have, in turn, led to the resolution chosen as the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer for of several mathematical problems that have long been in 2012 by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). question.” The Jeffery-Williams Prize is awarded annually She will deliver the AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Lecture, titled to an individual who has made outstanding mathematical “The Role of Characteristics in Conservation Laws”, at the research contributions. 2012 annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Ap- Ailana Fraser of the University of British Columbia plied Mathematics (SIAM) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has been awarded the 2012 Krieger-Nelson Prize by the was honored in recognition of her pioneering and semi- CMS for her work in the study of geometrical analysis. nal contributions to the field of hyperbolic conservation According to the prize citation, she has made important laws. The Sonia Kovalevsky Lectureship honors significant contributions to the theory of minimal surfaces, includ- contributions of women to applied or computational ing existence and Morse index estimates. She has also mathematics. found striking applications to Riemannian geometry and to extremal eigenvalue questions for surfaces. The —From AWM-SIAM announcements JUNE/JULY 2012 NOTICES OF THE AMS 845 Mathematics People According to the prize citation, Mark MacLean is an out- Cornuejols Awarded John von standing instructor making a major impact on teaching
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