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contrast electrical impedance Takeda Awarded 2017–2018 tomography, as well as model Centennial Fellowship reduction techniques for para- bolic and hyperbolic partial The AMS has awarded its Cen- differential equations.” tennial Fellowship for 2017– Borcea received her PhD 2018 to Shuichiro Takeda. from Stanford University and Takeda’s research focuses on has since spent time at the Cal- automorphic forms and rep- ifornia Institute of Technology, resentations of p-adic groups, Rice University, the Mathemati- especially from the point of Liliana Borcea cal Sciences Research Institute, view of the Langlands program. Stanford University, and the He will use the Centennial Fel- École Normale Supérieure, Paris. Currently Peter Field lowship to visit the National Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at Michigan, she is Shuichiro Takeda University of Singapore and deeply involved in service to the applied and computa- work with Wee Teck Gan dur- tional mathematics community, in particular on editorial ing the academic year 2017–2018. boards and as an elected member of the SIAM Council. Takeda obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical The Sonia Kovalevsky Lectureship honors significant engineering from Tokyo University of Science, master's de- contributions by women to applied or computational grees in philosophy and mathematics from San Francisco mathematics. State University, and a PhD in 2006 from the University —From an AWM announcement of Pennsylvania. After postdoctoral positions at the Uni- versity of California at San Diego, Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and Purdue University, since 2011 he has been Pardon Receives Waterman assistant and now associate professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Award The Fellowship carries a stipend of US$91,000, an ex- John Pardon of Princeton pense allowance of US$9,100, and a complimentary Society University has been named membership for one year. the recipient of the Alan T. Wa- Please note: Information about the competition for the terman Award of the National 2018–2019 AMS Centennial Fellowships will be published Science Foundation (NSF) for in the “Mathematics Opportunities” section of an upcom- “revolutionary, groundbreak- ing issue of the Notices. ing results in geometry and —Allyn Jackson topology.” The award is the nation’s highest honor for sci- entists and engineers younger Borcea Awarded Kovalevsky John Pardon than thirty-five. It consists of a five-year grant worth US$1 Lectureship million. Liliana Borcea of the University of Michigan has been The prize citation reads: “Pardon is a Clay Research chosen as the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer Fellow and professor of mathematics at Princeton by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) University. His research focuses on geometry and and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics topology, the study of properties of shapes that are unaf- (SIAM). She was honored “for her distinguished scientific fected by deformations, such as stretching or twisting. contributions to the mathematical and numerical analysis He is known for solving problems that stumped other of wave propagation in random media, array imaging in mathematicians for decades and generating solutions that complex environments, and inverse problems in high- provide new tools for geometric analysis.

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“In 2013, Pardon published a solution to the Hilbert- Thomas C. Hales. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at Smith conjecture, a mathematical proposition involving the University of Toronto and at the Fields Institute for the actions of groups of ‘manifolds’ in three dimensions. Research in Mathematical Sciences and spent a year at the Manifolds include spheres and doughnut-shaped objects. Institute for Advanced Study. “The conjecture originates from one of the twenty-three The Michler Prize grants a midcareer woman in aca- problems published in 1900 by German mathematician demia a residential fellowship in the Cornell University David Hilbert, which helped guide the course of twentieth- mathematics department without teaching obligations. century mathematics. American topologist Paul Althaus Smith proposed a stronger version of the problem in —From an AWM announcement 1941. This problem has connections to many other areas of mathematics and physics. Pardon’s publication was notable for proving this long-standing conjecture, a major Ribet Awarded Brouwer Medal achievement in mathematics. “Prior to that publication, as a senior undergraduate at Kenneth A. Ribet of the Uni- Princeton, Pardon answered a question posed in 1983 by versity of California Berkeley Russian mathematician Mikhail Gromov regarding ‘knots,’ and president of the AMS has mathematical structures that resemble physical knots, but been awarded the 2017 Brou- are closed, instead of having any ends. wer Medal by the Royal Dutch “Gromov’s question involved a special class of knots Mathematical Society (KWG). called ‘torus knots.’ He asked whether these knots could According to the prize citation, be tied without altering or distorting their topology. he was honored “for his contri- Pardon figured out a way to use the distortion between butions to number theory, in two properties of knots—their intrinsic and extrinsic dis- particular for the groundbreak- tances—to control their topology. He showed that torus Kenneth A. Ribet ing work in which he applies knots are limited by their geometric properties, and can methods of algebraic geometry be tied without altering their topology. to number theoretical problems. This work later became “Pardon’s solution has important applications in fluid of decisive importance for the proof of Fermat’s Last dynamics and electrodynamics, calculating forces in- Theorem.” The prize is awarded every three years to a volved in aircraft movement, predicting weather patterns, mathematician of international renown. determining the flow of liquids through water treatment —From a KWG announcement plant pipelines, determining the flow of electrical charges, and more.” Pardon received his PhD in 2015 from Stanford Univer- Clay Research Awards sity under the direction of Yakov Eliashberg. He was the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and of Presented the Morgan Prize in 2012. The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) has made a number —From a National Science Foundation announcement of Research Awards for 2017. Aleksandr Logunov of Tel Aviv University and Che- byshev Laboratory, St. Petersburg State University, and Gordon Awarded AWM Eugenia Malinnikova of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have received a Clay Research Michler Prize Award “in recognition of their introduction of a novel geo- Julia Gordon of the Univer- metric combinatorial method to study doubling properties sity of British Columbia has of solutions to elliptic eigenvalue problems.” According been named the recipient of to the prize citation, this work “has led to the solution of the 2017–2018 Ruth I. Michler long-standing problems in spectral geometry, for instance Memorial Prize of the Associa- the optimal lower bound on the measure of the nodal tion for Women in Mathematics set of an eigenfunction of the Laplace-Beltrami operator (AWM). Gordon was selected in a compact smooth manifold (Yau and Nadirashvili’s to receive the Michler Prize conjectures).” because of her “wide range of Jason Miller of Cambridge University and Scott mathematical talents” and the Sheffield of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Julia Gordon connection of her work with have received a Clay Research Award “in recognition the research of several Cornell of their groundbreaking and conceptually novel work faculty members. Gordon’s re- on the geometry of the Gaussian free field and its search is in the areas of representation theory of p-adic application to the solution of open problems in the theory groups and of motivic integration. of two-dimensional random structures.” The prize citation Gordon received her PhD in 2003 from the Uni- reads: “The two-dimensional Gaussian free field (GFF) is a versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the direction of classical and fundamental object in probability theory and

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field theory. It is a random and Gaussian generalized function Simons Fellows in Mathematics h defined in a planar domain The Simons Foundation Mathematics and Physical Sci- D. Despite its roughness and ences (MPS) division supports research in mathematics, the fact that it is not a continu- theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science. The ous function, it possesses a MPS division provides funding for individuals, institutions, spatial Markov property that and science infrastructure. The Fellows Program provides explains why it is the natural funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave counterpart of Brownian mo- from classroom teaching and administrative obligations. tion when the time-line is re- The mathematical scientists who have been awarded Jason Miller Simons Fellowships for 2017 are: placed by the two-dimensional Matthew Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology set D. Miller and Sheffield have • •David Ben-Zvi, University of Texas at Austin studied what can be viewed as •Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah level-lines of h and more gen- •Lewis Bowen, University of Texas at Austin erally flow lines of the vector •Tobias Colding, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- fields exp(iah), where a is any nology given constant. This frame- •Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University work, which they call imagi- •Aleksandar Donev, New York University nary geometry, allows them •Zeev Dvir, Princeton University to embed many Schramm- •Ezra Getzler, Northwestern University Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan Scott Sheffield Loewner Evolutions within a • Florian Herzig, University of Toronto given GFF. A detailed study of • •John Imbrie, University of Virginia the way in which the flow lines interact and bounce off •Jeff Kahn, Rutgers, The State University of New each other allowed Miller and Sheffield to shed light on a Jersey number of open questions in the area and to pave the way •Jeremy Kahn, Brown University for further investigations involving new random growth •Michael Kapovich, University of California, Davis processes and connections with quantum gravity.” •Boris Khesin, University of Toronto Maryna Viazovska of •Kay Kirkpatrick, University of Illinois at Urbana— Princeton University and École Champaign Polytechnique Fédérale de •Nitu Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University Alex Kontorovich, Rutgers, The State University Lausanne has received a Clay • of New Jersey Research Award “in recogni- •Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota tion of her groundbreaking •Chikako Mese, Johns Hopkins University work on sphere-packing prob- •Tomasz Mrowka, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- lems in eight and twenty-four nology dimensions. In particular, her •Camil Muscalu, Cornell University Irina Nenciu, University of Illinois at Chicago Maryna Viazovska innovative use of modular and • quasimodular forms, which •Thomas Nevins, University of Illinois at Urbana— enabled her to prove that the E lattice is an optimal so- Champaign 8 Hee Oh, Yale University lution in eight dimensions.” The prize citation reads in • Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington part: “The result had been suggested by earlier work of • •Andrei Rapinchuk, University of Virginia Henry Cohn and Noam Elkies, who had conjectured the •Daniel Ruberman, Brandeis University existence of a certain special function that would force •Mark Rudelson, University of Michigan the optimality of the E8 lattice through an application of •Thomas Scanlon, University of California, Berkeley the Poisson summation formula. Viazovska’s construction •Natasa Sesum, Rutgers, The State University of New of the function involved the introduction of unexpected Jersey new techniques and establishes important connections •Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of with number theory and analysis. Her elegant proof is Technology conceptually simpler than that of the corresponding result •Nicolas Templier, Cornell University Benedek Valkó, University of Wisconsin—Madison in three dimensions.” • •András Vasy, Stanford University The awards will be presented at the 2017 Clay Research •Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University Conference at the University of Oxford in September 2017. •Sijue Wu, University of Michigan Note: See the feature story on Viazovska and her work •Wei Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the February 2017 Notices. •Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley —From a CMI announcement —From a Simons Foundation announcement

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tourist attraction. It was the site of the secret laboratory in Spohn Receives Max Planck which sonar was developed during the Second World War.” Medal Stephanie van Willigen- burg of the University of Brit- Herbert Spohn of Technical ish Columbia has been awarded University Munich has been the 2017 Krieger-Nelson Prize awarded the 2017 Max Planck for her outstanding research Medal for his “important con- contributions. The prize rec- tributions to statistical phys- ognizes outstanding research ics regarding the transition by a woman mathematician. from microscopic physics to The citation reads in part: macroscopic phenomena.” The prize citation reads in part: “Professor van Willigenburg Stephanie van is a leading expert in algebraic “His seminal contributions in- Willigenburg Herbert Spohn clude the derivation of kinetic combinatorics, a vibrant area and diffusive behavior on the of mathematics that connects basis of classical and quantum many-body systems, the with many other fields of study, including representa- hydrodynamic limit for stochastic interacting particle tion theory, algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, systems, and the fluctuation behavior of surface growth topology, and probability. Her research and subsequent models. Spohn has worked with great innovativeness and discoveries have focused on Schur functions, skew Schur independence. His research has a major impact on the functions, and quasisymmetric Schur functions, central field of statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium systems.” topics within the field of algebraic combinatorics.” She His awards include the 2011 Dannie Heineman Prize for received her PhD from the University of St. Andrews, Mathematical Physics, the 2011 Leonard Eisenbud Prize Scotland, in 1998. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at for Mathematics and Physics of the AMS, the 2014 Cantor York University and a visiting assistant professor at Cor- Medal, and the 2015 Henri Poincaré Prize. nell University before joining the faculty at the University —From a German Physical Society announcement of British Columbia. She is a cofounder and organizer of the Algebraic Combinatorixx workshops at the Banff Prizes of the Canadian International Research Station to foster mentoring, col- laborations, and networking for women in algebraic Mathematical Society combinatorics and related areas. Van Willigenburg and her husband, medieval historian Niall Christie, live in “Hol- The Canadian Mathematical lywood North” (i.e., Vancouver). They have sung on movie Society (CMS) has awarded a soundtracks when not in the classroom. number of prizes for 2017. Robert McCann of the Sabin Cautis of the Uni- University of Toronto has versity of British Columbia has been awarded the Jeffery- been awarded the 2017 Cox- Williams Prize for Research eter-James Prize for outstand- Excellence. According to the ing contributions to mathemat- prize citation, “McCann is an ical research. According to the internationally recognized ex- prize citation, he “is a leader in Robert McCann pert in applied mathematics the new and rapidly developing at the forefront of the develop- field of categorification as it ment of the theory and applications of optimal transporta- relates to geometric represen- Sabin Cautis tion. Together with his collaborators and peers worldwide, tation theory, algebraic geom- he has led a renaissance in the theory of optimal trans- etry, mathematical physics and low-dimensional topology. portation, helping to transform it into one of the most Categorification is a search for deeper structure behind vibrant and exciting areas in mathematics today.” McCann invariants in algebra and topology.” Cautis received his received his PhD from Princeton University in 1994 for his PhD from Harvard University in 2006 under the supervi- thesis introducing the concept of displacement convexity sion of Joe Harris. He taught at Rice University, Columbia under the supervision of Elliot H. Lieb. His honors include the Monroe H. Martin Prize (2001) and the Coxeter-James University, and the University of California before join- Prize of the CMS (2005). He is an elected member of the ing the University of British Columbia in 2013. He was Royal Society of Canada (2014) and the Fields Institute of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 2011–2013 and received the Mathematics (2015). McCann and his wife, Carolyn, live André-Aisenstadt Prize in 2014. in Toronto, where, he says, they live in a home “originally Note: See van Willigenburg’s short article in the April built to accommodate the gardener of Casa Loma, a turn- 2016 Notices. of-the-century castle and folly which is now a Toronto —From CMS announcements

598 Notices of the AMS Volume 64, Number 6 Mathematics People NEWS Resende and Žilinskas Putnam Prizes Awarded Awarded Carathéodory Prize The winners of the seventy-seventh William Lowell Put- nam Mathematical Competition have been announced. Mauricio Resende of Amazon.com, Inc., and Antanas The Putnam Competition is administered by the Math- Žilinskas of the Institute of Mathematics and Informat- ematical Association of America (MAA) and consists of ics, Vilnius University, Lithuania, have been awarded the an examination containing mathematical problems that 2017 Constantin Carathéodory Prize of the International are designed to test both originality and technical compe- Society of Global Optimization for fundamental contribu- tence. Prizes are awarded both to individuals and to teams. tions to theory, algorithms, and applications of stochastic The five highest ranking individuals each received a global optimization. Resende was honored for his major cash award of US$2,500. Listed in alphabetical order, work in combinatorial optimization, analysis of very large they are: and massive databases, and metaheuristics. Žilinskas was •Joshua D. Brakensiek, Carnegie Mellon University recognized for his fundamental work on statistical models •Dong Ryul Kim, Harvard University in global optimization and developing powerful Bayesian •Thomas E. Swayze, Carnegie Mellon University algorithms. The prize is awarded biennially to an individ- •Samuel Zbarsky, Carnegie Mellon University ual (or a group) for fundamental contributions to theory, •Yunkun Zhou, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- algorithms, and applications of global optimization. The ogy prize carries a cash award of US$2,000 and a certificate. Institutions with at least three registered participants —International Society of Global Optimization obtain a team ranking in the competition based on the rankings of three designated individual participants. The five top-ranked teams (with members listed in alphabeti- Bender Awarded Heineman cal order) were: •Carnegie Mellon University (Joshua D. Brakensiek, Prize Thomas E. Swayze, Samuel Zbarsky) •Princeton University (Eric D. Schneider, Zhuo Qun Carl M. Bender of Washing- Song, Xiaoyu Xu) ton University in St. Louis has •Harvard University (Pakawut Jiradilok, Dong been awarded the 2017 Dannie Ryul Kim, David W. Stoner) Heineman Prize for Mathemati- •Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Robert C. cal Physics “for developing Shen, David H. Yang, Yunkun Zhou) the theory of PT symmetry •Stanford University (Jie Jun Ang, Huy T. Pham, in quantum systems and sus- Albert R. Zhang) tained seminal contributions The first-place team receives an award of US$25,000, that have generated profound and each member of the team receives US$1,000. The and creative new mathematics, awards for second place are US$20,000 and US$800; for Carl M. Bender impacted broad areas of exper- third place, US$15,000 and US$600; for fourth place, imental physics, and inspired US$10,000 and $400; and for fifth place, US$5,000 and generations of mathematical physicists.” His research in- US$200. terests are in developing techniques such as asymptotics, Simona Diaconu of Princeton University was awarded perturbation theory, semiclassical methods, differential the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize for outstanding perfor- equations, complex variable theory, numerical methods, mance by a woman in the competition. She received an and combinatorics for solving difficult mathematical award of US$1,000. problems arising in theoretical physics. Bender tells the —From an MAA announcement Notices: “I love music and play several instruments seri- ously, such as the clarinet, and I also love chess. I enjoy traveling to conferences, universities, and laboratories and Tapia Receives AAAS Public meeting new and interesting people. I also love teaching very much and enjoy preparing students for mathematical Engagement Award competitions such as the Putnam exam.” Richard Tapia of Rice University has been named the re- The Heineman Prize is awarded annually in recognition cipient of the 2016 Public Engagement with Science Award of outstanding publications in the field of mathematical of the American Association for the Advancement of physics. The prize consists of US$10,000 and a certifi- Science (AAAS) for his “remarkable career blending world- cate. It was established by the Heineman Foundation for class scholarship, admirable mentoring and profound Research, Educational, Charitable, and Scientific Purposes, contributions to science, technology, engineering and Inc., and is administered jointly by the American Physical mathematics education and public engagement.” He Society and the American Institute of Physics. has devoted much time and effort to inspiring and en- —From a Heineman Foundation announcement couraging women, minorities, and young people from

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economically challenged com- also led to deep theoretical developments in the study of munities to achieve in math- reflected diffusions.” ematics and science and has About Reiman’s work, the citation goes on to say, served as a model for other “Reiman’s research is characterized by deep intuition mathematicians in public en- and penetrating understanding of the physical and math- gagement. Tapia received his ematical laws that govern the systems that he studies.… PhD in 1967 from the Univer- In Reiman’s work, one sees real inventiveness combined sity of California Los Angeles with strong mathematical and expository skills, supported and taught there, as well as at by a solid command of several distinct application do- the University of Wisconsin, mains. His research has influenced and inspired work by Richard Tapia before joining the faculty at the very best people in stochastic OR, including several Rice University. He has also previous winners of the von Neumann Theory Prize.” been associated with the Baylor College of Medicine and Williams’s research, according to the citation, “is charac- the University of Houston. Among his many awards and terized by its mathematical depth and elegance. She has honors is the 2011 National Medal of Science and the 2004 greatly influenced researchers in operations research, Distinguished Public Service Award of the AMS. He, along stochastic processes and mathematics, doing so through with David Blackwell, have been honored with a conference survey lectures and articles that are exemplary in clarity named after them, as well as the Blackwell–Tapia Prize, and insight. Her expositions have introduced the field to which honors a mathematician who has made significant researchers and described challenging open problems and contributions to research and to addressing the problem directions, which have spurred further research.” of underrepresentation of minorities in mathematics. Martin Reiman received his Tapia is the son of Mexican immigrants and was the first PhD from Stanford University in his family to attend college. He and his twin brother, and was associated with Bell Robert, loved drag racing and worked on cars throughout Laboratories until 2015. He has high school. Tapia has used his knowledge of muscle cars been associate editor of Math- and drag racing to connect with youth from communi- ematics Operations Research ties underrepresented in the sciences and has delivered and of the Annals of Applied a popular talk titled “Math at Top Speed: Exploring and Probability. Ruth Williams re- Breaking Myths in the Drag Racing Folklore” at many uni- ceived her PhD from Stanford versities and professional conferences. University in 1983. She is a past —From an AAAS announcement president of the Institute of Ruth J. Williams Mathematical Statistics and is a Fellow of the AMS, the Reiman and Williams Awarded American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as a 2016 von Neumann Theory member of the National Academy of Sciences. She tells the Notices: “I grew up in Australia, where I received an Prize excellent grounding in mathematics. I enjoy working on Martin I. Reiman of Colum- theoretical problems motivated by applications. For relax- bia University and Ruth J. ation, I enjoy spending time outdoors, especially hiking.” Williams of the University The John von Neumann Theory Prize is awarded annu- of California San Diego have ally to a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) who been awarded the John von has made fundamental, sustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management sciences. It is Neumann Theory Prize for the highest prize given in the field. It carries a cash award 2016. The citation reads in of US$5,000. part: “The award recognizes —From an INFORMS announcement seminal research contributions that Marty Reiman and Ruth Martin Reiman Williams have made, over the past several decades, to the Needell and Ward Awarded theory and applications of ‘stochastic networks/systems’ IMA Prize and their ‘heavy traffic approximations.’ These profound contributions have been and have further led to break- Deanna Needell of Claremont McKenna College and throughs in stochastic operations research in general, and Rachel Ward of the University of Texas at Austin have queueing theory in particular. Their analysis of complex been awarded the 2016 IMA Prize in Mathematics and stochastic networks under conditions of heavy traffic has Its Applications. The prize citation reads in part: “While not only led to the discovery and rigorous articulations of Needell is recognized for her contributions to sparse properties of the networks and penetrating insights into approximation, signal processing, and stochastic optimi- the operational laws of real-world systems they model, but zation, and Ward is recognized for her contributions to

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the mathematics of machine tists who were selected as Guggenheim Fellows for 2017. learning and signal processing, Selected as fellows in mathematics and statistics were: much of their research over- •David Blei, Columbia University laps. Their 2013 joint paper, •Hee Oh, Yale University ‘Stable image reconstruction •Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of using total variation minimi- Technology zation,’ was published in the Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of im- SIAM Journal on Imaging Sci- pressive achievement in the past and exceptional promise ences. Their work has applica- for future accomplishments. tions in medical imaging such —From a Guggenheim Foundation announcement Deanna Needell as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, as well as in sen- sor and distributed networks, ANZIAM Prizes Awarded statistical problems, compres- Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathe- sion, and image processing matics (ANZIAM), a division of the Australian Mathematical problems.” Society, has awarded medals for 2017 to two mathematical Needell began her under- scientists. Kate Smith-Miles of Monash University has graduate studies as a veteri- been awarded the 2017 E. O. Tuck Medal. According to the nary science major. She tells prize citation, she “has developed a broad toolkit of math- the Notices: “After working as ematical techniques, as well as the language and communi- a vet tech, however, I realized cation skills necessary to collaborate with researchers and it wasn’t for me and eventu- industry partners, on problems from fields as diverse as Rachel Ward ally changed my major seven manufacturing design, epidemiology, neural prosthetics, times before discovering my passion for mathematics. computer vision, finance, and stem cell modelling.” The Now my love for animals resides in our rescue dog named Tuck Medal is a midcareer award given for outstanding ‘Jacobi.’” Ward tells the Notices: “I had my first baby … research and distinguished service to the field of applied (a girl named Mara) just a couple months after this prize mathematics. Alys Clark of the University of Auckland was announced.” was awarded the 2017 J. H. Michell Medal. According to The prize is awarded annually by the Institute for the prize citation, she “works at the interface between Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) to an individual mathematical modeling and the biological sciences with or individuals within ten years of the PhD who have made research interests in modeling the transport of nutrients a transformative impact on the mathematical sciences in the complex and heterogeneous structures of the lungs, and their applications. The prize carries a cash award of placenta and ovaries to guide clinicians in making medical US$3,000. decisions.” The medal recognizes an outstanding young —From an IMA announcement researcher in applied/industrial mathematics. —From an ANZIAM announcement Berners-Lee Receives ACM Turing Award Balaguer Prize Awarded Tim Berners-Lee of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Antoine Chambert-Loir of Université Paris–Diderot Paris nology and the University of Oxford has been named the 7, Johannes Nicaise of Imperial College London, and Julien Sebag of Université Rennes 1 have been awarded recipient of the 2016 A. M. Turing Award of the Associa- the 2017 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize for their joint tion for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was honored monograph, Motivic Integration. The prize is awarded “for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, by the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation for a math- and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing ematical monograph of an expository nature presenting the Web to scale.” The Turing Award carries a cash prize the latest developments in an active area of research in of US$1,000,000. mathematics, in which the applicant has made important —From an ACM announcement contributions. It carries a cash award of 15,000 euros (ap- proximately US$16,000). The winning monograph will be published in Birkhäuser’s series Progress in Mathematics. Guggenheim Fellowship —From a Balaguer Foundation announcement Awards to Mathematical Scientists 2017 AAAS Fellows Elected The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has announced the names of 173 scholars, artists, and scien- elected 188 new fellows and 40 foreign honorary members

June/July 2017 Notices of the AMS 601 Mathematics People NEWS for 2017. Following are the new members whose work •Gabor Stepan, Budapest University of Technology involves the mathematical sciences. and Economics •Michael Aizenman, Princeton University •Daniel B. Szyld, Temple University •Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University •Jean E. Taylor, Courant Institute of Mathematical •Christopher D. Hacon, University of Utah Sciences and Rutgers University •Robert V. Kohn, New York University •Marc Teboulle, Tel Aviv University •Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford University •J. A. C. Weideman, Stellenbosch University •Vera Serganova, University of California Berkeley •Carol S. Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National Elected as a foreign honorary member was Johannes Laboratory Sjöstrand, Université de Bourgogne. •Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University —From an AAAS announcement —From a SIAM announcement Watson Fellowship Awarded Regeneron Science Talent Dina Sinclair, a senior math major at Harvey Mudd Col- Search lege, has been awarded a T. J. Watson Fellowship for her project, “High School Math Contests: Gender, Culture, and Three young scientists whose work involves the math- Access.” Sinclair will travel to seven countries to learn ematical sciences are among the top winners in the 2017 “how logistical and social choices affect student percep- Regeneron Science Talent Search. tion of math contests.” The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Aaron Yeiser, eighteen, of Schwenksville, Pennsylva- is a one-year grant of US$30,000 for purposeful, inde- nia, was awarded second place and US$175,000 for his pendent exploration outside the United States, awarded development of a new mathematical method for solving to graduating seniors nominated by one of forty partner partial differential equations on complicated geometries. colleges. Arjun Ramani, eighteen, of West Lafayette, Indiana, re- —From a Watson Foundation announcement ceived third-place honors and US$150,000 for blending the mathematical field of graph theory with computer programming to answer questions about networks. Laura SIAM Fellows Elected Pierson, seventeen, of Oakland, California, received the sixth-place award and US$80,000 for her use of theoretical The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics has algebra to study the representation theory of mathemati- elected its class of fellows for 2017. Their names and cally symmetric groups. institutions follow. The Regeneron (formerly Intel) Science Talent Search •Zhaojun Bai, University of California, Davis is the United States’ oldest and most prestigious science •Peter Benner, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of and mathematics competition for high school seniors. It Complex Technical Systems is administered by the Society for Science and the Public. •Angelika Bunse-Gerstner, Universität Bremen —From a Society for Science •Emmanuel Candés, Stanford University and the Public announcement •Rama Cont, Imperial College London •Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University •Lieven De Lathauwer, KU Leuven Hertz Foundation Fellows •Bart De Moor, KU Leuven •Andreas Griewank, Yachay Tech University Announced Helge Holden, Norwegian University of Science and • The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has announced Technology the awarding of twelve fellowships for graduate work in Panayotis Kevrekidis, University of Massachusetts, • science and mathematics. Each fellow receives five full Amherst years of support toward their PhD degrees. The two new Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota • fellows in the mathematical sciences are Linus Hamilton Karl Kunisch, Karl Franzens Universität Graz • of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hannah Monique Laurent, Centrum Wiskunde and Infor- • Larson of Harvard University. matica —From a Hertz Foundation announcement •Mark A. Lewis, University of Alberta •Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Labora- tory •Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara *NSF Graduate Research •Michael Kwok-Po Ng, Hong Kong Baptist University Fellowships Awarded •James Renegar, Cornell University •Andrew J. Sommese, University of Notre Dame The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a •Joel H. Spencer, Courant Institute of Mathematical number of Graduate Research Fellowships for fiscal year Sciences 2017. Further awards may be announced later in the year.

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This program supports students pursuing doctoral study •Patrick Eastham (Florida State University), Florida in all areas of science and engineering and provides a State University stipend of US$30,000 per year for a maximum of three •Matthew S. Farrell (Cornell University), University years of full-time graduate study. Information about the of Washington solicitation for the 2018 competition will be published in •Yakir M. Forman (Yeshiva University), Yeshiva the “Mathematics Opportunities”’ section of an upcoming University issue of the Notices. •Ian Francis (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Following are the names of the awardees in the math- University of Tennessee, Knoxville ematical sciences selected so far in 2017, followed by •Peter J. Geldermans (Purdue University), William their undergraduate institutions (in parentheses) and the Marsh Rice University institutions at which they plan to pursue graduate work. •Tyler Genao (Florida Atlantic University), Florida •Dylan Airey (University of Texas at Austin), Univer- Atlantic University sity of Texas at Austin •Jonathan Gerhard (James Madison University), •Colin C. Aitken (Massachusetts Institute of Technol- James Madison University ogy), Massachusetts Institute of Technology •Claudio J. Gonzales (New Mexico Institute of Min- •Ayah K. Almousa (University of Wisconsin– ing and Technology), University of Chicago Madison), Cornell University •Elizabeth Greco (Kenyon College), Cornell Univer- •Ethan E. Alwaise (Emory University), Emory Uni- sity versity •Araminta Gwynne (Northwestern University), •Benjamin E. Anzis (University of Idaho), University Northwestern University of Idaho •Lily Hu (Harvard College), Harvard University •Adam A. Atanas (Harvard University), Harvard •Melissa N. Jay (Colorado College) University •Edna L. Jones (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technol- •Jess Banks (Oberlin College), University of California, ogy), Rutgers University Berkeley •Anya Katsevich (University of North Carolina at •Robert J. Baraldi (North Carolina State University), Chapel Hill), University of North Carolina at Chapel University of Washington Hill •Rajendra Beekie (University of Minnesota–Twin •Lea Kenigsberg (State University of New York at Cities), University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Stony Brook), State University of New York at Stony •Daniel C. Bourgeois (Louisiana State University Brook and Agricultural and Mechanical College), Louisiana •Brianna G. Kozemzak (Saint Mary’s College), Saint State University and Agricultural and Mechanical Mary’s College College •Vivian Z. Kuperberg (Cornell University), Cornell •Elizabeth C. Chase (University of North Carolina at University Chapel Hill), University of North Carolina at Chapel •Taylor M. Lagler (Millersville University), Univer- sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hill Hannah K. Larson (Harvard University), Harvard Katherine G. Christianson (Columbia University), • • University University of California, Berkeley Kathy Y. Li (Harvard University) Olivia J. Chu (New York University), Princeton • • Runjing Liu (Duke University), University of Cali- University • fornia, Berkeley Kyle R. Conniff (Saint Norbert College), University • Jaime G. Lopez (Arizona State University), Arizona of California, Irvine • State University Jane I. Coons (State University of New York College at • Wesley Maddox (Case Western Reserve University), Geneseo), North Carolina State University • Case Western Reserve University Katherine L. Cordwell (University of Maryland), • Holly B. Mandel (Yale University), Rutgers Univer- University of Maryland • sity Colin Defant (University of Florida), University of • Kaitlyn Martinez (Colorado College), Colorado Florida • School of Mines Calvin Deng (Harvard University), Harvard Univer- • Jacob M. McNamara (Harvard University), Harvard sity • University Derek T. Driggs (University of Colorado at Boulder), • Emili V. Moan (Winthrop University), North Carolina University of Colorado at Boulder • State University *The most up-to-date listing of NSF funding opportunities from •Gwyneth Moreland (University of Michigan, Ann the Division of Mathematical Sciences can be found online at Arbor), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor www.nsf.gov/dms and for the Directorate of Education and •Jessica K. Nadalin (University of California Berke- Human Resources at www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=ehr. ley), Boston University To receive periodic updates, subscribe to the DMSNEWS listserv by •Seth V. Neel (Harvard University), University of following the directions at www.nsf.gov/mps/dms/about.jsp. Pennsylvania

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•Khanh P. Nguyen (University of Houston), University •Albert Zhang (Stanford University), Stanford Uni- of Houston versity •Michelle Nuno (University of California Riverside), •Robin Zhang (Stanford University), Stanford Uni- University of California Irvine versity •Colin Okasaki (Harvey Mudd College), Harvey Mudd —NSF announcement College •Omomayowa Olawoyin (University of Texas at Arlington), University of Texas at Arlington Ludvig Faddeev (1934–2017) •Yujia Pan (University of Chicago), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Ludvig Faddeev, eminent •Peter S. Park (Princeton University), Princeton Russian theoretical physicist University and mathematician, was fa- •Gregory J. Parker (Harvard College), Harvard Col- mous for his contributions to lege the quantum mechanical three- •Nicole Pashley (Queen’s University), Harvard Uni- body problem and for his work versity on the quantization of non- •Danilo T. Perez (University of Puerto Rico, Cayey), abelian gauge field theories. University of Puerto Rico, Cayey He was one of the scientists to Alex Pieloch (Duke University), Duke University bridge the gap between math- • Ludvig Faddeev •Kim C. Raath (Arkansas State University), William ematics and physics. Marsh Rice University Faddeev served the Interna- •Eugene Rabinovich (Duke University), University tional Mathematical Union for twelve years. As president of California, Berkeley (1987–1990), he worked tirelessly on improving coopera- •Bradley A. Rava (University of Southern California), tion among mathematicians from all regions of the world Yale University and fostering good relations with other scientists. Very •Catherine E. Ray (George Mason University), Uni- recently, he was deeply involved in the Russian bid for versity of Chicago a 2022 International Congress of Mathematicians in St. •Diego A. Rojas (University of Florida), University Petersburg. of Florida For many years, Faddeev was head of the St. Petersburg •Adrienne Sands (Washington University), University Department of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the of Minnesota–Twin Cities Russian Academy of Sciences, and he was founder of the •Rebecca Santorella (The College of New Jersey), Euler International Mathematical Institute in St. Peters- The College of New Jersey burg. He received the 2006 Henri Poincaré Prize and the •Mark A. Sellke (Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 2008 Shaw Prize. ogy), Massachusetts Institute of Technology —Adapted from IMU-Net Newsletter No. 82 •Susannah Shoemaker (Pomona College), Princeton University Photo Credits •Elizabeth Spencer (University of Maryland, College The photo of Shuichiro Takeda is by Kyle Newell-Groshong. Park), Boston University Sargent College The photo of John Pardon is courtesy of Denise Applewhite. •Ashvin A. Swaminathan (Harvard College), Harvard The photo of Kenneth A. Ribet is courtesy of Jim Block. University The photos of Julia Gordon and Liliana Borcea are courtesy of AWM. Jonathan B. Tidor (Massachusetts Institute of Tech- • The photo of Jason Miller is courtesy of Perla Sousi. nology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology The photo of Maryna Viazovska is courtesy of Daniil Yevtu- •Kimberly T. Truong (Brown University), Brown shynsky. University The photo of Robert McCann is courtesy of Robert McCann. •Sahana Vasudevan (Harvard University), Harvard The photo of Stephanie van Willigenburg is courtesy of Niall University Christie. •Andres R. Vindas Melendez (University of Califor- The photo of Ruth Williams is courtesy of UCSD Publications. nia Berkeley), San Francisco State University The photo of Marty Reiman is courtesy of Robin Straus. •George Y. Wang (University of Southern California), The photo of Deanna Needell is courtesy of Deanna Needell. University of Pennsylvania The photo of Rachel Ward is ©Archives of the Mathematisches Max H. Weinreich (Yale University) Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. • The photo of Carl Bender is by Joe Angeles, Washington Uni- Robert M. Weylandt (Princeton University), William • versity. Marsh Rice University The photo of Herbert Spohn is courtesy of TUM (Technical Uni- •Yuval Wigderson (Princeton University), Stanford versity Munich). University The photo of Richard Tapia is by Tommy LaVergne, Rice Uni- •Samuel Zbarsky (Carnegie Mellon University), Car- versity. negie Mellon University

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