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Mathematics People probability and analytic geometry, and number theory. The Saint-Raymond and Scholze prize carries a cash value of 20,000 euros (approximately Awarded 2015 Fermat Prizes US$22,000). Laure Saint-Raymond of Ecole —From a Fermat Prize announcement Normale Supérieure and Peter Scholze of the University of Bonn have been awarded Fer- ICMI Klein and Freudenthal mat Prizes for 2015. Laure Saint-Raymond was honored Medals Awarded for her development of asymp- totic theories of partial differ- Alan J. Bishop of ential equations, including the Monash University fluid limits of rarefied flows, has been awarded multiscale analysis in plasma the 2015 Felix Klein physics equations and ocean Medal of the Interna- tional Commission Laure Saint-Raymond modeling, and the derivation of the Boltzmann equation from on Mathematical In- interacting particle systems. Laure shared with the Notices struction (ICMI) “in her conviction “that research is not a matter of competi- recognition of his tion but rather a collective challenge…. I like the ‘algorithm more than forty- for discovery’ published by [David] Paydarfar and [William] five years of sus- Schwartz in Science (April 2001): Slow down to explore… tained, consistent, Alan J. Bishop Read but not too much… Pursue quality for its own sake… and outstanding life- Cultivate smart time achievements in friends.” mathematics education research and scholarly develop- ment”. The prize citation states that “his book Mathemati- Peter Scholze cal Enculturation: A Cultural Perspective on Mathematics was honored for Education, published in 1988, was groundbreaking in that his invention of it developed a new conception of mathematics—the no- perfectoid spaces tion of mathematics as a cultural product and the cultural and their applica- values that mathematics embodies…. Bishop has been tion to fundamen- instrumental in bringing the political, social, and cultural tal problems in al- dimensions of mathematics education to the attention of ©G. Bergman gebraic geometry the field.” He has done extensive mentoring work with Peter Scholze and in the theory teachers and developed full-time MEd and PhD programs of automorphic forms. (See “What is a perfectoid space?” in mathematics education while at Cambridge University. by Bhargav Bhatt in Notices, October 2014.) As the citation states, “few researchers can match the The Fermat Prize is given every two years for research way in which his research has improved mathematics in fields in which Pierre de Fermat made major contribu- education through the connections he has forged between tions: statements of variational principles, foundations of research and practice.” Bishop told the Notices: “When MARCH 2016 NOTICES OF THE AMS 305 Mathematics People leaving school I had to make a choice between studying mathematics or music. I played bassoon in the National IEEE Control Systems Award Youth Orchestra [of Great Britain] at that time, and there Given was no possibility of a joint degree between the two. I chose to study mathematics but have always enjoyed The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers music. I still play the bassoon as well as other instruments. (IEEE) awards the Control Sys- Is this an example of the famous links between mathemati- tems Award annually. The recipi- cal and musical abilities?” ent of the 2016 award is Ar- Jill Adler of the University thur J. Krener of the Naval of the Witwatersrand has been Postgraduate School, Monterey, awarded the Hans Freudenthal California, “for contributions Medal for 2015 “in recognition to the analysis, control, and es- of her outstanding research timation of nonlinear control program dedicated to improv- systems.” The award recognizes ing the teaching and learning an individual’s “outstanding Arthur J. Krener of mathematics in South contributions to control systems Africa—from her 1990s engineering, science, or technology” and considers the groundbreaking sociocultural seminal nature, depth, and breadth of contributions, as research on the inherent dilem- well as singular achievement and practical impact. mas of teaching mathematics in Jill Adler multilingual classrooms through —From an IEEE announcement to her subsequent focus on problems related to math- ematical knowledge for teaching and mathematics teacher professional development.” According to the citation, Prizes of the Mathematical “she has played an outstanding leadership role in growing mathematics education research in South Africa, Africa, Society of Japan and beyond. Her development of research teams involving The Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ) has awarded the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, along with the following prizes for 2015. mentoring of numerous PhD and master’s students, have The 2015 Autumn Prize was awarded to Koji Fujiwara all added to the human research capacity she has been of Kyoto University for outstanding contributions to work instrumental in creating in Southern Africa.” The Klein Medal honors lifetime achievement in math- on constructing group actions on quasi-trees. ematics education research. The Freudenthal Medal recog- The 2015 Analysis Prizes were awarded to Mitsuru nizes a major cumulative program of research. Sugimoto of Nagoya University for research on harmonic analysis for modulation and related spaces and smoothing —From ICMI announcements estimates for partial differential equations of dispersive type; to Kazunaga Tanaka of Waseda University for work on variational methods for multicluster solutions Bergholtz Receives Wallenberg to a singular perturbation of nonlinear elliptic equations; and to Akimichi Takemura of the University of Tokyo Fellowship for studies on holonomic gradient method. Emil J. Bergholtz of Freie Universität Berlin has been The 2015 Geometry Prizes were awarded to Hiroshi awarded a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship for his work Iritani of Kyoto University for the study of quantum co- in “developing mathematical theories that may guide the homology and to Osamu Saeki of Kyushu University for development of a particular form of quantum matter, research on stable maps and topology of manifolds. The which has special properties that researchers believe 2015 Takebe Katahiro Prizes were awarded to Michiaki may be a platform for quantum computers”. Twenty-nine Onodera of Kyushu University for the study of shapes young researchers in the fields of humanities, medicine, of solutions of elliptic equations by the evolution equa- natural sciences, social sciences, and engineering were tion approach; to Shouhei Honda of Tohoku University awarded Wallenberg Academy Fellowships in 2015. Each for research in geometric analysis on limit spaces of fellow receives a five-year grant of 5–9 million Swedish Riemannian manifolds; and to Shunsuke Yamana of krona (approximately US$588,000–1,060,000), depending Kyoto University for work on automorphic L-functions on the field, and may apply for an additional five years. and theta correspondence. The program was established by the Knut and Alice Wal- The 2015 Takebe Katahiro Prizes for Encouragement of lenberg Foundation in close cooperation with five learned Young Researchers were awarded to Masahiro Ikeda of academies and sixteen Swedish universities to give the Kyoto University for research on the asymptotic behavior most promising young researchers a work situation that of solutions for nonlinear dispersive wave equations; to enables them to focus on their projects and address dif- Erika Ushikoshi of Tamagawa University for work on the ficult research questions over an extended period of time. Hadamard variational formula of the Stokes equations; to Motohiro Sobajima of the Tokyo University of Science —From a Wallenberg Academy announcement for the study of second-order elliptic operators with un- 306 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 63, NUMBER 3 Mathematics People bounded coefficients; and to Kazuki Morimoto of Kyoto cal sciences at Bristol University. Rahul Singh of Yale Uni- University for research on periods of automorphic forms versity is a student in economics and special values of L-functions. and mathematics. He will study econometrics and mathematical —From MSJ announcements economics at the London School of Economics and computational statistics and machine learning Prizes of the New Zealand at University College London. Mathematical Society Singh told the Notices: “I discov- ered my love for applied math The New Zealand Mathematical Society (NZMS) has an- while teaching financial literacy nounced several awards for 2015. at charter schools in New Haven Hinke Osinga of the University of Auckland received and Cleveland. I found joy in ex- the NZMS Research Award “for pioneering work on theory plaining the mathematical con- Rahul Singh and computational methods in dynamical systems and its cepts that underlie economic applications in biology and engineering”. concepts that in turn affect my students’ decisions about Adam Day of Victoria University of Wellington re- how to pay for college.” ceived the NZMS Early Career Award “for fundamental Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high contributions to the theory of algorithmic randomness ability to study for degrees in the United Kingdom. Up to and computability, including the solution of the random forty scholars are selected each year to study at the gradu- covering problem”. ate level at a UK institution in any field of study. Andrew Keane of the University of Auckland was awarded the Aitken Prize for the best contributed talk by —From a Marshall Scholarships announcement