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Springer Congratulates the of the American Mathematical Society ICM 2010 Award Winners! November 2010 Volume 57, Number 10 Springer is happy to announce that the winners of the Fields Medals 2010 are all Springer authors

Cédric Villani was awarded the for his proofs of nonlinear Landau damping and convergence to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation. Books Cédric Villani published with Springer 7 Optimal Transport: Old and New 7 Entropy Methods for the Boltzmann Equation 7 Optimal Transportation and Applications Villani has also published articles in Inventiones Mathe maticae, Numerische Mathematik, Mathematische Zeitschrift, Probability and Related Fields. He is also an editor of Inventiones Mathematicae and serves on the board of the Birkhäuser book series, Frontiers in . Ngô Bảo Châu received the Fields Medal for his proof of the Fundamental Lemma in the theory of automorphic forms through the introduction of new algebro-geometric methods. Châu is an Editor-in-Chief for the series Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften and has published articles in Publications Mathématiques de L’IHÉS and Inventiones Mathematicae. was awarded the Fields Medal for his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to . Lindenstrauss has published articles in the following journals: Journal of Mathematics, Journal d’ Analyse Mathematique, Inventiones Mathematicae, Geometric and Functional Analysis, and Selecta Mathematica. was honored with the Fields Medal for the proof of conformal invariance of percolation and the planar in . Smirnov has published articles in Inventiones Mathematicae, Letters in Mathematical Physics, Theoretical and Mathe matical Physics, and Probability and Related Fields.

Nevanlinna Prize Winner Volume 57, Number 10, Pages 1241–1384, November 2010 Daniel A. Spielman has been chosen for the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize for smoothed analysis of linear programming, algorithms for graph-based codes and applications of graph theory to numerical computing. A second major contribution of Spielman is in the area About the Cover: The public lectures in Hyderabad (see page 1276) of coding. Spielman has published articles in Mathematical Programming. Gauss Prize Winner Yves Meyer The Mathematics of Earthquakes and has been selected for the Gauss Prize for fundamental contributions to number theory, operator theory and harmonic analysis, and his pivotal role in the development of wavelets and multiresolution analysis. Animal Behavior: An Weatherquakes: Mathematics Meyer has published in the Lecture Notes in Mathematics series and in the Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications. Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Climate Change Chern Prize Winner page 1248 page 1278 Louis Nirenberg has been selected to be the first recipient of the Chern Medal for his role in the formulation of the modern theory of Environmental Problems, non-linear elliptic partial differential equations and for mentoring numerous students and post-docs in this area. Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, Nirenberg has published articles in Selecta Mathematica, Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications published In Memoriam Uncertainty, and by Birkhäuser. 014809x page 1260 Mathematical Modeling page 1286

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