NEWS Mathematics People equations, quadratic forms and elliptic curves. His work Munshi Awarded ICTP-IMU also makes clear that he is far from done, and that we Ramanujan Prize should expect to see many more interesting results from him in the future.” Ritabrata Munshi of the Indian Munshi received his PhD from Princeton University in Statistical Institute and the Tata In- 2006 under the direction of Andrew Wiles. His honors in- stitute of Fundamental Research has clude the 2015 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science been awarded the 2018 Ramanujan and Technology in mathematical sciences and the 2017 Prize for Young Mathematicians Infosys Prize in Mathematical Sciences. from Developing Countries for his The Ramanujan Prize is awarded annually to a young outstanding work in number theory. researcher from a developing country. The prize carries The prize is awarded by the Abdus a cash award of US$15,000, and the recipient is invited to Salam International Centre for Theo- deliver a lecture at ICTP. retical Physics (ICTP), the Interna- Ritabrata Munshi tional Mathematical Union (IMU), —From an ICTP announcement and the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. The prize citation reads: “Ritabrata Munshi has made profound contributions to analytic number theory, in par- Sisto Receives 2018 Duszenko ticular to the study of analytic properties of L-functions and automorphic forms. L-functions were defined in Award great generality by Robert Langlands, and while much is Alessandro Sisto of ETH Zürich known about them from the representation theoretic and has been named the recipient of the arithmetic geometry points of view, their deeper analytic 2018 Duszenko Award for his sig- properties are largely unknown. nificant contributions to the study “In recent years, the work of Henryk Iwaniec and his of generalizations of hyperbolic collaborators has started to shed light on growth proper- groups. According to the prize cita- ties of these L-functions in the case of the group GL(2), tion, “he proved deep and interest- proving what are now called subconvexity theorems. These ing results, addressing wide range of theorems, which are actually estimates for the L-function questions and using wide range of on the ‘critical’ line, represent progress towards the proof techniques: random walks, bounded of the Lindelof hypothesis, which is one of the big open Alessandro Sisto problems in analytic number theory, perhaps second only cohomology, embedding obstruc- to the Riemann hypothesis. tions.” He received his PhD from the University of Oxford “Munshi takes these techniques to new levels by prov- in 2013 under the direction of Cornelia Drutu. He was a ing subconvexity theorems for some L-functions that postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zürich before becoming an come from GL(3). In a series of remarkable papers he assistant professor. In 2018 he co-organized the Young has extended the reach of the classical Hardy-Littlewood- Geometric Group Theory conference in Les Diablerets, Ramanujan ‘circle method’ to obtain sharp subconvexity Switzerland. He has written papers on various topics in estimates for L-functions arising from cusp forms on geometric group theory, as well as other fields. When not higher rank groups. doing mathematics, he climbs. “The progress from GL(2) to GL(3) is very hard won and The Duszenko Award is given by the Wrocław Mathema- involves a lot of technical prowess as well as ingenuity. ticians Foundation (WMF) for outstanding work or research While many authors have established some special cases, that has significantly contributed to the deepening of Ritabrata’s results are perhaps the most far-reaching and knowledge and further progress in the field of mathemat- most general. In addition, he has made striking contribu- ics. It was founded in honor of Kamil Duszenko, a young tions to other areas in number theory like Diophantine mathematician who died of acute lymphoblastic leukemia 1302 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 65, NUMBER 10 Mathematics People NEWS at the age of twenty-eight. It will be given at least every symmetry protected topological phases. These ideas have two years in the fields of mathematics and hematology. close connections to anomalies in quantum field theory.” The medals are awarded to scientists who have made —From a WMF announcement significant contributions to theoretical physics and carry a cash award of US$5,000. 2018 Dirac Medals Awarded —From an ICTP announcement The Dirac Medals for 2018 have been awarded by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) to 2018 Poincaré Prizes Awarded Subir Sachdev of Harvard University, Dam Thanh Son of the University of Chicago, and Xiao-Gang Wen of the The International Association of Mathematical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology “for their indepen- (IAMP) has awarded the 2018 Henri Poincaré Prizes for dent contributions towards understanding novel phases mathematical physics to Michael Aizenman of Princ- in strongly interacting many-body systems, introducing eton University, Percy Deift of New York University, and original transdisciplinary techniques.” Giovanni Gallavotti of Universitá di Roma La Sapienza. According to the prize citations, Sachdev “has made Aizenman was honored “for his pioneering contributions to many areas of theoretical con- seminal contributions to quantum densed matter physics. Of particular importance were the field theory, statistical mechanics, development of the theory of quantum critical phenomena and disordered systems in which in insulators, superconductors and metals; the theory he pioneered innovative techniques of spin-liquid states of quantum antiferromagnets and that demonstrate the beautiful and the theory of fractionalized phases of matter; the study effective interplay between physi- of novel deconfinement phase transitions; the theory of cal ideas, mathematical analysis, quantum matter without quasiparticles; and the applica- geometric concepts, and probabil- tion of many of these ideas to a priori unrelated problems ity theory.” Deift was recognized in black hole physics, including a concrete model of non- “for his seminal contributions to Fermi liquids.” Michael Aizenman Schrödinger operators, inverse scat- Son “was the first to understand tering theory, nonlinear waves, as- that gauge/gravity duality could ymptotic analysis of Fredholm and be used to address basic questions Toeplitz determinants, universality in strongly interacting many-body in random matrix theory, and his problems from cold trapped atoms deep analysis of integrable mod- to the quark-gluon plasma. He was els.” Gallavotti was honored “for able to show that one could compute his outstanding contributions to transport coefficients, such as vis- equilibrium and non-equilibrium cosity and conductivity, analytically statistical mechanics, quantum field in these systems, and that strong theory, classical mechanics, and coupling typically gives rise to a chaotic systems, including, in par- Dam Thanh Son bound on these coefficients. More Percy Deift ticular, the renormalization theory recently, he has argued for the emergence of a Dirac for interacting fermionic systems fermion at the half-filled Landau level, work which has and the fluctuation relation for the stimulated rapid developments in our understanding of large deviation functional of entropy three-dimensional gauge theories.” production.” Wen “has pioneered the concept Semyon Dyatlov of the Univer- of topological order as a new princi- sity of California Berkeley and the ple to understand gapped quantum Massachusetts Institute of Technol- systems. He found that states with ogy was selected the recipient of the topological order contain non-trivial 2018 Early Career Award of the IAMP boundary excitations, and he devel- “for the introduction and the proof oped chiral Luttinger theory for the of the fractal uncertainty principle, boundary states of quantum Hall Giovanni which has important applications to systems. He realized that quantum Gallavotti quantum chaos and to observability Hall states fall outside of the usual and control of quantum systems.” Landau paradigm for characterizing The Poincaré Prizes, sponsored by the Daniel Iagol- Xiao-Gang Wen phases of matter, and he showed nitzer Foundation, recognize outstanding contributions how to classify them. He unveiled that lay the groundwork for novel developments in deep connections between topological order and entangle- mathematical physics. The prizes recognize and support ment. More recently, he has developed the concept of young people of exceptional promise who have already NOVEMBER 2018 NOTICES OF THE AMS 1303 Mathematics People NEWS made outstanding contributions to the field. The prize is awarded MAA Awards Presented every three years at the International The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) presented Congress on Mathematical Physics. several awards for writing and education at its 2018 sum- The Early Career Award, sponsored mer MathFest. by Springer Publishing Company, The Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for excellent math- is given in recognition of a single ematical writing published in Mathematics Magazine achievement in mathematical phys- was presented to Fumiko Futamura and Robert Lehr ics and is reserved for scientists of Southwestern University for their joint paper, “A New under the age of thirty-five. Perspective on Finding the Viewpoint.” Semyon Dyatlov —From IAMP announcements The Trevor Evans Award for excellent writing for an undergraduate audience published in Math Horizons was