Mathematics People MAA Writing Awards SIAM Prizes Awarded Presented The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) awarded several prizes at its annual meeting in Philadel- The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) presented phia in July 2002. several awards for excellence in expository writing at its GANG HU of Lehman Brothers received the Richard C. Summer Mathfest in Burlington, Vermont, in August 2002. DiPrima Prize. This prize is awarded to a young scientist The Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards are given for articles who has done outstanding research in applied mathe- published in Mathematics Magazine and carry a cash award matics and who has completed his or her doctoral dis- of $500. The award for 2002 was given to MARK MCKINZIE, sertation and all other requirements for the doctorate Monroe Community College, and CURTIS TUCKEY, Oracle during the period from three years to one year prior to the Corporation, for their article, “Higher Trigonometry, Hy- award date. The prize carries a cash award of $1,000. perreal Numbers, and Euler’s Analysis of Infinities”, Math- H. THOMAS BANKS of North Carolina State University re- ematics Magazine, Vol. 74, 2001. ceived the W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize. This prize is given The Trevor Evans Award is given to authors of exposi- for research in or other contributions to the areas of dif- tory articles that are accessible to undergraduates and ferential equations and control theory. It carries a cash that were published in Math Horizons. This prize carries award of $10,000. a cash award of $250. Two awards were given for 2002. ERIC LANDER of the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- JAMES TANTON, The Math Circle, was selected for his article, ogy was awarded the John von Neumann Lectureship and “A Dozen Questions about the Powers of Two”, Math Hori- a cash award of $2,500. JONATHAN CHAPMAN of Oxford Uni- zons, Vol. 8, 2001. FRANK A. FARRIS, Santa Clara University, versity received the Julian Cole Lectureship and a cash won for his article, “The Edge of the Universe”, Math Hori- award of $1,000. CRAIG A. TRACY of the University of Cali- zons, Vol. 8, 2001. fornia, Davis, and HAROLD WIDOM of the University of Cal- The Lester R. Ford Award honors articles published in ifornia, Santa Cruz, were both awarded the George Pólya The American Mathematical Monthly and carries a cash Prize Lectureship; they will split the cash award of $20,000. prize of $500. Four awards were made for 2002. PETER CHRISTOPH BREGLER of Stanford University received the BORWEIN and LOKI JORGENSON, both of Simon Fraser Univer- I. E. Block Community Lectureship, which carries an hon- sity, were honored for their joint article, “Visible Structures orarium of $500. in Number Theory”, American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 108, 2001. DIRK HUYLEBROUCK was honored for his article, —From a SIAM announcement “Similarities in Irrationality Proofs for pi, ln2, zeta(2), and zeta(3)”, American Mathematical Monthly, March 2001. GREG MARTIN, University of British Columbia, won for his Tolsa Awarded 2002 Salem article, “Absolutely Abnormal Numbers”, American Math- Prize ematical Monthly, October 2001. DAVID L. ROBERTS, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, won for his article, The Salem Prize for the year 2002 has been awarded to “Moore’s Early Twentieth-Century Program for Reform in XAVIER TOLSA of the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. Mathematics Education”, American Mathematical Monthly, Tolsa was recognized for his work on analytic capacity, par- October 2001. ticularly for the solution of the Painlevé and Vitushkin prob- The George Pólya Award is given for articles published lems. in The College Mathematics Journal and has a cash prize The prize, in memory of Raphaël Salem, is awarded of $500. TIMOTHY G. FEEMAN, Villanova University, was cho- yearly to young researchers for outstanding contributions sen for his article, “Conformality, the Exponential Func- in the field of analysis. The 2002 prize committee consisted tion, and World Map Projections”, College Mathematics of J. Bourgain, C. Fefferman, P. Jones, N. Nikolski, P. Sar- Journal, Vol. 32, 2001. nak, and J.-C. Yoccoz. —From an MAA announcement —Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study 1094 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 49, NUMBER 9 Mathematics People PECASE Awards Announced California, San Diego; JAMES A. PARSON (Princeton University) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; RODRIGO A. PEREZ (State Sixty young researchers were chosen to receive the 2001 University of New York at Stony Brook) Cornell University; Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engi- NATHAN P. READING (University of Minnesota) University of neers (PECASE). This award is the highest honor bestowed Michigan, Ann Arbor; ALEXANDER RETAKH (Yale University) by the U.S. government on outstanding young scientists, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; DAVID R. REVELLE mathematicians, and engineers who are in the early stages (Cornell University) University of California, Berkeley; of establishing their independent research careers. DANIEL S. ROGALSKI (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Uni- Among the awardees are four who work in the mathe- versity of Washington; JEFFREY H. SCHENKER (Princeton Uni- matical sciences. RAFFAELLO D’ANDREA of Cornell University versity) University of California, Irvine; JESSICA S. SIDMAN (Uni- and RONALD P. FEDKIW of Stanford University were nominated versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor) University of California, by the Department of Defense. PAUL M. RICKER of the Uni- Berkeley; ROBERT J. SIMS (University of Alabama, Birming- versity of Chicago was nominated by the Department of ham) Princeton University; TODD M. SQUIRES (Harvard Uni- Energy. BRIAN D. CONRAD of the University of Michigan was versity) California Institute of Technology; TOUFIC M. SUIDAN nominated by the National Science Foundation. (Princeton University) Institute for Advanced Study, Prince- The recipients were selected from nominations made ton; MARK L. TOMFORDE (Dartmouth College) University of by nine participating federal agencies. Each recipient re- Iowa; and ALEKSEY ZINGER (Massachusetts Institute of Tech- ceives a five-year grant of up to $700,000 to further his nology) Stanford University. or her research and educational efforts. —From an NSF announcement —From a White House announcement LMS Prizes Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowships The London Mathematical Society (LMS) has awarded a Awarded number of prizes for 2002. N. J. HITCHIN, Oxford University, received the Pólya Prize The Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow- for his contributions to geometry, the development of ship program of the Division of Mathematical Sciences of mathematics, and mathematical physics. The prize rec- the National Science Foundation (NSF) awards fellowships ognizes outstanding creativity in, imaginative exposition each year for postdoctoral research in pure mathematics, of, or distinguished contribution to mathematics within the applied mathematics and operations research, and statis- United Kingdom. tics. Listed below are the names of the fellowship recipi- The Senior Berwick Prize is awarded in recognition of ents for 2002, together with their Ph.D. institutions (in an outstanding piece of mathematical research that was parentheses) and the institutions where they will use their published by the LMS during the eight years ending De- fellowships. cember 31, 1999. JEREMY RICKARD, Bristol University, re- ANDREI H. CALDARARU (Cornell University) University of ceived the prize for two papers, “Idempotent modules in Pennsylvania; JOSEPH L. COFFEY (State University of New the stable category”, published in the Journal of the LMS, York at Stony Brook) Courant Institute, New York Univer- and “Splendid equivalences: Derived categories and per- sity; DOUGLAS P. ENRIGHT (Stanford University) University of mutation modules”, published in the Proceedings of the California, Los Angeles; HANS C. GROMOLL (University of LMS. California, San Diego) Eurandom, The Netherlands; SAMUEL The Naylor Prize and Lectureship in Applied Mathe- GRUSHEVSKY (Harvard University) Princeton University; MAR- matics is awarded for for outstanding lecturing abilities SHALL E. HAMPTON (University of Washington) University of and for work in, influence on, and contributions to applied Minnesota; SHELLY L. HARVEY (Rice University) University of mathematics and/or the applications of mathematics. The California, San Diego; TARA S. HOLM (Massachusetts Insti- 2002 Naylor Prize was given to MARK H. A. DAVIS, Imperial tute of Technology) University of California, Berkeley; BEN- College, for pioneering contributions to stochastic analy- JAMIN V. HOWARD (Stanford University) Harvard University; sis, stochastic control and filtering theory, and mathe- GEOFFREY C. HRUSKA (Cornell University) University of matical finance. Chicago; EDWARD M. HYDE (California Institute of Technol- The Whitehead Prizes are awarded to mathematicians who ogy) University of Minnesota; RUSSELL K. JACKSON (Brown Uni- are under the age of forty years, who were mainly educated versity) Boston University; ADAM R. KLIVANS (Massachusetts in the United Kingdom, and who are not already Fellows of Institute of Technology) Harvard University; CHRISTOPHER J. the Royal Society. They are intended to cover all fields of LEININGER (University of Texas, Austin) Columbia University; mathematics, including applied mathematics, mathemati- BRIAN O. LUCENA (Brown University) University of Washing- cal physics, and mathematical aspects of computer science. ton; JEREMY L. MARTIN (University