<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">Special issue on IMU Prizes and Medals at ICM 2014 in Seoul<br><br>The highest point of the International Congress of Mathematicians is<br>the announcement of prize winners at the opening ceremony. This just<br>occurred on August 13, 2014 in Seoul, Korea, where the President of<br>Korea, Park Geun-hye, presented the IMU awards (a medal and a cheque<br>for each of the prize winners): Fields Medal, Rolf Nevanlinna Prize,<br>Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, Chern Medal and Leelavati Prize. The 2014<br>prize winners are:<br><br>FIELDS MEDAL (recognizing outstanding mathematical achievement):<br>recipients are listed in alphabetical order of last names:<br><br>- Artur Avila of CNRS Paris (France) and IMPA (Brasil)<br>for his profound contributions to dynamical systems theory, which have<br>changed the face of the field, using the powerful idea of<br>renormalization as a unifying principle.<br><br>- Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University (USA)<br>for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which<br>he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank<br>of elliptic curves.<br><br>- Martin Hairer of Warwick University (UK)<br>for his outstanding contributions to the theory of stochastic partial<br>differential equations, and in particular for the creation of a theory<br>of regularity structures for such equations.<br><br>- Maryam Mirzakhani of Stanford University (USA)<br>for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of<br>Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.<br><br><br>ROLF NEVANLINNA PRIZE (honoring distinguished achievements in<br>mathematical aspects of information science):<br><br>- Subhash Khot of New York University (USA)<br>for his prescient definition of the “Unique Games” problem,and<br>leading the effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role<br>in the study of efficient approximation of optimization problems; his<br>work has led to breakthroughs in algorithmic design and approximation<br>hardness, and to new exciting interactions between computational<br>complexity, analysis and geometry.<br><br><br>CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS PRIZE (for outstanding mathematical contributions<br>with significant impact outside of mathematics):<br><br>- Stanley Osher of University of California (USA)<br>for his influential contributions to several fields in applied<br>mathematics, and for his far-ranging inventions that have changed our<br>conception of physical, perceptual, and mathematical concepts, giving<br>us new tools to apprehend the world.<br><br><br>CHERN MEDAL (awarded to an individual whose accomplishments warrant<br>the highest level of recognition for outstanding achievements in the<br>field of mathematics):<br><br>- Phillip Griffiths of Institute of Advanced Studies (USA)<br>for his groundbreaking and transformative development of<br>transcendental methods in complex geometry, particularly his seminal<br>work in Hodge theory and periods of algebraic varieties.<br><br><br>LEELAVATI PRIZE, sponsored by Infosys (for outstanding contributions<br>to public outreach in mathematics by an individual):<br><br>- Adrian Paenza of Buenos Aires University (Argentina)<br>for his decisive contributions to changing the mind of a whole country<br>about the way it perceives mathematics in daily life, and in<br>particular for his books, his TV programs, and his unique gift of<br>enthusiasm and passion in communicating the beauty and joy of<br>mathematics.<br><br><br>More details on the prizes including biodata, laudations, and work<br>profiles of the prize winners, can be found at:<br><a href="http://www.icm2014.org/prizes">http://www.icm2014.org/prizes</a><br><br>The following page<br><a href="http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes">www.mathunion.org/general/prizes</a><br>provides access to the PowerPoint presentation shown in the award<br>ceremony and lists the members of the various prize selection<br>committees.<br><br>Details about the physical medals and the cash awards can be found at<br><a href="http://www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/physical-medals-and-cash-awards">www.mathunion.org/general/prizes/physical-medals-and-cash-awards</a><br><br>The ICM is also hosting the ICM EMMY NOETHER LECTURE. The 2014<br>lecturer is Georgia Benkart from the University of Wisconsin, for her<br>fundamental contributions to several branches of Lie theory.<br><br>M</blockquote></div></blockquote></body></html>