Providence, RI---The American Mathematical Society is presenting several prizes at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, including two prizes that are awarded jointly with two other mathematics organizations, the Mathematical Association of America and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
AMS Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition: DAVID MUMFORD of Brown University for "his beautiful expository accounts of a host of aspects of algebraic geometry".
AMS Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research: KAREN UHLENBECK, University of Texas at Austin "for her foundational contributions in analytic aspects of mathematical gauge theory".
AMS Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement: HENRY P. MCKEAN, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, "for his rich and magnificent mathematical career".
AMS Veblen Prize: PETER KRONHEIMER of Harvard University and TOMASZ MROWKA of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "for their joint contributions to both three- and four-dimensional topology through the development of deep analytical techniques and applications"; and PETER OZSVATH of Columbia University and ZOLTAN SZABO of Princeton University "for the contributions they have made to 3- and 4-dimensional topology through their Heegaard Floer homology theory".
AMS Satter Prize: CLAIRE VOISIN, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu in Paris, France, "for her deep contributions to algebraic geometry, and in particular for her recent solutions to two long-standing open problems".
AMS-SIAM Wiener Prize: CRAIG TRACY of the University of California at Davis and HAROLD WIDOM of the University of California at Santa Cruz for "deep and original work on Random Matrix Theory, a subject which has remarkable applications across the scientific spectrum".
AMS Moore Prize: IVAN SHESTAKOV of the University of Sao Paulo and UALBAI UMIRBAEV of the Eurasian National University, for their two groundbreaking papers that "develop powerful new techniques to address the structure of automorphism groups of polynomial algebras" (Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 17 (2004), no. 1, 197--227; and 17 (2004), no. 1, 181--196).
AMS Robbins Prize: SAMUEL P. FERGUSON of the National Security Agency and THOMAS C. HALES for a paper proving the Kepler Conjecture (Annals of Mathematics, 162 (2005), 1065–1185).
AMS Conant Prize: JEFFREY WEEKS, independent scholar residing in New York state, for an article that explains how extremely sensitive measurements of microwave radiation across the sky provide information about the origins and shape of the universe (AMS Notices, June/July 2004).
AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize: Daniel Kane, an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for "a research record that would be the envy of many professional mathematicians".
Find out more about AMS prizes at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.
Founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship, the more than 30,000-member American Mathematical Society fulfills its mission through programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life.