The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is presenting several prizes at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego on January 7, 2008, including two prizes that are awarded jointly with two other mathematics organizations, the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement: GEORGE LUSZTIG of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for entirely reshaping representation theory, and in the process changing much of mathematics.
AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research: ENDRE SZEMEREDI of Rutgers University and the Alfred Renyi Institute in Budapest, for his landmark paper "On sets of integers containing no k elements in arithmetic progression", ACTA ARITHMETICA XXVII (1975), pages 199-245.
AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition: NEIL TRUDINGER of the Australian National University, for his book "Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order", written with the late David Gilbarg (Springer 1977; second edition 1983).
AMS Maxime Bocher Memorial Prize: ALBERTO BRESSAN of Pennsylvania State University, for his fundamental works on hyperbolic conservation laws; CHARLES FEFFERMAN of Princeton University, for his many fundamental contributions to various areas of analysis; and CARLOS KENIG of the University of Chicago, for his important contributions to harmonic analysis, partial differential equations (PDEs), and in particular to nonlinear dispersive PDEs.
AMS Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory: MANJUL BHARGAVA of Princeton University, for his revolutionary work on higher composition laws.
AMS Joseph Doob Prize: ENRICO BOMBIERI of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and WALTER GUBLER of the University of Dortmund in Germany, for their book "Heights in Diophantine Geometry" (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
AMS Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics: HIROSI OOGURI of the California Institute of Technology and ANDREW STROMINGER and CUMRUN VAFA of Harvard University, for their paper "Black Hole Attractors and the Topological String (Physical Review D, 70 (2004) 106007).
AMS Award for Distinguished Public Service: HERBERT CLEMENS of the Ohio State University, for his superb research in complex algebraic geometry, for his efforts in education at the local and national levels, and for his seminal role in the founding and continuation of the Park City/IAS Mathematics Institute.
AMS Levi L. Conant Prize: BRIAN CONREY, director of the American Institute of Mathematics in Palo Alto, California, for his article "The Riemann Hypothesis", AMS Notices, March 2003, pages 341-353 (available at http://www.ams.org/notices/200303/fea-conrey.pdf); and SHLOMO HOORY of IBM Haifa Research Labs, NATHAN LINIAL of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and AVI WIGDERSON of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, for their article "Expander graphs and their applications", Bulletin of the AMS, volume 43, number 4 (2006) 439-561 (available at http://www.ams.org/bulletin).
AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student: NATHAN KAPLAN, a student at Princeton University and at the University of Cambridge, for having written four impressive research papers in algebraic number theory, three of which have been accepted for publication.
JPBM Communications Award: CARL BIALIK of the Wall Street Journal, for his columns and blogs about the misuse of numbers and statistics throughout society.
Find out more about AMS prizes at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.
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