Recent Faculty Research Prizes
- Distinguished University Professor James
Yorke has just been named
one of the two winners of the Japan
Prize for 2003, awarded by the Science and
Technology Foundation of Japan. See this article in the
Baltimore Sun and this
article in the Washington Post.
- Professor Richard Schwartz
has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for
2003.
- At the Second International
Congress of Chinese Mathematicians in Taipei
in December, 2001, Sijue Wu was awarded the 2001
Morningside Silver Medal in Mathematics for her work on water wave problems,
and Jiu-Kang Yu was awarded the Chern Prize
for his work in number theory, algebraic geometry, and representation
theory.
- Stephen Kudla
was awarded a Year 2000 Max-Planck-Forschungspreis
by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the Alexander von
Humboldt-Stiftung in Germany
for his research in number theory. See the prize
citation for a
more detailed description.
Kudla gave one of the Issai Schur Memorial Lectures in Tel Aviv
in March, and the 17th Kuwait Foundation Lecture at
the University of Cambridge in June.
- Sijue Wu
has been awarded the
Satter Prize
of the American Mathematical
Society, which is given every two years to recognize an outstanding
contribution to mathematical research by a woman in the previous five
years. Sijue was honored for "her work on a longstanding problem on
the water wave equation." In articles that appeared in
Inventiones and the
Journal of the AMS, Sijue
established the well-posedness of the full water wave problem. This
resolved a problem in fluid mechanics that had been open and actively
investigated for a hundred years.
- Assistant Professors Jiu-Kang
Yu and
Konstantina Trivisa
were awarded
Sloan
Research Fellowships. Only 20 of these prestigious fellowships
are awarded each year to the best mathematicians no more than six years
past the date of Ph.D.
- Five faculty members, Steve
Kudla,
Dan Rudolph,
Rich Schwartz,
Eitan Tadmor, and
Sijue Wu, gave invited addresses at the
International Congress of
Mathematicians in Beijing in 2002.
- One of the June 2001
talks in the Séminaire Bourbaki
in Paris dealt in part with the research of
Dave Levermore on
the Boltzmann equation.
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