Winners of the 10th annual Breakthrough Prizes were announced today, including current Veblen Research Instructor Sarah Peluse (2022 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize) and past Members Takuro Mochizuki (2022 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics) and Hong Wang (2022 MMNFP).
Camillo De Lellis, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications. Additionally, Elia Bruè, current Member in the School, has been awarded the academy's Gioacchino Iapichino Prize.
The Gruber Foundation and International Astronomical Union (IAU)
has announced that Matias Zaldarriaga,
Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, is a
recipient of the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize. Zaldarriaga shares
the honor with M...
The National Academy of Sciences has elected 120 new members in
2021, among them nine alumni in the IAS Schools of
Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science.
The IAS scholars elected to the academy in 2021 are as
follows:
Avi
Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was named a
recipient of the 2021 Abel Prize, which he shares jointly with
László
Lovász—a former IAS visiting professor—of Eötvös Loránd
University. They are cited by the Abel Committee “for...
Puragra Guhathakurta, Member
(1989–92) in the School of Natural Sciences,
and Ellen Zweibel, Member (1977–78)
in the School, have been named 2021 fellows of the American
Astronomical Society (AAS).
Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon
Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has been
awarded the 2020 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History
for The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten
Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us...