The 2024 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences has been awarded to Peter Sarnak, Gopal Prasad Professor in the School of Mathematics, for his "development of the arithmetic theory of thin groups and the affine sieve, by bringing together number theory, analysis, combinatorics, dynamics, geometry, and spectral theory."
Frequent Visiting Professor Noga Alon has won the 2022 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. The prize has been compared to the Nobel and carries with it a monetary award of $1,200,000.
The 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Jean-Michel
Bismut (1984, 1994) and Jeff Cheeger (1972,
1977–78, 1995), former Members in the School of Mathematics. The
pair shares the award for their “remarkable insights that
have...
Luis Caffarelli, former
Professor in the School of Mathematics (1986–996) and former Member
in the School (2009), has been awarded the 2018 Shaw Prize in
Mathematical Sciences for his groundbreaking work on partial
differential equations, including...
