News Release

ANDREI SUSLIN RECEIVES
AMS COLE PRIZE

Contact at AMS: Dr. John H. Ewing, AMS Executive Director
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January 20, 2000

PROVIDENCE, RI --- Andrei Suslin of Northwestern University has won the 2000 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra. Presented by the American Mathematical Society, the Cole Prize is one of the highest distinctions given in the fields of number theory and algebra. The prize will be awarded at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC on January 20, 2000.

Suslin has done foundational and unifying work in mathematics. The prize citation states that he is receiving the Cole Prize "for his work on motivic cohomology. In particular, the prize is awarded for his foundational paper, joint with V. Voevodsky, `Bloch-Kato conjecture and motivic cohomology with finite coefficients,' (Proc. NATO ASI/CRM School, The Arithmetic and Geometry of Algebraic Cycles, Banff, Canada), for his unifying paper `Higher Chow groups and etale cohomology,' (Annals of Math. Studies, 1999), which establishes the relationship of S. Bloch's higher Chow groups to Suslin-Voevodsky motivic cohomology, and for the paper, written jointly with V. Franjou, E. Friedlander, and A. Scorichenko, `General linear groups and functor cohomology over finite fields,' (Annals of Math., v.150,1-65, 1999), which achieves extensive computations of EXT-groups for general linear groups."

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