News Release
TERENCE TAO RECEIVES
AMS BÔCHER PRIZE
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January 7, 2002
PROVIDENCE, RI---Terence Tao of the University of California,
Los Angeles, will receive the 2002 Bôcher Memorial Prize.
Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society,
the Bôcher Prize recognizes outstanding papers in the
mathematical area of analysis. The prize will be awarded today at
the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, California.
Professor Tao is being honored for his recent fundamental
breakthrough on the problem of critical regularity in Sobolev
spaces of the wave maps equations, "Global Regularity of Wave Maps
I. Small critical Sobolev norm in high dimensions" (Int. Math.
Res. Notices (2001), no. 6, 299-328) and "Global Regularity of
Wave Maps II. Small Energy in two Dimensions" (to appear in
Comm. Math. Phys.).
Further information about AMS prizes may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.
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