Mihnea Popa Receives 2005-2006 AMS Centennial Fellowship

June 7, 2005

Providence, RI---Mihnea Popa of Harvard University has been chosen to receive an AMS Centennial Fellowship for 2005-2006. These prestigious fellowships are awarded each year to between two and four outstanding mathematicians to help further their careers in research. The amount of the fellowship is $62,000, plus an expense allowance of $3,000. Fellows also receive a complimentary AMS membership for one year.

Popa received his Ph.D. in 2001 from University of Michigan. He has been a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University since 2001. Starting in the fall of 2005 he will be an assistant professor at University of Chicago. Popa's research is in the field of algebraic geometry. He plans to use his Centennial Fellowship at the University of Michigan and the University of Rome, as well as the University of Chicago.

Further information about the AMS Centennial Fellowship may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes/centennial-fellowship.html.

For more information, contact:
Michael Breen or Annette Emerson
AMS Public Awareness Officers
Email: paoffice@ams.org
Telephone: 401-455-4000
Fax: 401-331-3842

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