News Release
YAKOV ELIASHBERG WINS
AMS VEBLEN PRIZE
Michael Breen, or Annette Emerson, AMS Public Awareness Officers
Email: pa-office@ams.org
Telephone: 401-455-4000
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January 11, 2001
PROVIDENCE, RIóYakov Eliashberg, a mathematician at Stanford University,
has won the 2001 Oswald Veblen Prize. Presented by the American Mathematical
Society, the Veblen Prize is one of the most prestigious awards recognizing
outstanding research in geometry. The prize will be awarded today
at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans.
Professor Eliashberg is being honored for is work in symplectic and
contact topology. The prize citation mentions in particular a number of
his most influential papers, which appeared in top mathematical publications.
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