Mark Haiman Receives 2004 AMS Moore Research Article Prize

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January 8, 2004

PROVIDENCE, RI---Mark Haiman of the University of California, Berkeley, is receiving the 2004 E. H. Moore Research Article Prize. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society, the Moore Prize recognizes an outstanding research article that appeared in one of the AMS primary research journals. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Phoenix, Arizona.

Haiman is honored for his paper "Hilbert schemes, polygraphs, and the Macdonald positivity conjecture," Journal of the AMS, 14 (2001), 941-1006. This paper solves two longstanding open problems in algebraic combinatorics, through the development of remarkable new notions in algebraic geometry and a tour-de-force derivation in commutative algebra. The prize citation states: "Haiman's paper has within the last two years already led to numerous other new developments at the interface of combinatorics, algebraic geometry, and representation theory."

Further information about AMS prizes may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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