Ivan Shestakov and Ualbai Umirbaev Receive 2007 AMS Moore Prize

January 8, 2007

Providence, RI:

Ivan Shestakov of the University of Sao Paulo and Ualbai Umirbaev of the Eurasian National University have received the 2007 E. H. Moore Research Article Prize. The prize is awarded every three years for an outstanding research article that appeared in one of the primary AMS research journals within the previous six years. The prize was awarded on Saturday, January 6, 2007, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Shestakov and Umirbaev are honored for their two ground-breaking papers, both published in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society :

"The tame and the wild automorphisms of polynomial rings in three variables," 17 (2004), no. 1, 197--227; and

"Poisson brackets and two-generated subalgebras of rings of polynomials," 17 (2004), no. 1, 181--196).

The prize citation states that these papers "develop powerful new techniques to address the structure of automorphism groups of polynomial algebras." The innovative techniques introduced in these papers are already resulting in further major applications.

Find out more about AMS prizes at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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