Svetlana Jitomirskaya Receives 2005 AMS Satter Prize

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About the AMS AMS Membership Governance Giving to the AMS Prizes & Awards Contact Us 201 Charles Street Providence, RI 02904 USA Phone: 401-455-4000 or 800-321-4AMS Or email us at ams@ams.org Open Positions	Svetlana Jitomirskaya Receives 2005 AMS Satter Prize Contact: Mike Breen or Annette Emerson AMS Public Awareness Officers paoffice@ams.org Phone: 401-455-4000 or 404-460-6922 (Joint Math Meetings Press Room) January 6, 2005 Providence, RI: Svetlana Jitomirskaya of the University of California, Irvine, is receiving the 2005 AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics. Presented every two years by the American Mathematical Society, the Satter Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. The Satter Prize is awarded every two years to recognize an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous five years. Established in 1990 with funds donated by Joan S. Birman, the prize honors the memory of Birman's sister, Ruth Lyttle Satter. Satter earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and then joined the research staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories during World War II. After raising a family she received a Ph.D. in botany at the age of forty-three from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where she later became a faculty member. Her research on the biological clocks in plants earned her recognition in the U.S. and abroad. Birman requested that the prize be established to honor her sister's commitment to research and to encouraging women in science. Jitomirskaya is recognized for her pioneering work on non-perturbative quasiperiodic localization, in particular for results in her papers (1) "Metal-insulator transition for the almost Mathieu operator," Ann. of Math. (2) 150 (1999), no. 3, 1159-1175, and (2) with J. Bourgain, "Absolutely continuous spectrum for 1D quasiperiodic operators," Invent. Math. 148 (2002), no. 3, 453-463. Find out more about AMS prizes at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards. # # # # # Founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship, the 29,000-member American Mathematical Society fulfills its mission through programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life. 5