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Clay Research Fellows 2024 Announced
The Clay Mathematics Institute is pleased to announce that Ishan Levy and Mehtaab Sawhney have been awarded Clay Research Fellowships. Each has been appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for five years beginning July 1, 2024. Clay Research Fellowships are awarded on the basis of the exceptional quality of candidates’ research and their promise to become mathematical leaders.
Levy will receive his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2024 under the supervision of Michael Hopkins. “Levy is known for his deep and ingenious contributions to homotopy theory. His new techniques in algebraic K-theory have led to solutions of many old problems. …He is most renowned for his work on Ravenel’s ‘Telescope Conjecture.’”
Sawhney will receive his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2024 under the supervision of Yufei Zhao. “While still a graduate student, Sawhney has achieved a stunning number of breakthroughs on fundamental problems across extremal combinatorics, probability theory, and theoretical computer science. …His remarkable body of work has already transformed swathes of combinatorics.”
—Clay Mathematics Institute
Brydges Wins Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Physical Society (APS) are pleased to announce David Brydges as the recipient of the 2024 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, “for achievements in the fields of constructive quantum field theory and rigorous statistical mechanics, especially the introduction of new techniques including random walk representation in spin systems, the lace expansion, and mathematically rigorous implementations of the renormalization group.”
Born in Chester, UK, Brydges recalls exploring the world around him from an early age, mesmerized by technology and the natural world. He earned his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He is currently a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of British Columbia.
Named after Dannie N. Heineman, an engineer, business executive, and philanthropic sponsor of the sciences, the prize was established in 1959 by the Heineman Foundation for Research, Education, Charitable and Scientific Purposes, Inc. This annual award of $10,000 recognizes significant contributions within the field of mathematical physics and was to have been presented at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis.
—American Institute of Physics
Journal of Complexity Lauds 2023 Best Paper
The 2023 Best Paper Award of the Journal of Complexity has been awarded to “Sampling numbers of smoothness classes via -minimization,” by Thomas Jahn, Tino Ullrich, and Felix Voigtlaender, published in Volume 79, December 23, Article 101786.
The $4,000 prize will be divided between the winners. Each author will also receive a plaque to be presented at the Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing Conference (MCQMC), August 18–23, 2024, Waterloo, Canada.
—Journal of Complexity