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Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics 2023 Jason Miller; Scott Sheffield
The 2023 Leonard Eisenbud Prize is awarded to Jason P. Miller and Scott Sheffield for works on random two-dimensional geometries, and in particular on Liouville Quantum Gravity.
Prize announcement as seen in the news release.
Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics 2020 Kevin Costello
The 2020 Leonard Eisenbud Prize in Mathematics and Physics is awarded to Kevin Costello for his contributions to the mathematical foundations of quantum field theory and his gauge-theoretic explanation of solutions to the quantum Yang-Baxter equations.
Prize announcement as seen in the news release.
Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics 2017 Laszlo Erdos; Horng-Tzer Yau
Fourth award: to László Erdos and Horng-Tzer Yau for proving the universality of eigenvalue statistics of Wigner random matrices.
Prize announcement as seen in Notices of the AMS and in the news release.
Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics 2014 Gregory W. Moore
Third award: to Gregory W. Moore for his group of works on the structure of four-dimensional supersymmetric theories with extended supersymmetry.
Prize announcement as seen in Notices of the AMS.
Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics 2011 Herbert Spohn
Second award: to Herbert Spohn for his group of works on stochastic growth processes.
Prize announcement as seen in Notices of the AMS.
Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics 2008 Hirosi Ooguri; Andrew Strominger; Cumrun Vafa
First award: to Hirosi Ooguri, Andrew Strominger, and Cumrun Vafa for their paper "Black hole attractors and the topological string", Physical Review D (3) 70 (2004), 106007.
Prize announcement as seen in Notices of the AMS.