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The 2023 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize is awarded to Panagiota Daskalopoulos of Columbia University and Natasa Sesum of Rutgers University for their groundbreaking work in the study of ancient solutions to geometric evolution equations..

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The 2021 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize is awarded to Kaisa Matomäki for her work (much of it joint with Maksym Radziwill) opening up the field of multiplicative functions in short intervals in a completely unexpected and very fruitful way, and in particular in their breakthrough paper, Multiplicative functions in short intervals (Annals of Math. 183 (2016), 1015–1056).

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The 2019 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics was awarded to Maryna Viazovska, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), for her groundbreaking work in discrete geometry and her spectacular solution to the sphere-packing problem in dimension eight.

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Fourteenth award: to Laura DeMarco for her fundamental contributions to complex dynamics, potential theory, and the emerging field of arithmetic dynamics.

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Thirteenth award: to Hee Oh for her fundamental contributions to the fields of dynamics on homogeneous spaces, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, and applications to number theory.

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Twelfth award: to Maryam Mirzakhani for her deep contributions to the theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces.

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Eleventh award: to Amie Wilkinson for her remarkable contributions to the field of ergodic theory of partially hyperbolic dynamical systems.

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Tenth award: to Laure Saint-Raymond for for her fundamental work on the hydrodynamic limits of the Boltzmann equation in the kinetic theory of gases.

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Ninth award: to Claire Voisin for her deep contributions to algebraic geometry, and in particular for her recent solutions to two long-standing open problems: the Kodaira problem ( On the homotopy types of compact Kähler and complex projective manifolds, Inventiones Mathematicae, 157 (2004), no. 2, 329-343) and Green's Conjecture ( Green's canonical syzygy conjecture for generic curves of odd genus, Compositio Mathematica, 141 (2005), no. 5, 1163-1190; and Green's generic syzygy conjecture for curves of even genus lying on a K3 surface, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 4 (2002), no. 4, 363-404).

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Eighth award: to Svetlana Jitomirskaya 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.

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Seventh award: to Abigail Thompson for her outstanding work in 3-dimensional topology.

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Sixth award: to Karen E. Smith for her outstanding work in commutative algebra, and to Sijue Wu for her work on a long-standing problem in the water wave equation.

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Fifth award: to Bernadette Perrin-Riou for her number theoretical research on p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory.

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Fourth award: to Ingrid Daubechies for her deep and beautiful analysis of wavelets and their applications.

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Third award: to Sun-Yung Alice Chang for her deep contributions to the study of partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds and in particular for her work on extremal problems in spectral geometry and the compactness of isospectral metrics within a fixed conformal class on a compact 3-manifold.

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Second award: to Lai-Sang Young for her leading role in the investigation of the statistical (or ergodic) properties of dynamical systems.

First award: to Dusa McDuff for her outstanding work during the past five years on symplectic geometry.