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Williamson Receives Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award
Geordie Williamson, professor at the University of Sydney, received the 2024 Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award. The award is a joint endeavor of the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to recognize outstanding achievements in the use of algorithms in mathematics, microscopy, and climate research. Artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science are driving developments in many areas of society—including in scientific research. The award, which is endowed with 1.5 million euros, went to Williamson, who uses AI for his fundamental work in mathematics.
—Max Planck Society
Dunn Wins 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
Alexander Dunn of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) won the 2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. “Dunn is a leading young researcher in the field of analytic number theory who has achieved several breakthroughs in the study of modular forms, half-integral weight forms, metaplectic forms and their connections to prime numbers and integer partitions,” according to the prize announcement.
The annual $10,000 prize is for “outstanding contributions by individuals not exceeding the age of 32 in areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan in a broad sense. The age limit has been set at 32 because Ramanujan achieved so much in his brief life of 32 years.” The prize will be awarded at an international conference in number theory held December 20–22, 2024, at the Srinivasa Ramanujan Centre of SASTRA University in Kumbakonam (Ramanujan’s hometown), South India.
—SASTRA Ramanujan Prize
Liu Wins 2024 Ramanujan Prize
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) have awarded the 2024 Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries to Ruochuan Liu, professor at the Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research (BICMR) at Peking University, China, “for his fundamental contributions to -adic Hodge theory, especially his foundational study of relative -adic Hodge theory and his remarkable work on rigidity and the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for -adic local systems.”
Liu obtained his BSc and master’s degree in mathematics from Peking University, and his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2008. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 2010; in 2012, he returned to BICMR, where he has made a series of breakthroughs in -adic Hodge theory, automorphic forms, and the Langlands program.
Liu’s work has received a number of recognitions, including the 2020 China Youth Science and Technology Award, the 2019 Tencent Xplorer prize, and the 2017 National Science Fund Award for Distinguished Young Scholars.
—International Mathematical Union
Apply Now for the EDGE Summer Program
Applications are due February 14, 2025, for the 2025 Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Summer Program, announced the Sylvia Bozeman and Rhonda Hughes EDGE Foundation.
The EDGE Summer Program is a four-week residential session designed to prepare a cohort of women and gender nonconforming individuals to thrive in their PhD programs in the mathematical sciences. The 2025 EDGE Summer Program will be held June 1–28, 2025, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Program activities include four core workshops in courses such as algebra, analysis, measure theory, and machine learning; daily collaborative problem sessions with advanced graduate student mentors; regular office hours and highly personalized feedback from facilitators; weekly colloquium on a variety of research topics; special discussions on equity and identity in mathematics, teaching practices, and other professional development skills.
The EDGE Foundation will cover all travel, room, and board expenses related to the summer program. Program participants also will receive a modest stipend.
Applicants to the program should be women or gender nonconforming individuals who: 1) are applying to PhD programs in the mathematical sciences or 2) just completed their first year in a PhD program in the mathematical sciences. Students from underrepresented minority groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Apply through MathPrograms at https://www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/1338. For more information, visit https://www.edgeforwomen.org/summer-session/. Please send questions to edgestaff@edgeforwomen.org.
—Sylvia Bozeman and Rhonda Hughes EDGE Foundation
AWM Names Fellows
The ninth class of Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) includes Katrina D. Barron (University of Notre Dame), Guozhen Lu (University of Connecticut), Marianne Korten (Kansas State University), Kathryn Leonard (Occidental College), Fengyan Li (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Lillian B. Pierce (Duke University), and Magdalena Daniela Toda (Texas Tech University).
The AWM Fellows program recognizes individuals who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences, consistent with the AWM mission: “to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.”
The ninth class of AWM Fellows will be recognized during the AWM reception at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle: January 10, 2024, 5–6:30 p.m.
—Association for Women in Mathematics
Leggett, Lin, Yin Honored for AWM Service
Anne Leggett, professor emerita, Loyola University Chicago, will receive the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Distinguished Service Award. This award recognizes an individual who has promoted and supported women in mathematics through exceptional and sustained volunteer service to the AWM. In addition to other service to the AWM, Leggett edited the AWM’s newsletter for 46 years, from Volume 7, Number 5, September–October 1977 to Volume 54, Number 1, January–February 2024.
Kuei-Nuan Lin, associate professor of mathematics, Penn State Greater Allegheny, and Mei Yin, professor of mathematics, University of Denver, will receive the 2025 AWM Service Award.
Lin will be recognized for her leadership of the AWM Mentor Network program, for her service on the Education and Outreach Portfolio Committee and the AWM-NSF Travel Grants Selection Committee, and for her work as an associate editor for the 2022 AWM Symposium Proceedings volume.
Yin will be recognized for founding and leading the AWM Student Chapter at the University of Denver for the past nine years; for supporting the AWM Women in Algebraic Combinatorics (WiAC) Research Network; and for her contributions to the NSF ADVANCE grant “Mobilizing Equity to Raise Inclusivity in STEM” (MERISTEM).
The awards will be presented at the AWM reception at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, January 10, 2024, 5–6:30 p.m.
—Association for Women in Mathematics