Clay Research Award
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The Clay Research Award is given annually by the Clay Mathematics Institute
to mathematician
s to recognize their achievement in mathematical research. The following mathematicians have received the award:
Clay Mathematics Institute
The Clay Mathematics Institute is a private, non-profit foundation, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Institute is dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge. It gives out various awards and sponsorships to promising mathematicians. The institute was founded in 1998...
to mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
s to recognize their achievement in mathematical research. The following mathematicians have received the award:
- 2011
- Yves Benoist and Jean-François Quint
- Jonathan PilaJonathan PilaJonathan S. Pila is an Australian mathematician at the University of Oxford. He won the 2011 Clay Research Award for his resolution of the André–Oort conjecture in the case of products of modular curves. In June of 2011, he was awarded the Senior Whitehead Prize by the London Mathematical Society...
- 2010
- Not awarded
- 2009
- Jean-Loup WaldspurgerJean-Loup WaldspurgerJean-Loup Waldspurger is a French mathematician working on the Langlands program and related areas.Waldspurger attained his doctorate at École normale supérieure in 1980, under supervision of Marie-France Vignéras. He was awarded the 2009 Clay Research Award for his results in p-adic harmonic...
- Ian AgolIan AgolIan Agol is an American mathematician who deals primarily with the topology of three-dimensional manifolds....
, Danny CalegariDanny CalegariDanny M. C. Calegari is the Richard Merkin Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, and is one of the recipients of the 2009 Clay Research Award for his work in geometric topology and geometric group theory....
and David GabaiDavid GabaiDavid Gabai, a mathematician, is currently a professor at Princeton University. Focused on low-dimensional topology and hyperbolic geometry, he is a leading researcher in those subjects....
- Jean-Loup Waldspurger
- 2008
- Clifford TaubesClifford TaubesClifford Henry Taubes is the William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and works in gauge field theory, differential geometry, and low-dimensional topology.-Early career:Taubes received his Ph.D...
- Claire VoisinClaire VoisinClaire Voisin is a French professor of mathematics and director of research at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu at the University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie...
- Clifford Taubes
- 2007
- Alex EskinAlex EskinAlex Eskin is a Russian American mathematician. He works on rational billiards and geometric group theory. For his contribution to joint work with David Fisher and Kevin Whyte establishing the quasi-isometric rigidity of sol, he was awarded the 2007 Clay Research Award.Eskin earned his doctorate...
- Christopher HaconChristopher HaconChristopher Derek Hacon is a mathematician with British, Italian and US nationalities. In 2009 he was awarded the Cole Prize for outstanding contribution to algebra, along with James McKernan. He was also awarded the Clay Research Award...
and James McKernanJames McKernanJames McKernan is a British mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at MIT in the United States.McKernan was the joint winner of the Cole Prize in 2009, and joint recipient of the Clay Research Award in 2007. Both honors were received jointly with his colleague Christopher Hacon.-External... - Michael HarrisMichael Harris (mathematician)Michael Howard Harris is an American mathematician. He made notable contributions to the Langlands program, for which he won the 2007 Clay Research Award...
and Richard TaylorRichard Taylor (mathematician)-External links:**...
- Alex Eskin
- 2005
- Manjul BhargavaManjul BhargavaManjul Bhargava is a Canadian-American mathematician of Indian origin. He is the R. Brandon Fradd Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University...
- Nils DenckerNils DenckerNils Jonas Dencker is a Swedish mathematician. He won the 2005 Clay Research Award for his proof of the Nirenberg–Treves conjecture.Dencker earned his doctorate from the University of Lund in 1981, under supervision of Lars Hörmander....
- Manjul Bhargava
- 2004
- Ben GreenBen Green (mathematician)Ben Joseph Green FRS is a British mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and number theory. He is the Herchel Smith Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.- Early years :...
- Gérard LaumonGérard LaumonGérard Laumon is a French mathematician. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Paris-Sud 11 University, Orsay.In 2004 Laumon and Ngô Bảo Châu received the Clay Research Award for the proof of the Langlands and Shelstad's Fundamental Lemma for unitary groups, a key component in the...
and Ngô Bảo ChâuNgo Bao ChauNgô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese and French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad. He is the first Vietnamese to receive the Fields Medal.- Biography :Chau was born in 1972, the...
- Ben Green
- 2003
- Richard Hamilton
- Terence TaoTerence TaoTerence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...
- 2002
- Oded SchrammOded SchrammOded Schramm was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory.-Biography:...
- Manindra AgrawalManindra AgrawalManindra Agrawal is a professor at the department of computer science and engineering and the Dean of Resource, Planning and Generation at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is also the recipient of the first Infosys Prize for Mathematics.-Early life:Manindra Agrawal obtained a...
- Oded Schramm
- 2001
- Edward WittenEdward WittenEdward Witten is an American theoretical physicist with a focus on mathematical physics who is currently a professor of Mathematical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study....
- Stanislav SmirnovStanislav SmirnovStanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov is a Russian mathematician currently working at the University of Geneva, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010. His research focuses on the fields of complex analysis, dynamical systems and probability theory.-Career:...
- Edward Witten
- 2000
- Alain ConnesAlain ConnesAlain Connes is a French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University.-Work:...
- Laurent LafforgueLaurent LafforgueLaurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician.He won 2 silver medals at International Mathematical Olympiad in 1984 and 1985....
- Alain Connes
- 1999
- Andrew WilesAndrew WilesSir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory...
- Andrew Wiles