Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
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The Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry is an award granted by the American Mathematical Society
for notable research in geometry
or topology
. It was founded in 1961 in memory of Oswald Veblen
. The Veblen Prize is now worth US$5000, and awarded every three years.
American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards and prizes to mathematicians.The society is one of the...
for notable research in geometry
Geometry
Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....
or topology
Topology
Topology is a major area of mathematics concerned with properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, such as deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing...
. It was founded in 1961 in memory of Oswald Veblen
Oswald Veblen
Oswald Veblen was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. He proved the Jordan curve theorem in 1905.-Life:...
. The Veblen Prize is now worth US$5000, and awarded every three years.
List of recipients
- 1964 Christos PapakyriakopoulosChristos PapakyriakopoulosChristos Dimitriou Papakyriakopoulos, commonly known as "Papa" , was a Greek mathematician specializing in geometric topology. He worked in isolation at Athens University being awarded a Ph.D on the recommendation of Carathéodory...
- 1964 Raoul BottRaoul BottRaoul Bott, FRS was a Hungarian mathematician known for numerous basic contributions to geometry in its broad sense...
- 1966 Stephen SmaleStephen SmaleSteven Smale a.k.a. Steve Smale, Stephen Smale is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966, and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley .-Education and career:He entered the University of...
- 1966 Morton BrownMorton BrownMorton Brown is an American mathematician, who specializes in geometric topology.In 1958 Brown earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison under R. H. Bing. From 1960 to 1962 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study...
and Barry MazurBarry Mazur-Life:Born in New York City, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present ROTC requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959,... - 1971 Robion KirbyRobion KirbyRobion Cromwell Kirby is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in low-dimensional topology...
- 1971 Dennis SullivanDennis SullivanDennis Parnell Sullivan is an American mathematician. He is known for work in topology, both algebraic and geometric, and on dynamical systems. He holds the Albert Einstein Chair at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and is a professor at Stony Brook University.-Work in topology:He...
- 1976 William ThurstonWilliam ThurstonWilliam Paul Thurston is an American mathematician. He is a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds...
- 1976 James Harris SimonsJames Harris SimonsJames Harris "Jim" Simons is an American hedge fund manager, mathematician, and philanthropist.In 1982, Simons founded Renaissance Technologies, a private investment firm based in New York with over $15 billion under management; Simons is still at the helm, as CEO, of what is now one of the...
- 1981 Mikhail Gromov
- 1981 Shing-Tung YauShing-Tung YauShing-Tung Yau is a Chinese American mathematician working in differential geometry. He was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China into a family of scholars from Jiaoling, Guangdong Province....
- 1986 Michael FreedmanMichael FreedmanMichael Hartley Freedman is a mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.Freedman was born...
- 1991 Andrew CassonAndrew CassonAndrew John Casson FRS is a mathematician, an expert on geometric topology.Casson is the Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics at Yale University in the United States where he served as department chair between 2004 and 2007. His Ph.D. advisor at the University of Liverpool was C. T. C...
and 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... - 1996 Richard HamiltonRichard Hamilton (professor)Richard Streit Hamilton is Davies Professor of mathematics at Columbia University.He received his B.A in 1963 from Yale University and Ph.D. in 1966 from Princeton University. Robert Gunning supervised his thesis...
and Gang TianGang TianTian Gang is a Chinese mathematician and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is known for his contributions to geometric analysis and quantum cohomology, among other fields... - 2001 Jeff CheegerJeff CheegerJeff Cheeger , is a mathematician. Cheeger is professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in New York City. His main interests are differential geometry and its applications to topology and analysis.-Biography:He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A....
, Yakov EliashbergYakov EliashbergYakov Eliashberg is a Russian mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from Leningrad University in 1972 under the direction of Vladimir Rokhlin. From 1972 to 1979 he taught at the Syktyvkar State University of Komi Republic of Russia and from 1980 to 1987 worked in industry as the head of a computer...
and Michael J. HopkinsMichael J. HopkinsMichael Jerome Hopkins is an American mathematician known for work in algebraic topology.-Life:He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1984 under the direction of Mark Mahowald. In 1984 he also received his D.Phil... - 2004 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....
- 2007 Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz MrowkaTomasz MrowkaTomasz Mrowka is a Polish American mathematician. He has been the Singer Professor of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 2010. A graduate of MIT, he received the Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1988 under the direction of Clifford Taubes and Robion Kirby...
; Peter OzsváthPeter OzsváthPeter Steven Ozsváth is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Zoltán Szabó, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds....
and Zoltán SzabóZoltán SzabóZoltán Szabó is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Peter Ozsváth, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds. For this contribution to the field of topology, Ozsváth and Szabó were awarded the 2007 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.He got his... - 2010 Tobias ColdingTobias ColdingTobias Holck Colding is a Danish mathematician. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Torben Holck Colding and Benedicte Holck Colding. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1992 at the University of Pennsylvania under Chris Croke. Since 2005 Colding has been a professor of mathematics at MIT...
and William Minicozzi IIWilliam Minicozzi IIWilliam Minicozzi II is an American mathematician. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1967.-Career:Minicozzi graduated from Princeton University in 1990 and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1994 under the direction of Richard Schoen...
; Paul SeidelPaul SeidelPaul Seidel is a Swiss-Italian mathematician. He is currently a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a former member of the mathematics faculty at the University of Chicago...