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[...] With a focus on students from groups which have traditionally been underrepresented in the mathematical sciences, RUSIS gets students involved in research projects in statistics, while also crucially [...]

[...] Ayers) won an Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of US$50,000 and Best of Category - Mathematical Sciences award of $5,000 (that includes a $1,000 grant to his school and to the affiliated fair he [...]

[...] George Lusztig has been awarded the 2014 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. (Photo: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) Lusztig, the Abdun-Nur Professor of [...]

[...] State University of Denver (second from left), and Mutiara Sondjaja, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (second from right). Project NExT is a professional development [...]

[...] turbulence--and in computing when faced with uncertainty. His previous awards include the National Academy Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, the Norbert Wiener Prize of the AMS and [...]

[...] from Brandeis University under the direction of Richard Palais and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. Regarding Lamport's work, ACM President [...]

[...] 2001. He received his bachelor’s degree and PhD from Northwestern and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the Royal [...]

[...] and the AMS Distinguished Public Service Award, and was the first Hispanic elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1992). In 2010 the department received the AMS Mathematics Programs That [...]

[...] ", Bulletin of the AMS 36 1-26 (1999). Sarnak also received the AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2005, for his fundamental contributions to number theory and in particular his book [...]

[...] , 2001), the Ostrowski Prize (with Henryk Iwaniec and Peter Sarnak, 2001), the Cole Prize in Number Theory (with Henryk Iwaniec, 2002), and the Shaw Prize (with Robert Langlands, 2007). Terence Tao, [...]

[...] Prize for Science for his groundbreaking contributions to algebraic geometry and number theory. Faltings is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn and [...]

[...] an infinite number of twin primes". This year Zhang also received the AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory. His work built on that of Daniel Goldston, János Pintz, and Cem Yildirim, who shared [...]

[...] The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected 204 new fellows and 16 foreign honorary members for 2014. [...]

[...] in 1964. He won the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences in 2005 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and [...]

[...] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Society of London, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1999 he received the Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering [...]

[...] of the AMS (2013), a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2007), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2002), and a former director of the Mathematical Sciences Research [...]

[...] Yakov G. Sinai, Princeton University and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, is being [...]

[...] , which is of great importance in symplectic topology. Sullivan received his Ph.D. from Princeton University (1965), under the direction of William Browder. He has held positions at Princeton, MIT, [...]

[...] Simon A. Levin, Princeton University, has been awarded the 2014 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for his research [...]

[...] ," the Wolf Foundation said. Sarnak is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He received his PhD [...]

[...] Mathematics Meetings in January in San Antonio, Texas. Oh is honored for her "fundamental contributions to the fields of dynamics on homogeneous spaces, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, [...]

[...] 1-26 (1999). Sarnak also received the AMS Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2005, for his fundamental contributions to number theory and in particular his book Random Matrices, Frobenius Eigenvalues and [...]

[...] , Russian Academy of Sciences, is being awarded the 2014 Abel Prize "for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics." Sinai [...]

[...] of the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) 2013 A.M. Turing Award "For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention [...]