Extractions: 70 Years Ago in Science News Week of Aug. 24, 2002; Vol. 162, No. 8 Fields Medals were awarded to two mathematicians, Laurent Lafforgue and Vladimir Voevodsky, who forged new links between different branches of mathematics. References: 2002. Lafforgue and Voevodsky awarded Fields Medals. American Mathematical Society. Aug. 20. Available at http://www.ams.org/dynamic_archive/home-news.html#fields Additional information about the recipients can be found at http://www.ams.org/ams/fields2002-background.html Further Readings: 2002. Institute for Advanced Study faculty member Vladimir Voevodsky wins 2002 Fields Medal. Institute for Advanced Study press release. Aug. 20. Available at http://www.admin.ias.edu/pr/press_announcements.htm 2002. Institute for Advanced Study appoints Vladimir Voevodsky to faculty. Institute for Advanced Study press release. Feb. 28. Available at http://www.admin.ias.edu/pr/press_announcements.htm
Mathematics Library: Useful Websites For Mathematics Day Mathematics Genealogy Project. fields medal Fields Institute FieldsMedal Winners. Institutes Banach International Mathematical http://www.nd.edu/~mathlib/resources/math/
Wolfram Research, Inc. Timothy Gowers earned a gold medal for the UK. He would go on to win thefields medal in 1998. He would go on to win the fields medal in 1998. http://imo.wolfram.com/morefacts.html
Extractions: IMO is being held in Washington, DC, USA. 83 countries are participating. IMO was held in Taejon, Korea. 82 countries were represented. To commemorate the event, Korea issued a postage stamp There were 39 gold medals, 71 silver medals, and 119 bronze medals awarded. All six representatives for China earned gold medals: Zhiwei Yun, Zhipeng Liu, Xin Li, Qihui Zhu, Xinyi Yuan, and Zhongtao Wu. Top scorers were Alexandr Usnich (Belarus), Zhiwei Yun (China), Alexei Poiarkov (Russia), and Alexandre Gaifoulline (Russia). Each had 42 points, a perfect score. Kentaro Nagao earned his third gold medal for Japan. Vladimir Dremov earned his third gold medal for Russia. Reid Barton earned his third gold medal for the U.S. He will be returning in 2001. IMO was held in Bucharest, Romania. 81 countries were represented. There were 38 gold medals, 70 silver medals, and 118 bronze medals awarded. Romania became the first country to host IMO five times. Top scorers were Tamás Terpai (Hungary), Stefan Laurentiu Hornet (Romania), and Maksym Fedorchuk (Ukraine), who earned 39 points each. Tamás Terpai earned his third gold medal for Hungary.
Elisha Netanyahu Memorial Lectures The Euler CharacteristicTheme and Variations; Professor Lars V. Ahlfors, HarvardUniversity, Recipient of the fields medal and the Wolf Foundation Prize. http://www.math.technion.ac.il/newmath/net-lect.html
Extractions: ELISHA NETANYAHU MEMORIAL LECTURES The Elisha Netanyahu Memorial Lecture Series was established to honor the memory of the mathematician Elisha Netanyahu (1912-1986) , who served the Technion from 1946 until his retirement in 1980. The following is the list of distinguished mathematicians who have presented lectures in this series: Professor Paul Erdos , Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Mathematical Research Links Journal Impact Factors (II). Science Citation Database. Mathematics SubjectClassification. fields medal 1 , fields medal 2 fields medal 3. IAS. http://www.math.tamu.edu/~zsfeng/math.html
NESTA Futurelab - Learning Article - Number Crunchers The fields medal is the highest accolade a mathematician can be awarded. Thefields medal is the highest accolade a mathematician can be awarded. http://www.nestafuturelab.org/articles/learn07.htm
Extractions: The mathematician John Nash (played by Russell Crowe in the movie A Beautiful Mind ) did not win one; the fictitious Harvard mathematician who tutored the misfit maths genius played by Matt Damon in the film Good Will Hunting did. The Fields Medal is the highest accolade a mathematician can be awarded. The most colourful is that he was miffed because his wife had an affair with a prominent Swedish mathematician. Nobel never married, however. The most likely reason was that Nobel viewed mathematics as a tool used by science, not a science in itself. In any event, it is harder to win a Fields Medal than a Nobel Prize. For one thing, they are awarded only every four years and, second, the recipient has to be under 40, in keeping with Fields' desire that the medals serve to encourage. The medals are awarded by the International Mathematical Union, on the advice of a selection committee of top mathematicians from around the world. Made of gold, it is struck at the Royal Canadian Mint. One side has a picture of Archimedes and bears the inscription (in Latin): "To transcend one's spirit and to take hold of [to master] the world." The other side reads (also in Latin): "Mathematicians congregated from the whole world awarded [this medal] for outstanding writings." Both of this year's medallists won their awards for groundbreaking research that brings mathematicians closer to being able to see how seemingly different areas of mathematics are, in fact, connected. Lafforgue made a major advance in what mathematicians call the Langlands Program, providing new connections between number theory and analysis.
THE MATH ENQUIRER fields medal At the 1924 International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, aresolution was adopted that at each ICM, two gold medals should be awarded to http://www.humboldt.edu/~math/currentevents/colloquim/archives/fall_02/nov01-02.
Extractions: Volume 02 Fall Issue 11 For People With Inquiring Minds October 31, 2002 Matrix thats Fit A nyone who has tried to get slimmer knows its easy to lose those first few pounds. But as we approach our ideal target weight, those last few pounds are much more difficult to shed. We do not want to resort to dangerous or drastic measures. But the benefits of being in good shape are numerous. And we usually can tell by inspection when someone is in shape. The same is true for matrices. A diagonal matrix is incredibly fit (we can clearly see its eigenvalues). A triangular matrix is also in good shape, as far as looks go. We will take any dense matrix and quickly whip it into near-triangular shape using safe methods that preserve the eigenvalues. But getting a matrix into triangular form while preserving the eigenvalues is a more difficult challenge. Bulges appear that must be chased away. But if we are persistent, the matrix will approach the ideal triangular form, and the eigenvalues will be rippling on the main diagonal like the abdominal muscles on a bodybuilder. Jeff Haag has been teaching mathematics at Humboldt since 1990. Prior to that he spent four years getting whipped into mathematical shape at Washington State University. The main result of his thesis there was a new way to whip matrices into triangular form while preserving their eigenvalues. As with a fad diet, some benefited from his results, but most are sticking with more established entry-loss programs, or letting their matrices remain fat. (He means dense, or full.) He is currently teaching Math 344, 241 (Linear Algebra), 240 (Mathematical Thought), and 210 (Calculus III). He enjoys running and can be reached at
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WMY2000 8 Canada He established the world's highest award for achievement in mathematics, now knowninternationally as the fields medal (and often referred to as the Nobel http://wmy2000.math.jussieu.fr/8_canada.html
Extractions: WMY 2000 in Canada In the Spring of 1997, the Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) created a Committee for WMY 2000, with a mandate to develop proposals for events during the year 2000 to make mathematics more visible in Canada. It was suggested that these events should be noticeably different from standard CMS activities, should recognize the diversity of mathematics and mathematical interests in Canada and should be imaginative, while recognizing the three aims of the IMU in its Declaration of Rio de Janeiro. Chaired by Bernard R. Hodgson, Université', Laval (current Secretary of ICMI), this Committee met at several physical locations as well as electronically, gathered suggestions from across Canada, and submitted its report in September 1998. The CMS has now committed $50,000 to these WMY 2000 proposals. In addition to the CMS initiative, other Canadian mathematical societies and institutes have proposed activities to celebrate WMY 2000. This report presents highlights of these exciting events now being planned in Canada for WMY 2000. In celebration of the World Mathematical Year, the CMS and CAIMS (Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society) have agreed to meet together for the first time, in a joint annual meeting, June 10-14, 2000 in Hamilton, Ontario. These two societies will be joined by the Canadian Operations Research Society, the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, the Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics and the Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference. This Year 2000 joint societies meeting is expected to bring together the largest number of Canadian mathematical scientists, from across Canada, ever assembled in one place. It is itself an historic event for Canada. Mathematicians from around the world are welcome to join this celebration; program information will be available soon at the web-site
Chinese President Presents At The ICM Opening Ceremony upon the invitation of IMU chairman Jacob Palis, Chinese President Jiang Zeminawarded golden medals to the 2002 laureates of the fields medal Prize Prof. http://www.bulletin.ac.cn/ACTION/2002082101.htm
Extractions: International Congress of Mathematicians Opens in Beijing At the invitation of the IMU chairman Jacob Palis, Chinese President Jiang Zemin confers the Fields Medal s to two winners at ICM2002 opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 24th session of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM2002) was held on August 20 in Beijing. The current session of the ICM is organized by the Chinese Mathematics Society (CMS) under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union ( IMU T he Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is among the eight sponsors of the Congress. At the opening ceremony, upon the invitation of IMU chairman Jacob Palis, Chinese President Jiang Zemin awarded golden medals to the laureates of the Fields Medal Prize : Prof. Laurent Lafforgue from Paris-based Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) and Prof. Vladimir Voevodsky from the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton The prestigious Fields Medal is considered highest honor and prize in mathematics, equivalent to that of the Nobel Prize as there is no mathematics category in the Nobel Prize awards. Also at the ceremony, Indian mathematician Madhu Sudan was awarded 2002 Nevanlinna Prize. T his is an important event for the international community of mathematicians,¡± says chairman of the ICM2002 local organizing committee Ma Zhimin
Math Words Page 15 fields medal The fields medal is named for John Charles Fields, a Canadian mathematicianwho left instructions in his will to create a medal to honor http://www.pballew.net/arithm15.html
Extractions: Math Words, pg 15 apsides The word apside, and its related terms apoapsis and periapsis are most commonly applied to conic sections, particularly the ellipse. The term apside can actually be applied to any motion in reference to a fixed reference point, and refers to a point on the orbit where, for at least an instant, the point is neither approaching nor receding from the reference point. In an ellipse the distance from a focus to the nearest vertex is called apoapsis. In the case of the elliptic orbit of the Earth around the sun, the point where the Earth is closest to the sun is called aphelion (from helios ) and in the orbit of the moon or other satellite about the Earth the closest point is called apogee (from Geo for Earth The distance from the focus of the ellipse to the most distant vertex is called the periapsis, and the special case for orbits about the sun is called perihelion , and for orbits around the Earth the term is perigee The root apsis is sometimes written apse in architecture where it is used to represent a (usually) domed projection of a building. The original Greek root is from the word haptein for "to fasten". The Latin translation became
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MathNet-fields The summary for this Korean page contains characters that cannot be correctly displayed in this language/character set. http://www.mathnet.or.kr/API/people_fields_medals
Extractions: APMEP informations Les rubriques Laurent Lafforgue pour ses travaux sur le Programme de Langlands. Vladimir Voevodsky Madhu Sudan Laurent Lafforgue Vladimir Voevodsky ... Voir aussi de l' ENS CNRS professeur permanent Pour en savoir plus : (Discours de Recherche et des Nouvelles Technologies , le 18 octobre 2002, le 18 octobre 2002) (La photo de Laurent Lafforgue est mise en ligne avec l'aimable autorisation de l ' IHES Pour en savoir plus : Vladimir Voevodsky Clay math institute Vladimir Voevodsky Institute for Advanced Study , School of Mathematics, Princeton) Motivic Homotopy Theory Program Cycles, Transfers and Motivic Homology Theories (voir Princeton book aussi en " pdf bulletin de l"AMS On 2-torsion in motivic cohomology, by Vladimir Voevodsky
UCSD Mathematics - News And Events The department hosted a welcome reception for Efim Zelmanov, holder of a FieldsMedal and the Rita L. Atkinson Endowed Chair in Mathematics, in the AP M 6438 http://math.ucsd.edu/news/
Extractions: Search: Displaying results 1 to 10 of 10 Date Posted Description Super Bowl Numbering II Much? Mathematics Professor Carl FitzGerald is quoted in a sports feature about the use of Roman numerals in Super Bowl titles that appeared on the front page of the Saturday, January 25, 2003 edition of The San Diego Union-Tribune. SCGAS Meeting The department is hosting the Southern California Geometric Analysis Seminar (SCGAS) from February 8-9, 2003. Graham Wins AMS Steele Prize Mathematics Adjunct Professor Ron Graham (CSE) received the 2003 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Details in a UCSD news release SAGP Conference The department is hosting the Spectral Analysis in Geometry and Physics (SAGP) Conference from January 3-5, 2003. Department Welcomes Zelmanov The department hosted a welcome reception Halloween Some of the illustrious UCSD Mathematics staff members came all dressed up for Halloween . MathMan was also caught inspiring students in discussion section that day. Fields Medalist Joins UCSD Mathematics Faculty Efim Zelmanov, recipient of a Fields Medal in 1994, joins the faculty of the UCSD Mathematics department. The
