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2009 Mathematical Sciences Jury

Jury Chair

Prof. Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan

Professor of Mathematics and Frank J. Gould Professor of Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Prof. Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan is a winner of the Birkhoff Prize (1994), the Margaret and Herman Sokol Award of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University (1995), the Leroy Steele Prize (1996) and the Abel Prize (2007). He also has honorary degrees from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (2003), from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India (2004) and from the Chennai Mathematics Institute (2008).

Jurors

Prof. John H. Coates

Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, UK
Since 1986, Prof. Coates has worked in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (DPMMS) of the University of Cambridge. In the last ten years he has focused on the study of various aspects of non-commutative Iwasawa theory, including the study of the arithmetic of elliptic curves in nonabelian infinite extensions. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1985, and was President of the London Mathematical Society from 1988 to 1990. The LMS awarded him the Senior Whitehead Prize in 1997.

Prof. Weinan E

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Prof. Weinan E moved to Princeton University in 1999 where he holds a professorship in the Department of Mathematics and in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. He received his PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989 (under Björn Engquist). Prof. E was a long-term member of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton from 1992 to 1994 and became a professor at the Courant Institute at New York University in 1994. In 1999, he received the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, in 1999 he was awarded the Feng Kang Prize for Scientific Computing, and in 2003 he received the ICIAM (International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Collatz Prize. Prof. E’s work is a sophisticated combination of modeling, mathematical analysis, and numerics, and it is always devoted to providing new insights into real-world processes.

Prof. David Mumford

University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University and winner of the Fields Medal, 1974
Before moving to Brown University, Prof. David Mumford served as Higgin's Professor of Mathematics at Harvard from 1977-1997. He was a MacArthur Fellow from 1987 to 1992. He won the Shaw Prize in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition by the American Mathematical Society. In 2008 he was awarded the Wolf Prize. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Prof. Mumford was also elected President of the International Mathematical Union from 1995-1999.

Dr. M. S. Narasimhan

Honorary Fellow of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Dr. M. S. Narasimhan was Professor of Mathematics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and Head of the Mathematics section at ICTP, Trieste. Dr. Narasimhan is a pioneer of the study of moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles on projective varieties. He was co-winner of the King Faisal Prize in 2006. In 1975, he received the Bhatnagar Prize for Mathematics (1975), which is the most prestigious award in Mathematics in India. He also received the Third World Academy Award for Mathematics in 1987 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, London.

Prof. Terry Speed

Head - Bioinformatics at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia and Professor, Department of Statistics of the University of California, Berkeley, USA
Prof. Terry Speed's research concerns the application of statistics to problems in genetics and molecular biology. His major focus at the moment is in cancer genomics and cancer systems biology. He remains interested in the mapping of genes in humans and other organisms, the analysis of DNA and protein sequences, and the analysis of all types of next-generation sequence data. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Computational Biology, JASA, Bernoulli and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics.