2010 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, USA
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. Maxim Kontsevich
Professor at Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France
Prof. Kontsevich has made numerous contributions to the fields of pure mathematics and theoretical physics. His work concentrates on geometric aspects of mathematical physics, most notably on knot theory, quantization, and mirror symmetry. He received the Fields Medal in 1998. He has also been awarded the Crafoord Prize in 2008, the Otto Hahn Medal, Max Planck Gesellschaft in 1992, Prix de la Mairie de Paris in 1992, the Henri Poincare Prize in 1997, and the Prize of the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Brisbane in 1997. Kontsevich is a member of the Academia Europaea, and a member of the Institut de France.
Prof. Weinan E
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, USA
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, USA
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. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1974. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Prof. Mumford was also elected President of the International Mathematical Union from 1995-1999.
Prof. C. S. Sheshadri
Director of the Chennai Mathematical Institute, India
Prof. Sheshadri is known for his work in algebraic geometry; the Sheshadri constant is named after him. He received the Padma Bhushan in 2009, the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, and the Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal from the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Indian National Science Academy and fellow of the Royal Society. He has also received an honorary degree from the Banaras Hindu University.
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.
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