EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
The European Mathematical Society has announced the winners of the fifth round of EMS Prizes, which take place every four years. Ten prizes worth EUR5,000 (£3,975) have been awarded to young mathematicians born in Europe or affilitated to a European institution. The money was made available by the Dutch foundation Compositio Mathematica.
- Award winner: Artur Avila
Institution: Clay Mathematics Institute, Paris and IMPA, Brazil
Dynamics of quasiperiodic cocycles and the spectrum of the almost Mathieu operator
- Award winner: Alexei Borodin
Institution: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Random surfaces in dimensions two, three and four
- Award winner: Ben Green
Institution: University of Cambridge
Patterns of primes
- Award winner: Olga Holtz
Institution: Technische Universitat Berlin and University of California, Berkeley
Complexity and stability of linear problems
- Award winner: Bo'az Klartag
Institution: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ High-dimensional distributions with convexity properties
- Award winner: Alexander Kuznetsov
Institution: Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow
Derived categories and rationality of cubic fourfolds
- Award winner: Assaf Naor
Institution: Courant Institute, New York
The story of the Sparsest Cut problem
- Award winner: Laure Saint-Raymond
Institution: ENS, Paris
Some results about the sixth problem of Hilbert
- Award winner: Agata Smoktunowicz
Institution: University of Edinburgh and Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
On some open questions in non-commutative ring theory
- Award winner: Cedric Villani
Institution: ENS, Lyon
Optimal transport and Riemannian geometry: Monge meets Riemann
The Felix Klein Prize for Industrial Mathematics
- Award winner: Josselin Garnier
Institution: Universite de Paris-VII
Passive-sensor imaging using cross correlations of noisy signal
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL
Library of Congress Scholarships, worth up to £6,500, have been awarded to 17 postgraduate projects. Recipients, whose names are kept confidential, may spend up to six months working at the library.
- Institution: University of Manchester
Beyond Kropotkin: the anarchisms of Read and Bookchin
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
The Highland military in the British Atlantic world, 1754-83
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
Race, immigration and US imperialism: William Howard Taft and East Asian policy, 1900-21
- Institution: University College London
The boundaries of the private versus public sphere in relation to human rights provisions
- Institution: University of Leeds
A matrix of factors involved in the move from religious belief to violent action
- Institution: University of Sheffield
Lincoln in the Viking age: a town in context
- Institution: Oxford Brookes University
Victims of National Socialism: East European Holocaust survivors
- Institution: University of Warwick
Enslaved masculinity and friendship in the antebellum South
- Institution: Oxford Brookes
Nameless victims? Nazi human experiments on Russians in the Second World War
- Institution: University of Cambridge
Writing the history of thought in Britain and the US, 1945-2005
- Institution: University of Kent
What shapes a ship? The cultural construction of US naval science, 1880-1914
- Institution: Warwick
Contemporary Polish poetry in English translation in the US: the reception in newspapers and journals after 1980
- Institution: University of Oxford
The call to come outside: Maurice Blanchot and the political
- Institution: University of Exeter
Theology and conflict: Miroslav Volf's theology in context
- Institution: Durham University
The Chola invasions: imperial or mercantile?
- Institution: Kingston University
A model for demonstration: architecture and marching on the city
- Institution: Birkbeck, University of London
Living with the machine: emerging technology in Britain and the US 1876-1914.
