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Akhil Mathew

Akhil Mathew received his PhD in 2017 from Harvard University under the supervision of Jacob Lurie. Previously he received an undergraduate degree from Harvard and studied at UC Berkeley for one year. His research focuses on homotopy theory, higher categories, and their applications, especially to derived algebraic geometry and algebraic K-theory. Some of his past work studied various generalizations of faithfully flat descent in stable homotopy theory and their role in describing certain invariants of structured ring spectra.

Akhil was appointed as a Clay Research Fellow for a term of five years beginning 1 July 2017.

2019 Oswald Veblen Prize

The 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry will be awarded to Simon Donaldson, Xiuxiong Chen and Song Sun for their three-part series, “Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, I, II, and III,” published in 2015 in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society.  Professor Donaldson has been a member of CMI’s Scientific Advisory Board since 2002.

Conant Prize

Clay Research Fellow Alex Wright has been awarded the 2019 Levi L. Conant Prize for his article From rational billiards to dynamics on moduli spaces.  In only 16 pages, the article gives a panoramic view of the theory of translation surfaces and of the recent breakthrough by Alex Eskin, Maryam Mirzakhani, and Amir Mohammadi on the structure of the orbit closure of a translation surface. Wright’s account combines brevity with clarity. It is a considerable feat: this active and highly technical research area comprises the work of many. The article gives non-specialists a good entry point and a guide to further reading.

Decomposition of the diagonal and nilpotence

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Speaker: Claire Voisin (Collège de France)

IMU President

Professor Carlos Kenig has been elected President of the International Mathematical Union’s Executive Committee for a term of four years beginning 2019.  The President oversees all aspects of the IUM and Executive Committee and chairs the Fields Medal Committee. Professor Kenig has been a member of CMI’s Scientific Advisory Board since 2015.

Michael Brin Prize

Clay Research Fellow Alex Wright has been awarded the Michael Brin Dynamical Systems Prize for Young Mathematicians for his fundamental work on the Teichmüller geometry and dynamics of moduli space on Riemann surfaces, especially on the classification of SL(2,R)-invariant orbifolds, and the discovery of unexpected examples.

Characters and difference equations

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Speaker: Andrei Okounkov (Columbia)

Smoothing finite group actions on three-manifolds

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Speaker: John Pardon (Princeton)

Percolation crossings and complex analysis

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Speaker: Stanislav Smirnov (Geneva)

The work of Jason Miller and Scott Sheffield

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Speaker: Wendelin Werner (ETH)

p-adic geometry

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Speaker: Peter Scholze (Bonn)

On the Hankel transform and functional equation of automorphic L-functions

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Speaker: Ngô Bao Châu (Chicago)