Fields Medalists / Nevanlinna Prize Winner

Congratulations to the prize winners! Congratulations to the Fields medalists and the winner of the Nevanlinna prize! At the ICM'98 opening ceremony these prizes were awarded along with a Special Tribute to Andrew Wiles.

For more information on the prize winners see the press releases No. 182e and No. 183e, from August 18, 1998 of TU Berlin.

The new Fields medalists are:

Richard E. Borcherds (Cambridge University; Kac-Moody algebras, automorphic forms),

W. Timothy Gowers (Cambridge University;Banach space theory, combinatorics),

Maxim Kontsevich (IHES Bures-sur-Yvette;mathematical physics, algebraic geometry and topology),

Curtis T. McMullen (Harvard University;complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry).

The winner of the Nevanlinna prize is

Peter W. Shor (AT&T Labs Florham Park,New Jersey; quantum computation, computational geometry).
For more information see the press release No. 184e from August 18, 1998 of TU Berlin.

Special Tribute

Andrew J. Wiles (Princeton University)

The prize winners presented talks on their work in the course of the congress.

Here are the details:

Richard E. Borcherds: What is moon-shine?
Saturday, August 22, 17:15-18:00, H 2032
W. Timothy Gowers: Fourier analysis andSzemer'edi's theorem.
Thursday, August 20, 16:15-17:00, MA 005
Maxim Kontsevich: Motivic Galois groupand deformation quantizations.
Tuesday, August 25, 15:00-15:45, MA 001
Curtis T. McMullen: Rigidity and inflexi-bility in conformal dynamics.
Saturday, August 22, 15:00-15:45, H 1012
Peter W. Shor: Quantum computing.
Wednesday, August 19, 9:30-10:30, H105 (Auditorium Maximum)

Fields Medal Committee for 1998

Yuri Manin: Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, Germany; Chairman
John Ball: Oxford University, Oxford, UK
John Coates: Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
J. J. Duistermaat: University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Michael H. Freedman: Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Jürg Fröhlich: ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Robert MacPherson: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA
Kyoji Saito: University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Stephen Smale: Math. City University, Hong Kong, China

Rolf Nevanlinna Prize Committee for 1998

David Mumford: Brown University, Providence, USA; Chairman
Alexander Razborov: Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia
Bjorn Engquist: University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Tom Leighton: Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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