Call for nominations Abel Prize 2011

The Abel Prize, which was awarded for the first time in 2003, amounts to NOK 6 million (approximately EUR 750,000 or USD 1 million). It is an international prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics, including mathematical aspects of computer science, mathematical physics, probability, numerical analysis and scientific computing, statistics, and also applications of mathematics in the sciences.

The prize is meant to recognize contributions to mathematics and its applications of extraordinary depth and influence. Such work may have resolved fundamental problems, created powerful new techniques, introduced unifying principles or opened up major new areas. The intent is to award prizes over the course of time in a wide range of areas of mathematics and its applications. The prize can be awarded to a single person or shared for closely related fundamental contributions.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters appoints the Abel Committee. This committee receives all nominations and may itself nominate candidates for the Abel Prize. The Abel Committee will submit a recommendation to The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, which will select the Abel laureate on the basis of this recommendation. The name of the Abel laureate will be announced in March 2011.

The letter nomination should be accompanied by a description of the work and impact of the nominee/nominees, together with names of distinguished specialists in the field of the nominee/nominees who can be contacted for an independent opinion.

The nomination letter should be sent no later than 15 September 2010 by e-mail to abelprisen@dnva.no or by post to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Drammensveien 78, NO-0271 Oslo, Norway.

It is also be possible to nominate candidates by using the online nomination form.

Ramanujan Prize winner honoured

The winner of the 2009 Ramanujan Prize, Ernesto Lupercio from Mexico, will receive the prize at an award ceremony at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy on 13 July. He is the fifth to receive this prize that is awarded to mathematicians less than 45 years of age from developing countries. The prize carries a $15,000 cash award and will be presented to Ernesto Lupercio by Fernando Quevedo, Director of ICTP.

Royal Abel celebration in Oslo

John Torrence Tate received the Abel Prize from HM King Harald at an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday 25 May. The Abel Laureate was received in audience at the Royal Palace earlier the same day. His Majesty King Harald was also present at the banquet at Akershus Castle in honour of this year's Abel Laureate. Tora Aasland, the Minister of Higher Education and Research, was the host for the banquet. Sir Michael Atiyah, the 2004 Abel Laureate, was the main speaker of the evening.

HM King Harald presents the Abel Prize

The American mathematician John Torrence Tate, University of Texas at Austin, will receive the 2010 Abel Prize from His Majesty King Harald at an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, 25 May. The Abel Prize carries a cash award of NOK 6,000,000 (close to € 730,000 or US$ 1 mill.) is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Congratulations from the President of AMS

George Andrews, President of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) sends his congratulations to John Tate on winning the Abel Prize.

Abel Prize to John T. Tate for path-breaking work

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2010 to John Torrence Tate, University of Texas at Austin, for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers. The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Nils Christian Stenseth, announced the name of the 2010 Abel Laureate at the Academy in Oslo today, 24. March. John Tate will receive the Abel Prize from His Majesty King Harald at an award ceremony in Oslo, Norway, May 25. The Abel Prize recognizes contributions of extraordinary depth and influence to the mathematical sciences and has been awarded annually since 2003. It carries a cash award of NOK 6,000,000 (close to € 730,000 or US$ 1 mill.)