IMU Awards and Prizes
The International Union has awarded its 2006 prizes on August 22, 2006 during the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain. Information about the winners can be found here. The next prizes will be awarded during the opening ceremony of ICM 2010 in Hyderabad, India on August 19, 2010.
The International Mathematical Union grants three Prizes:
IMU Prizes are awarded every four years at the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). The Fields Medal recognizes outstanding mathematical achievement. The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize honors distinguished achievements in mathematical aspects of information science. The Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize is awarded for outstanding mathematical contributions that have found significant applications outside of mathematics.
The Fields Medal was first awarded in 1936, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize in 1982, and the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize in 2006.
About two years in advance of an award, the IMU Executive Committee appoints a Selection Committee along the lines of the Prize Statutes and the IMU By-Laws. This includes specifications about the criteria of selection and instructions how to act in a conflict of interest. The Selection Committees for the 2010 prizes have been appointed, calls for nomination have been sent out, and the selection process is in full progress. The names of the Prize Committee Chairs are public, the names of the other committee members will be made public at ICM 2010.
NominationFields MedalRolf Nevanlinna PrizeCarl Friedrich Gauss Prize
Prize Committees
A new prize will be awarded, jointly with the Chern Medal Foundation (CMF), for the first time at the opening ceremony of ICM 2010 to an individual whose lifelong outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics warrant the highest level of recognition.
The Abel PrizeThe Abel Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. IMU nominates members of The Abel Committee:
The Ramanujan PrizeA new Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries has been created in the name of Srinivasa Ramanujan by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), in cooperation with IMU, who nominate members of the Prize Committee. The Prize money is donated by the Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund The Prize will be awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country less than 45 years of age at the time of the award, who has conducted outstanding research in a developing country.
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