Nomination Guidelines

Nominations of candidates for the Fields Medal, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, and the Chern Medal Award to be awarded at the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 can be submitted to the Prize Committee Chairs and must include:

• Name and affiliation of candidate.
• Candidate's date of birth. (Please note the age requirements for the Fields Medal and the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize.)
• Description of the work that qualifies the candidate for the award, written in terms that are accessible to mathematicians of different backgrounds, including references to the candidate's important papers.

Nominations are confidential, and must not be disclosed to the candidate.
Nominations should ideally be sent by December 15, 2012 to the Prize Committee Chairs.

No winner of one of these Medals/Prizes is eligible for one of the others.