Ten Affiliated with Institute Receive Mathematics Awards

Ten individuals associated with the Institute received awards at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans on January 7. The American Mathematical Society awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement to John W. Milnor. Milnor served on the School of Mathematics Faculty at the Institute from 1970 to 1990 and was a Member in the School in 1966. He is currently Co-Director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook University. Former Member Ingrid Daubechies (1999) received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research. A professor at Duke University, Daubechies has served on the organizing committee of Women and Mathematics, a joint program of the Institute and Princeton University, since the program’s inception in 1994. Eight additional former Members were also honored, including Henryk Iwaniec (1983–84, 1986–88, 1999–2000), who received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition; Peter Kronheimer (1987–88, 1988–89) and Tomasz Mrowka (2003–04), who shared the Joseph L. Doob Prize; Chandrashekhar Khare (2010–11), who shared the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger; David Vogan (1977–78, 1978–79), who received the Levi L. Conant Prize; Herbert Spohn (1990), who was awarded the Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics; Peter Winkler (2003–04), who shared the David P. Robbins Prize with Mike Paterson, Yuval Peres, Mikkel Thorup, and Uri Zwick; and Rhonda Hughes (1982–83), who received the M. Gweneth Humphreys Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.