Printer-friendly versionAvishai Margalit, George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the 2010 Israel Prize in Philosophy. The award was announced by Israel’s Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar. The Israel Prize committee cited Margalit as one of the most important philosophers in Israel and throughout the world. The prize, considered Israel’s most distinguished award, will be presented in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the Supreme Court president.
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The 2010 Wolf Prize in Mathematics will be awarded to Shing-Tung Yau, formerly a Professor, from 1980-84, and a Member, from 1971-72 and from 1979-80, in the Institute's School of Mathematics. He will share the prize with Dennis Sullivan, former Visitor (1968-70) in the School of Mathematics. Yau, William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University, was selected for his work in geometric analysis, and Sullivan, Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, was selected for contributions to algebraic topology and conformal dynamics.
The 2010 King Faisal International Prize in Science (Mathematics) is shared by Enrico Bombieri, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Australian Terence Chi-Shen Tao, former visitor in the School of Mathematics and James and Carol Collins Chair of Mathematics at the University of California. The King Faisal Foundation selected Bombieri for his pioneering contributions to various branches of mathematics, highlighting work that expresses originality, power, and clarity of exposition, addressing fundamental and difficult problems in number theory, algebraic geometry, complex analysis, and minimal surfaces. Tao was selected for his highly original solutions of very difficult and important problems and for his technical brilliance in the use of the necessary mathematical machinery. The Prizes are awarded annually and presented during a ceremony in Riyadh under the auspices of the King of Saudi Arabia. The Science prize rotates annually among several fields.
The Science Initiative Group (SIG) has introduced a blog on its website. Research and Editorial Consultant Alan H. Anderson and Executive Director Arlen K. Hastings are posting regular reports of their travels in Africa with the Regional Initiative in Science and Education (RISE). You may access the blog at http://sites.ias.edu/sig/blog.