2012 Abel Prize Awarded to Endre Szemerédi

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2012 Abel Prize to Endre Szemerédi, former Member (2007–08, 2009–10) in the School of Mathematics at the Institute. The prize committee cited Szemerédi's contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science and their "profound and lasting impact" on additive number theory and ergodic theory. Szemerédi is State of New Jersey Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and Research Fellow at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.