Mimi Dai Awarded 2022 AMS Centennial Fellowship

Mimi Dai, von Neumann Fellow in the School of Mathematics and associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, has received the AMS Centennial Fellowship for the 2022–2023 academic year. Her award is indicative of “excellence in research,” the primary criterion of the selection committee.

“My research at the IAS strives to provide a better understanding of turbulent flows by bringing insights together from broader disciplines of mathematics and physics,” Dai stated. “The IAS has provided a perfect environment for this purpose.”

Dai’s research at IAS also includes the analysis of partial differential equations, harmonic analysis, and fluid dynamics.

“I am extremely honored to be awarded the prestigious AMS Centennial Fellowship,” Dai said as part of the AMS announcement. “As my name ‘Mimi’ in Chinese means ‘seeking secrets,’ it seems a destiny for me to grow into a mathematician.”

During her fellowship year, she will visit collaborators in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Switzerland to continue tackling challenging problems on the pathological behavior of solutions to certain fluid equations.

In 1973, the American Mathematical Society established a Research Fellowship Fund, renamed in 1988 to honor the AMS Centennial.

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