Former Members Awarded 2014 Fields Medals

The International Mathematical Union awarded two former Members in the School of Mathematics with 2014 Fields Medals. Manjul Bhargava (2001-02), Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, received the award for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves. Martin Hairer (2014), Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University, received the prize for his outstanding contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations, and in particular for the creation of a theory of regularity structures for such equations. The Fields Medal is awarded every four years on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.