Former Members Win American Mathematical Society Awards

Hee Oh, former Member (2002–03) in the School of Mathematics, received the 2015 AMS Satter Prize, which recognizes outstanding contributions to mathematics research by a woman in the previous six years. Oh is honored for “her fundamental contributions to the fields of dynamics on homogeneous spaces, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, and applications to number theory.”

Robert Lazarsfeld, former Member (1981–82) in the School of Mathematics, was awarded the 2015 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition. He received the award for his two-volume work Positivity in Algebraic Geometry I and II (Springer, 2004).

Jeffrey Lagarias, former Member (2000, 2001) in the School of Mathematics, and Chuanming Zong received the 2015 AMS Levi L. Conant Prize, which recognizes the best expository paper published in either the Notices of the AMS or the Bulletin of AMS. The two are awarded for their article "Mysteries in Packing Regular Tetrahedra," (Notices of the AMS, December 2012).

The prizes will be awarded by the American Mathematical Society at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Sunday, January 11, 2015, in San Antonio, Texas.