<p><a href="http://www.ams.org/ams/prizebooklet-2010.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.ams.org/ams/prizebooklet-2010.pdf</a> </p>
<p>The American Mathematical Society has announced its 2010 awards. Among the twenty mathematicians receiving prizes were two Princeton undergraduate alumni and one Princeton graduate alumnus. </p>
<p>Almost half of the award winners studied at Princeton, Harvard or the U. of Chicago. In addition to the three Princeton alumni, there were also three from Harvard (one of them being a Harvard PhD-Princeton AB). The most heavily represented school was, however, the U. of Chicago, three of whose undergraduate alumni were honored in addition to a graduate alumnus. Within the Ivies, a Brown undergraduate alumnus and a Penn PhD were also awarded prizes.</p>
<p>Princeton alumni honored with awards this year were:</p>
<p>William Minicozzi '90 = The Veblan Prize in Geometry</p>
<p>"The 2010 Veblen Prize in Geometry is awarded to Tobias H. Colding and William
P. Minicozzi II for their profound work on minimal surfaces. In a series of papers,
they have developed a structure theory for minimal surfaces with bounded
genus in 3-manifolds, which yields a remarkable global picture for an arbitrary
minimal surface of bounded genus. This contribution led to the resolution of
long-standing conjectures and initiated a wave of new results."</p>
<p>David Donoho '78 = The Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics</p>
<p>"The 2010 Norbert Wiener Prize is awarded to David L. Donoho for introducing
novel fundamental and powerful mathematical tools in signal processing and
image analysis. His many outstanding contributions include those to compressed
sensing and the construction of multiscale analysis techniques that take advantage
of the specifi c mathematical and physical properties of the problems under
consideration. His methods are very deep mathematically and very effi cient
computationally. This explains their success with both theoreticians and practitioners,
which causes him to be one of the most cited applied and computational
mathematicians of our time."</p>
<p>William Fulton PhD '66 = The Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement</p>
<p>"The 2010 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement is awarded to William Fulton.
Through his research, his writing, and his intellectual leadership, Fulton has
played a pivotal role in shaping the direction of algebraic geometry and in forging
and strengthening ties between algebraic geometry and adjacent fields. His
teaching and mentoring have nurtured several generations of younger mathematicians.
In short, he is a giant of the mathematical profession."</p>
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<p>Wolf Prize Awarded</p>
<p>Also making mathematical news was the announcement of the winners of the Wolf Prize for this year which was shared by a Harvard professor and another Princeton graduate, Dennis Sullivan PhD '66. This is the third year in a row that a Princeton PhD graduate in mathematics has won the Wolf Prize.</p>
<p>Wolf</a> Foundation = announcement
Wolf</a> Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia = regarding the Wolf Prize</p>
<p>Sullivan was honored for his innovative contributions to algebraic topology and conformal dynamics. More information about him can be found here:</p>
<p>Dennis</a> Sullivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>The Wolf Prize (along with the Fields Medal) is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of mathematics and is awarded each year by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. Princeton's department of mathematics has produced many winners of each award both as professors and former students. More information about math at Princeton can be found here:</p>