seedhi Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 The ICM began today in Hyderabad. The Fields medals, Nevanlinna prize, Gauss prize and Chern medals were awarded by President Pratibha Patil. The awardees are: Fields Medalists 2010 Elon Lindenstrauss, Princeton University Ngô Bảo Châu, Université Paris-Sud Stanislav Smirnov, Université de Genève Cédric Villani, Institut Henri Poincaré Nevanlinna Prize 2010 Daniel Spielman, Yale University Gauss Prize 2010 Yves Meyer, ENS Cachan Chern Prize 2010 Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences The next seven days will consist of many invited lectures and laudations for the prize winners. For more details on the awardees and schedule have a look at http://www.icm2010.org.in/welcome . For those interested ICM plenary sessions can be watched live online at http://www.icm2010.com/livevideo.asp , I streamed the inauguration and award ceremony.
seedhi Posted August 19, 2010 Author Posted August 19, 2010 Another attraction of the ICM is that Vishwanathan Anand is going to play chess games with 40 mathematicians simultaneously. By the way, I am disappointed that the ICM has received zero coverage in the Indian national media. Their priority seems to be Deepika Padukone's new movie. Sad.
punjabi_khota Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 Elon Lindenstrauss ..just looked him up and he works in dynamical systems :woot: Ergodic theory and dynamical systems is my source of daily bread
seedhi Posted August 19, 2010 Author Posted August 19, 2010 Elon Lindenstrauss ..just looked him up and he works in dynamical systems :woot: Ergodic theory and dynamical systems is my source of daily bread Hmm.. looks like he has proceeded to popularize your area in his own unique way: ... The ICM said Lindenstrauss was chosen for his work in ergodic theory. Recognizing its obscure nature, the mathematician told Israel Radio, "I will be very surprised if people will find a use for it in the foreseeable future." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gn2L5nT-mt3tRLRGfra94CzTpIHQD9HML7O00 :--D :giggle:
yoda Posted August 19, 2010 Posted August 19, 2010 By the way, I am disappointed that the ICM has received zero coverage in the Indian national media. Their priority seems to be Deepika Padukone's new movie. Sad. :hysterical:
seedhi Posted August 20, 2010 Author Posted August 20, 2010 A photo of the prize winners with the dignitaries. Nice to see Prof Dan Spielman who won the Nevanlinna Prize for his work on smoothed analysis and graph algorithms. Prof. Nirenberg gives half his prize money to Courant Institute where he was a faculty all his career: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article582664.ece . Such a shame that there is not even a mention of this event on ToI, NDTV, IBN etc.
kabira Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 ^why would they cover this event. this event does not add to their TRP.
Sir john Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 Sounds fun... :finger: are you bad in math.:haha:
Serani Posted August 20, 2010 Posted August 20, 2010 I got my C in maths 2 years ago and havent done any since.
THX_1138 Posted August 21, 2010 Posted August 21, 2010 oh what i would give to be a fly on the wall in that room
seedhi Posted August 21, 2010 Author Posted August 21, 2010 oh what i would give to be a fly on the wall in that roomYou could have attended the congress ..
THX_1138 Posted August 21, 2010 Posted August 21, 2010 You could have attended the congress .. cant, semester starts in two days, besides it would have been a barrage of intellectual bouncers. did you attend?
THX_1138 Posted August 21, 2010 Posted August 21, 2010 A photo of the prize winners with the dignitaries. Nice to see Prof Dan Spielman who won the Nevanlinna Prize for his work on smoothed analysis and graph algorithms. Prof. Nirenberg gives half his prize money to Courant Institute where he was a faculty all his career: http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article582664.ece . Such a shame that there is not even a mention of this event on ToI, NDTV, IBN etc. you are a bit of an engima seedhi. much like the erstwhile dada rocks. its rather obvious that you are quite well read, yet you and him had such stagnant views with regards to religion and state. i would have imagined you would be quite progressive after accumulating all that knowledge. not intended as a call to arms, just a curious observation.
seedhi Posted August 21, 2010 Author Posted August 21, 2010 you are a bit of an engima seedhi. much like the erstwhile dada rocks. its rather obvious that you are quite well read' date=' yet you and him had such stagnant views with regards to religion and state. i would have imagined you would be quite progressive after accumulating all that knowledge. not intended as a call to arms, just a curious observation.[/quote'] Haha .. allow this so called enigma remain an enigma. Lets just say that if everyone had the same views this world would be a lot less interesting. Anyway, back to the ICM : I am not attending, most of it (except theoretical CS) would be beyond my expertise as well. I wish that somewhere there is a live stream of the match of Vishwanathan Anand with 40 mathematicians simultaneously on August 24. Tim Gowers is blogging about his experience at the ICM http://gowers.wordpress.com/ .
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