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The highest point of the International Congress of Mathematicians is the announcement of prize winners at the opening ceremony. This just occurred on August 1, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the Brazilian Minister of Education, Rossieli Soares da Silva, presented the IMU awards (a medal and a cheque for each of the prize winners): the Fields Medals, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, the Chern Medal, and the Leelavati Prize. The 2018 prize winners are:
FIELDS MEDALS (recognizing outstanding mathematical achievement; recipients are listed in alphabetical order of last names):
ROLF NEVANLINNA PRIZE (honoring distinguished achievements in mathematical aspects of information science):
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS PRIZE (for outstanding mathematical contributions with significant impact outside of mathematics):
CHERN MEDAL (awarded to an individual whose accomplishments warrant the highest level of recognition for outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics):
LEELAVATI PRIZE, sponsored by Infosys (for outstanding contributions to public outreach in mathematics by an individual):
The ICM hosts the ICM EMMY NOETHER LECTURE. The 2018 lecturer is Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University, US). She will speak on Conformal Geometry on 4-manifolds.
More details on the prizes including the citations and work profiles of the prize winners can be found at https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2018 .
Details about the IMU awards and also the physical medals and the cash awards can be found here.
The award ceremony was livestreamed and is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Webvi7vxUCk .
IMU and the international mathematical community congratulate the winners!
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