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NEWSaerobics at the YMCA, is a multi-instrumentalist, and enjoys
dancing and cooking. The CAV award is given annually for
fundamental contributions to the field of computer-aidedverification. The award carries a cash prize of US$10,000
shared equally among recipients.
—From a CAV announcement

Williamson Awarded
Christopher Heyde Medal
Geordie Williamson of the University of Sydney has been awarded the2019 Christopher Heyde Medal ofthe Australian Academy of Science.
The citation reads: “Professor Williamson is a world leader in the fieldof geometric representation theory.
Among his many breakthrough contributions are his proof, together
with Ben Elias, of Soergel’s conjecGeordie Williamson
ture—resulting in a proof of theKazhdan–Lusztig positivity conjecture from 1979; hisentirely unexpected discovery of counter-examples to theLusztig and James conjectures; and his new algebraic proofof the Jantzen conjectures.” Williamson received his PhDfrom Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 2008 under
Wolfgang Soergel. He was awarded the Chevalley Prize in
Lie Theory of the AMS in 2016. His honors also include
the European Mathematical Society Prize (2016), a Clay
Research Award (2016), the 2017 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (with Ben Elias), and the Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2018). He is currently director of
the University of Sydney Mathematical Research Instituteand will be Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Institutefor Advanced Study in 2020–2021. The Heyde Medal recognizes distinguished research in the mathematical sciencesby researchers up to ten years after receipt of the PhD who
are normally resident in Australia.
—From a University of Sydney announcement

Prizes of the MathematicalSociety of JapanThe Mathematical Society of Japan (MSJ) has awarded anumber of prizes for the fall of 2019.
Takayoshi Ogawa of Tohoku University was awarded
the 2019 Autumn Prize for his outstanding contributions
to studies on the critical structure in nonlinear evolution
equations. The Spring Prize and the Autumn Prize are
DECEMBER 2019the most prestigious prizes awarded
by the MSJ to its members. The Autumn Prize is awarded without age
restriction to people who have madeexceptional contributions in theirfields of research.
The Analysis Prizes were awarded
to Fumio Hiroshima of Kyushu University for the application of funcTakayoshi Ogawa
tional integration in mathematicalquantum field theory; Hidetaka
Sakai of the University of Tokyo for research on Painlevé-type equations; and Hiroki Sumi of Kyoto Universityfor studies on semigroups and random dynamics of rational functions of one complex variable.
The Geometry Prizes were awarded to Kei Irie of theUniversity of Tokyo for studies on contact, symplectic
topology, and string topology and to Masaki Tsukamotoof Kyushu University for studies on mean dimension indynamical systems.
The Takebe Katahiro Prizes were awarded to the following individuals: Kenta Hayano of Keio University forstudies on smooth mappings on 4-manifolds based onmapping class groups of surfaces; Tomoyuki Hisamotoof Nagoya University for studies on the stability and existence of special Kähler metrics on polarized manifolds;
Shinnosuke Okawa of Osaka University for studies on
noncommutative algebraic geometry; and Keisuke Takasaoof Kyoto University for studies on weak solutions tovolume-preserving mean curvature flow.
The Takebe Katahiro Prizes for Encouragement of Young
Researchers were awarded to the following individuals:
Kenta Hashizume of the University of Tokyo for a new approach to the minimal model program; Masao Oi of Kyoto
University for explicit description and depth-preserving
property of the local Langlands correspondence for classical groups; Yuhei Suzuki of Nagoya University for studies
on operator algebras arising from topological dynamicalsystems; Shota Tateyama of Waseda University and theUniversity of Tokyo for studies on qualitative properties ofLp-viscosity solutions to fully nonlinear partial differential
equations; and Hiroyuki Tsurumi of Waseda University
for work on well- and ill-posedness of the Navier–Stokes
equations in Besov spaces.
—From an MSJ announcement

2019 Davidson Fellows
Several high school students whose projects involved themathematical sciences have been named 2019 DavidsonFellows.

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