This year's Abel Prize for mathematicians with distinguished achievements will be given to Masaki Kashiwara, making him the first Japanese to win the award. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/27/japan/kashiwara-abel-prize/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #norway #awards #mathematics #abelprize #masakikashiwara
"Majorizing measures provide bounds for the supremum of stochastic processes. They represent the most general possible form of the chaining argument".
Michel Talagrand, 1996, https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-probability/volume-24/issue-3/Majorizing-measures-the-generic-chaining/10.1214/aop/1065725175.full
Michel Talagrand wins the #AbelPrize 2024 "For his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics." https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2024
Congratulations to Michel #Talagrand for receiving the 2024 #AbelPrize "for his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics": https://abelprize.no/article/2024/michel-talagrand-awarded-2024-abel-prize
Michel is perhaps less well known outside of probability than he ought to be. I consider myself a user of probability rather than an expert in the subject, but I have always been impressed by the powerful, deep, general, and non-obvious probabilistic tools that he has developed, particularly his concentration inequality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talagrand%27s_concentration_inequality (which provides concentration of measure estimates in very general settings, without explicitly requiring otherwise standard assumptions such as Gaussian distribution, martingale structure, or Lipschitz dependence), or his majorizing measures theorem https://projecteuclid.org/journals/annals-of-probability/volume-24/issue-3/Majorizing-measures-the-generic-chaining/10.1214/aop/1065725175.full , that gives a remarkably precise (but highly unintuitive) answer to what the expected size of the supremum of a gaussian process is, in terms of the geometry of that process.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2023 #Abel Prize to Luis A. Caffarelli
“for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation” #AbelPrize #AbelPrize2023 
https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2023
"Karen Uhlenbeck, a mathematician and emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin, is now the first woman to win the Abel Prize for mathematics. ... Modeled after the Nobel Prize, it is awarded by the king of Norway..."
2 Win Abel Prize for Work That Bridged Math and Computer Science - Avi Wigderson and László Lovász will share the annual prize that aims to be something like the Nob... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/science/abel-prize-mathematics.html #cryptographycodesandciphers #computersandtheinternet #your-feed-science #quantumcomputing #computersecurity #lovaszlaszlo #wigdersonavi #mathematics #abelprize #research
