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In January 1984, Alexander Grothendieck submitted to the French National Centre for Scientific Research his proposal “Esquisse d’un Programme.” Soon copies of this text started circulating among mathematicians. A few months later, as a first-year undergraduate at Moscow University, I was given a copy of it by George Shabat, my first scientific adviser. After learning some French with the sole purpose of being able to read this text, I started to work on some of the ideas outlined there.
The Institute is proud to announce the creation of the Gopal Prasad Professorship in recognition of prolific mathematician and six-time Member of IAS, Gopal Prasad .
Dennis Parnell Sullivan , past Visitor (1967–70, 1975) in the School of Mathematics , is this year’s winner of the prestigious Abel Prize . He is cited by the Abel Committee “for his groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects.”
George Lusztig, the Abdun-Nur Professor of Mathematics at MIT, has won the 2022 Wolf Prize in Mathematics for his work on geometric representation theory and algebraic groups.