New Horizons Prize / en Michael Groechenig awarded 2024 New Horizons Prize in Mathematics /celebrates/michael-groechenig-awarded-2024-new-horizons-prize-mathematics <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Michael Groechenig awarded 2024 New Horizons Prize in Mathematics</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-09-15T15:12:22-04:00" title="Friday, September 15, 2023 - 15:12" class="datetime">Fri, 09/15/2023 - 15:12</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/mississauga" hreflang="en">Mississauga</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-mathematical-and-computational-sciences" hreflang="en">Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/new-horizons-prize" hreflang="en">New Horizons Prize</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-09/UTM-Michael-Groechenig-01-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="&quot;&quot;"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Michael Groechenig (photo by Drew Lesiuczok)</em></p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Michael Groechenig</strong>, an associate professor in the University of Toronto Mississauga’s department of mathematical and computational sciences, has received the prestigious 2024 New Horizons Prize in Mathematics from <a href="https://breakthroughprize.org/">the Breakthrough Prize Foundation</a>.</p> <p>Billed as “the Oscars of Science,” the Breakthrough Prize was founded by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg, Julia and Yuri Milner and Anne Wojcicki to recognize the world's top scientists working in the fundamental sciences.&nbsp;</p> <p>The New Horizons Prize in Mathematics is awarded to promising early-career researchers who have already produced important work. <strong>Jacob Tsimerman</strong> of the department of mathematics in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science <a href="/celebrates/jacob-tsimerman-receives-prestigious-2022-new-horizons-prize">was recognized with the 2022 prize</a>.</p> <p>Groechenig received the award for his insights into arithmetic geometry, specifically for his contributions to the theory of rigid local systems and applications of p-adic integration to mirror symmetry and the fundamental lemma.</p> <p>“I was feeling quite surprised and very humbled when I learnt about having won the New Horizons,” Groechenig says. “It’s such an honour to receive that recognition from my community.</p> <p>“I’m grateful to my collaborators Hélène Esnault, Dimitri Wyss and Paul Ziegler for the many interesting things they have taught me and for our joint work on the papers for which the prize was awarded.”</p> <p>Groechenig was <a href="https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/coffee-cups-doughnuts-and-geometry-utm-mathematician-wins-prestigious-sloan-fellowship">awarded a Sloan Fellowship in 2022</a>.</p> <h4><a href="https://breakthroughprize.org/News/83">Read more about the Breakthrough Prize</a></h4> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 15 Sep 2023 19:12:22 +0000 lanthierj 302906 at Jacob Tsimerman receives prestigious 2022 New Horizons Prize /celebrates/jacob-tsimerman-receives-prestigious-2022-new-horizons-prize <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Jacob Tsimerman receives prestigious 2022 New Horizons Prize</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-10-29T16:52:37-04:00" title="Friday, October 29, 2021 - 16:52" class="datetime">Fri, 10/29/2021 - 16:52</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-mathematics" hreflang="en">Department of Mathematics</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/new-horizons-prize" hreflang="en">New Horizons Prize</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Jacob-Tsimerman-CRM.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Jacob Tsimerman"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"> Photo courtesy Centre de Recherche Mathématique</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="http://www.math.toronto.edu/~jacobt/">Jacob Tsimerman</a>, an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science’s <a href="https://www.math.toronto.edu/cms/">department of mathematics</a>, has been awarded a 2022 <a href="https://breakthroughprize.org/News/65">New Horizons Prize in Mathematics</a> from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.</p> <p>“It feels great to receive this recognition,” says Tsimerman. “But there are a lot of people involved in the work I do –&nbsp;it's a big community –&nbsp;so it feels good to be able to share the honour with my colleagues.”</p> <p>Tsimerman’s research focuses primarily on analytic number theory and arithmetic geometry. One of his most notable research accomplishments is his contribution to a proof for a longstanding mathematical hypothesis called the André-Oort conjecture.</p> <p>“The New Horizons Prize is one of the top international awards for rising young stars in mathematics,”&nbsp;says <strong>Robert Jerrard</strong>, chair of the department of mathematics. “It confirms Jacob's stature as one of the foremost number theorists of his generation. It honours his breakthrough research spanning disparate areas –&nbsp;number theory, algebraic geometry and model theory –&nbsp;leading to a proof of the celebrated André-Oort Conjecture.”</p> <p>The award is the latest in a series of honours for Tsimerman, who was the youngest faculty member in the department when he joined the University of Toronto as an assistant professor in 2014. In 2015, he was the first Canadian to win the prestigious <a href="https://www.qseries.org/sastra-prize/">Sastra Ramanujan Prize</a>. In 2017, he received the <a href="http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/prix/prixAndreAisenstadt/prix_AA_an.shtml">André Aisenstadt Prize</a> from the Centre de recherche mathématiques at the University of Montréal. And in 2019, the Canadian Mathematical Society awarded Tsimerman<a href="https://www2.cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2019/coxeterjames"> the Coxeter-James Prize</a>.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/theoretical-mathematician-jacob-tsimerman-receives-prestigious-2022-new-horizons-prize">Read the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science story &nbsp;</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Arts &amp; Science</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 29 Oct 2021 20:52:37 +0000 lanthierj 171042 at