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Hugo Duminil-Copin,
France
For solving longstanding problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in dimensions three and four.
Ensemble intercontemporain
France
"Ensemble intercontemporain is the Stradivarius of modern music and has inspired the greatest composers of our time to create new masterpieces since the 1970s. Thanks to its openness to new technology and collaborating with other art forms, this groundbreaking ensemble has been enormously important for pushing progress. Ensemble intercontemporain, under the guidance of music director Matthias Pintscher, is made up of 31 soloists and has a repertoire that now includes over 3,000 modern pieces. Thanks to its focus on creativity, innovation and high quality, as well as focusing on engaging with young musicians, the ensemble has helped to advance the entire world of music."
Indonesia
Cédric Villani,
France
For his proofs of nonlinear Landau damping and convergence to equilibrium for theBoltzmann equation.
Russian Federation
Wendelin Werner,
France
for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensionalBrownian motion, andconformal field theory
Laurent Lafforgue,
France
Laurent Lafforgue has been awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of theLanglands correspondencefor thefull linear groupsGLr(r≥1) overfunction fields.
Pierre Boulez
France
"...His profound musicality, clear intelligence and unusual farsightedness have enabled him to act in a wider field than the great majority. Thus he has occupied the forefront as composer, interpreter/conductor and eminent theorist, and he has made unique contributions as a debater and source of ideas."
Pierre-Louis Lions,
France
... such nonlinearpartial differential equationsimply do not have smooth or even C1 solutions existing after short times. ... The only option is therefore to search for some kind of "weak" solution. This undertaking is in effect to figure out how to allow for certain kinds of "physically correct" singularities and how to forbid others. ... Lions and Crandall at last broke open the problem by focusing attention onviscosity solutions, which are defined in terms of certain inequalities holding wherever the graph of the solution is touched on one side or the other by a smoothtest function
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz,
France
proving stability properties - dynamic stability, such as that sought for the solar system, orstructural stability, meaning persistence under parameter changes of the global properties of the system.
Alain Connes,
France
Contributed to thetheory of operator algebras, particularly the general classification and structure theorem of factors of type III, classification of automorphisms of the hyperfinite factor, classification of injective factors, and applications of the theory ofC*-algebrasto foliations and differential geometry in general.
Sri Lanka
René Thom,
France
In 1954 invented and developed the theory of cobordism inalgebraic topology. This classification of manifolds usedhomotopy theoryin a fundamental way and became a prime example of a general cohomology theory.
Jean-Pierre Serre,
France
Achieved major results on thehomotopy groupsof spheres, especially in his use of the method of spectral sequences. Reformulated and extended some of the main results of complex variable theory in terms ofsheaves.
Laurent Schwartz,
France
Developed the theory ofdistributions, a new notion of generalized function motivated by theDirac delta-functionoftheoretical physics.