Eugenia Malinnikova (born 23 April 1974) is a mathematician, winner of the 2017 Clay Research Award which she shared with Aleksandr Logunov "in recognition of their introduction of a novel geometric combinatorial method to study doubling properties of solutions to elliptic eigenvalue problems". [1]
As a high school student, she competed three times in the International Mathematical Olympiad, winning three Gold medals (including two perfect scores). [2] She is a member of the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame. [3]
She got her PhD from St. Petersburg State University in 1999, under the supervision of Viktor Petrovich Havin. [4] Currently she works as a professor of mathematics at Stanford University [5] after previously working at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
In 2018 she was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [6] She is also a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters [7] and the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. [8] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2024 class of fellows. [9]
Alain Connes is a French mathematician, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He is a professor at the Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982.
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. It is “the most prestigious” mathematical competition in the world. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except in 1980. More than 100 countries participate. Each country sends a team of up to six students, plus one team leader, one deputy leader, and observers.
Fred Kavli was a Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist. He was born on a small farm in Eresfjord, Norway. He founded the Kavlico Corporation, located in Moorpark, California. Under his leadership, the company became one of the world's largest suppliers of sensors for aeronautic, automotive, and industrial applications supplying General Electric and the Ford Motor Company.
László Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2007 to 2010 and the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2014 to 2020.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway.
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, becoming the first woman to win the prize, as well as the first Iranian. The award committee cited her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces".
Sir Basil John Mason was an expert on cloud physics and former Director-General of the Meteorological Office from 1965 to 1983 and Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) from 1994 to 1996.
Kjell Egil Eimhjellen was a Norwegian microbiologist.
Idun Reiten is a Norwegian professor of mathematics. She is considered to be one of Norway's greatest mathematicians today. With national and international honors and recognition, she has supervised 11 students and has 28 academic descendants as of March 2024. She is an expert in representation theory, and is known for work in tilting theory and Artin algebras.
Kristian Johan Fossheim is a Norwegian physicist.
Olav Aasmund Smidsrød was a Norwegian biochemist.
Fred Barry Schneider is an American computer scientist, based at Cornell University, where he is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science. He has published in numerous areas including science policy, cybersecurity, and distributed systems. His research is in the area of concurrent and distributed systems for high-integrity and mission-critical applications.
Helge Holden is a Norwegian mathematician working in the field of differential equations and mathematical physics. He was Praeses of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters from 2014 to 2016.
John Grue is a Norwegian applied mathematician noted for his contributions to marine hydrodynamics and internal waves.
Synnøve Liaaen Jensen was a Norwegian chemist.
Arnljot Elgsæter is a Norwegian physicist.
Maria Strømme, is a Norwegian physicist who lives and works in Sweden.
Suzanne Lacasse is a Canadian civil engineer. She obtained her PhD in 1976.
Aleksandr Andreyevich Logunov is a Russian mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis, potential theory, and geometric analysis.
Ora Entin-Wohlman is an Israeli condensed matter physicist. She is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
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