The Shaw Prize is an international award to honour individuals, regardless of race, nationality, gender and religious belief, who are currently active in their respective fields and who have recently achieved distinguished and significant advances, who have made outstanding contributions in academic and scientific research or applications, or who in other domains have achieved excellence.
The award is dedicated to furthering societal progress, enhancing quality of life, and enriching humanity's spiritual civilization.The Shaw Prize consists of three annual awards: the Prize in Astronomy, the Prize in Life Science and Medicine, and the Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Each prize carries a monetary award of one million two hundred thousand US dollars.
The Shaw Prize, established under the auspices of Mr Run Run Shaw in November 2002, is managed and administered by The Shaw Prize Foundation based in Hong Kong.
The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2022 is awarded in equal shares to Noga Alon, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Princeton, USA and Ehud Hrushovski, Merton Professor of Mathematical Logic, University of Oxford, UK for their remarkable contributions to discrete mathematics and model theory with interaction notably with algebraic geometry, topology and computer sciences.
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The Hungarian combinatorics have very good relations with Alon Noga. He has 7 joint articles with Zoltán Füredi, 4 with Imre Ruzsa and 3 with Miklós Ruszinkó.
László Pyber and Endre Szabó continued some of Hrushovski's topics. The Multiplication theorem proved by Breuillard-Green-Tao and Pyber-Szabó and the geometric theory of Elekes-Szabó can also be listed here.
Noga Alon will visit Budapest again soon, as he will give the opening lecture of the Rényi100 conference on June 20, 2022.