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 François-Xavier Lannuzel, Scientific Attaché at the French Embassy in Norway, will attend on the 22nd of May the Abel Prize 2012 ceremony.
The Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund was established on 1 January 2002, to award the Abel Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics. The prize amount is 6 million NOK (about 800,000 Euro).
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2012 to Endre Szemerédi, from Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Department of Computer Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA,
"for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory".
Discrete mathematics is the study of structures such as graphs, sequences, permutations, and geometric configurations. The mathematics of such structures forms the foundation of theoretical computer science and information theory. For instance, communication networks such as the internet can be described and analyzed using the tools of graph theory, and the design of efficient computational algorithms relies crucially on insights from discrete mathematics. The combinatorics of discrete structures is also a major component of many areas of pure mathematics, including number theory, probability, algebra, geometry, and analysis.
Endre Szemerédi has revolutionized discrete mathematics by introducing ingenious and novel techniques, and by solving many fundamental problems. His work has brought combinatorics to the center-stage of mathematics, by revealing its deep connections to such fields as additive number theory, ergodic theory, theoretical computer science, and incidence geometry.
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