Marco Sammartino, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Palermo, has been awarded the International Agostinelli Prize for 2015 from the Accademia dei Lincei (Italian National Academy) for research in the fields of Pure and Applied Mechanics and Mathematical […]
Andrew Majda (NYU) won the 2016 AMS Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research for two pioneering and seminal papers on existence and stability of multidimensional shock fronts. According to the AMS, the prize is awarded for a paper, whether recent or not, that has […]
The Breakthrough Prize and its founders Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, announced the recipients of the 2016 awards at the 3rd Annual Breakthrough Prize Awards Ceremony on November 8, 2015. […]
An article in a recent issue of Nature entitled “Software predicts slew of fiendish crystal structures” prominently mentions Alexandre Tkatchenko, who led a research team at Fritz Haber Institute that contributed to the prediction of the crystal structure of five, complex, ‘drug-like’ organic molecules. The […]