The Henri Poincaré Prize

sponsored by the Daniel Iagolnitzer Foundation

Calls for nominations: Deadline September 30, 2023. More information can be found in the July 2023 IAMP Bulletin under the heading `Calls for nominations'.

The Prize was created in 1997 to recognize outstanding contributions in mathematical physics, and contributions which lay the groundwork for novel developments in this broad field. The Prize is also created to recognize and support young people of exceptional promise who have already made outstanding contributions to the field of mathematical physics.

The prize is awarded every three years at the International Mathematical Physics Congress and in each case, is an award to three individuals (to be exact, the rules say approximately three allowing for exceptional circumstances, at the discretion of the prize committee).

Laureates

2021 Rodney James Baxter
Demetrios Christodoulou
Yoshiko Ogata
Jan Phillip Solovej
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2018 Michael Aizenman
Percy Deift
Giovanni Gallavotti
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2015 Alexei Borodin
Thomas Spencer
Herbert Spohn
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2012 Nalini Anantharaman
Freeman Dyson
Sylvia Serfaty
Barry Simon
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2009 Jürg Fröhlich
Robert Seiringer
Yakov G. Sinai
Cedric Villani
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2006 Ludvig D. Faddeev
David Ruelle
Edward Witten
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2003 Huzihiro Araki
Elliott H. Lieb
Oded Schramm
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2000 Joel Lebowitz
Walter Thirring
Horng-Tzer Yau
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1997 Rudolf Haag
Maxim Kontsevich
Arthur Wightman
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Prize committees

2021 Michael Aizenman (chair), Mihalis Dafermos, Jean-Pierre Eckmann, Robert Seiringer, Edward Witten
2018 Jan Philip Solovej (chair), Alexei Borodin, Elliott Lieb, Sylvia Serfaty, Tom Spencer
2015 Horng-Tzer Yau (chair), John Cardy, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Barry Simon, Yakov Sinai
2012 Cedric Villani (chair), Joseph (Yosi) Avron, Rafael Benguria, Percy Deift, Ari Laptev
2009 Bruno Nachtergaele (chair), Eric Carlen, Giovanni Gallavotti, Krzysztof Gawedzki, Herbert Spohn
2006 Volker Bach (chair), Jürg Fröhlich, Nicolai Reshetikhin, Raymond Stora, Jakob Yngvason
2003 Ruedi Seiler (chair), David Brydges, Detlef Buchholz, Ludvig Faddeev, Joel Lebowitz
2000 John Klauder (chair), Antti Kupiainen, David Ruelle, Yakov Sinai, Herbert Spohn
1997 Sergio Doplicher (chair), Jürg Fröhlich, Daniel Iagolnitzer, Aubrey Truman
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