Furstenberg and Margulis to share the Abel Prize

The Abel Prize Laureates 2020

The Abel Prize for 2020 goes to Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel​ and Gregory Margulis, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, for “pioneering the use of methods from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and combinatorics.”

Abel lectures at the University of Oslo

The lectures will be streamed

Georg Sverdrups hus

Karen Uhlenbeck gave her Abel Prize lecture on the 22nd of May at the University of Oslo. Chuu-LianTerng and Robert Bryant gave lectures related to Uhlenbeck's work. The popular science lecture was given by stand-up mathematician Matt Parker.

Karen Uhlenbeck first woman to win the Abel Prize

In 1987 Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck moved to the University of Texas at Austin to take up the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents' Chair in mathematics where she worked until 2014. Currently, Uhlenbeck is a Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University as well as Visitor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). Photo: Andrea Kane/Institute for Advanced Study

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2019 to Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin, USA “for her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.”

His Majesty King Harald V will present the Abel Prize to the laureate at the award ceremony in Oslo on the 21^st of May.

Congratulations to Karen Uhlenbeck from University of Texas at Austin

Chair of the University of Texas at Austin Math Department,

"At the University of Texas at Austin and the Department of Mathematics, we are delighted and tremendously proud of Karen Uhlenbeck, recipient of the 2019 Abel Prize" - Thomas Chen, Chair of the University of Texas at Austin Math Department