Alan T. Waterman Award

艾伦·T·沃特曼奖

• 批准号: 0851061
• 负责人: Terence Tao
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0851061&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Alan; T.; Waterman; Award

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is proud to announce that 32-year-old Terence Tao, a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Los Angeles, will receive its 2008 Alan T. Waterman Award. Called a "supreme problem-solver," and named one of "the Brilliant 10" scientists by Popular Science (October 2006), Tao's extraordinary work, much of which has been funded by NSF through the years, has had a tremendous impact across several mathematical areas. He will receive the award at a black tie dinner program at the U.S. Department of State on May 6.The annual Waterman award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by NSF. Candidates may not be more than 35 years old, or seven years beyond receiving a doctorate, and must stand out for their individual achievements. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $500,000 over a 3-year period for scientific research or advanced study in their field.Terence Tao was born in Adelaide, Australia, in 1975. His genius at mathematics began early in life. He started to learn calculus when he was 7 years old, at which age he began high school; by the age of 9 he was already very good at university-level calculus. By the age of 11, he was thriving in international mathematics competitions. Tao was 20 when he earned his doctorate from Princeton University, and he joined UCLA's faculty that year. UCLA promoted him to full professor at age 24. Tao now holds UCLA's James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Science. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member).Nicknamed "the Mozart of Math," Tao's areas of research include partial differential equations (PDE), combinatorics, number theory and harmonic analysis. Harmonic analysis is an advanced form of calculus that uses equations from physics. Some of this work involves, in a colleague's words, "geometrical constructions that almost no one understands." Tao also works in a related field, nonlinear partial differential equations, and in the entirely distinct fields of algebraic geometry, number theory and combinatorics, which involves counting.In addition to the prestigious Waterman award, Tao has received a number of other awards, including the Salem Prize in 2000; the Bochner Prize in 2002; the Fields Medal, often touted as the "Nobel Prize for Mathematics" and SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2006; and the MacArthur Fellowship and Ostrowski Prize in 2007.Through the years, Tao's research has often been funded by other NSF grants. His current research is funded by NSF Award #0649473, "Global Behaviour of Critical Nonlinear PDE."

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）自豪地宣布，32岁的特伦斯陶，数学教授在加州大学洛杉矶，将获得其2008年艾伦T。沃特曼奖被称为“最高的问题解决者”，并被大众科学（2006年10月）命名为“杰出的10位”科学家之一，陶的非凡工作，其中大部分由NSF多年来资助，在几个数学领域产生了巨大的影响。他将于5月6日在美国国务院的一个正式晚宴上获奖。一年一度的沃特曼奖旨在表彰NSF支持的任何科学或工程领域的杰出年轻研究人员。候选人不得超过35岁，或获得博士学位后7年，必须以个人成就脱颖而出。除了奖章外，获奖者还将在3年内获得50万美元的资助，用于在其领域进行科学研究或深造。陶泰伦1975年出生于澳大利亚阿德莱德。他在数学方面的天赋在早年就开始了。他从7岁开始学习微积分，在这个年龄他开始上高中;到9岁时，他已经非常擅长大学水平的微积分。11岁时，他在国际数学竞赛中崭露头角。陶在普林斯顿大学获得博士学位时20岁，那年他加入了加州大学洛杉矶分校。UCLA在24岁时将他提升为正教授。陶现在担任加州大学洛杉矶分校文学与科学学院的詹姆斯和卡罗尔柯林斯主席。他也是皇家学会和澳大利亚科学院院士（通讯会员），被誉为“数学界的莫扎特”，他的研究领域包括偏微分方程（PDE）、组合数学、数论和调和分析。调和分析是微积分的一种高级形式，它使用物理方程。用一位同事的话来说，其中一些工作涉及“几乎没有人理解的几何结构”。除了著名的沃特曼奖外，陶还获得了许多其他奖项，包括2000年的塞勒姆奖、2002年的博克纳奖、2005年的诺贝尔物理学奖、2006年的诺贝尔物理学奖、2007年的诺贝尔物理学奖、2008年的诺贝尔物理学奖、2009年的诺贝尔物理学奖和2009年的诺贝尔物理学奖。2006年，他获得了被誉为“诺贝尔数学奖”的菲尔兹奖和拉马努金奖; 2007年，他获得了麦克阿瑟奖学金和奥斯特洛夫斯基奖。他目前的研究由NSF Award #0649473资助，“临界非线性PDE的全球行为”。"