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，现年32岁的加州大学洛杉矶分校数学教授特伦斯·陶将获得2008年度艾伦·T·沃特曼奖。陶渊明被称为“至高无上的问题解决者”，并被“大众科学”评为“十大杰出科学家”之一(2006年10月)，他的非凡工作多年来得到了美国国家科学基金会的资助，在几个数学领域产生了巨大的影响。他将于5月6日在美国国务院举行的正式晚宴上接受该奖项。一年一度的沃特曼奖表彰由美国国家科学基金会资助的任何科学或工程领域的杰出年轻研究人员。候选人的年龄不能超过35岁，也不能超过获得博士学位的七年，而且必须因个人成就而脱颖而出。除了一枚奖牌外，获奖者还将在三年内获得50万美元的奖金，用于他们所在领域的科学研究或高级研究。陶渊明1975年出生于澳大利亚阿德莱德。他的数学天赋在他很小的时候就开始了。他从7岁开始学习微积分，7岁开始上高中；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大放异彩。陶渊明20岁时从普林斯顿大学获得博士学位，同年加入了加州大学洛杉矶分校的教职员工。加州大学洛杉矶分校在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的詹姆斯和卡罗尔·柯林斯在文学与科学学院的教席。陶渊明也是英国皇家学会和澳大利亚科学院院士(通讯会员)。他的研究领域包括偏微分方程(PDE)、组合学、数论和调和分析，被称为数学中的莫扎特。调和分析是微积分的一种高级形式，它使用物理学中的方程。用一位同事的话说，这项工作中的一些工作涉及“几乎没有人理解的几何结构”。陶渊明还在一个相关的领域--非线性偏微分方程式，以及涉及计数的代数几何、数论和组合学等截然不同的领域工作。除了著名的沃特曼奖，陶渊明还获得了许多其他奖项，包括2000年的塞勒姆奖、2002年的波克纳奖、2006年被吹捧为“诺贝尔数学奖”的菲尔兹奖和2006年的萨斯特拉·拉马努扬奖，以及2007年的麦克阿瑟奖学金和奥斯托夫斯基奖。多年来，陶渊明的研究经常得到其他国家科学基金会的资助。他目前的研究得到了美国国家科学基金会奖#0649473“临界非线性偏微分方程的全球行为”的资助。