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The Abel Prize 2010

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Call for nominations

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters hereby calls for nominations of candidates for the Abel Prize 2010.

The Abel Prize, which was awarded for the first time in 2003, amounts to NOK 6 million (approximately EUR 750,000 or USD 1 million). It is an international prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics, including mathematical aspects of computer science, mathematical physics, probability, numerical analysis and scientific computing, statistics, and also applications of mathematics in the sciences.

The prize is meant to recognize contributions to mathematics and its applications of extraordinary depth and influence. Such work may have resolved fundamental problems, created powerful new techniques, introduced unifying principles or opened up major new areas. The intent is to award prizes over the course of time in a wide range of areas of mathematics and its applications. The prize can be awarded to a single person or shared for closely related fundamental contributions.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters appoints the Abel Committee. This committee receives all nominations and may itself nominate candidates for the Abel Prize. The Abel Committee will submit a recommendation to The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, which will select the Abel laureate on the basis of this recommendation. The name of the Abel laureate will be announced in March 2010.

We would like to invite you to send us a nomination letter. Your nomination should be accompanied by a description of the work and impact of the nominee/nominees, together with names of distinguished specialists in the field of the nominee/nominees who can be contacted for an independent opinion.

Your nomination letter should be sent no later than 15 September 2009, to:

E-mail: abelprisen@dnva.no
or
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Drammensveien 78
NO-0271 Oslo
Norway

It is also possible to nominate candidates by using the online nomination form.

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