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Press Contacts 2004

Professor Lars Walløe, University of Oslo, Norway
Tel: +47 22 85 12 18
Mobile: +47 90 96 75 32
Fax: +47 22 85 12 49
E-mail: lars.walloe@basalmed.uio.no

Professor Reidun Sirevåg, University of Oslo, Norway
Secretary General of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Tel: +47 22 85 45 63/22 85 60 38
E-mail: reidun.sirevag@bio.uio.no

Professor Jens Erik Fenstad, University of Oslo, Norway
Chairman of the Abel board
Tel: +47 22 85 58 65/+47 67 14 13 24
E-mail: jfenstad@math.uio.no

Assistant Professor Arne B. Sletsjøe, University of Oslo, Norway
2003/2004: Institute Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm
Nestleder i Abelstyret
Tel: + 46 8 6220560/76
Mobile: + 46 90694071
E-mail: arnebs@math.uio.no

Project Manager Anna Charlotte Larsen, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Tel: + 47 22 12 10 93
Fax: + 47 22 12 10 99
Mobile: +47 98 83 47 98
E-mail 1: anna.charlotte.larsen@abelprisen.no
E-mail 2: anna.charlotte.larsen@dnva.no

Manager of Information Anne-Marie Astad, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Tel: 22 12 10 92
Fax: 22 12 10 99
Mobile: 41 56 74 06
E-mail: anne.marie.astad@dnva.no

Press contacts for The Abel Prize in the United Kingdom

President of the International Mathematical Union
Professor John M. Ball
Queens College
The University of Oxford
Tel: +44 (1865) 273577 (direct)
Fax: +44 (1865) 273586
Email: ball@maths.ox.ac.uk

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President London Mathematical Society
Professor Frances Kirwan
Work: +44 (1865) 277791
Home: +44 (1235) 850365
Email: kirwan@maths.ox.ac.uk

Mathematician at University of Edinburgh
Professor Elmer Rees
Work: +44 (131) 650 5087
Home: +44 (131) 667 2747
Fax: (+44) (131) 650 6553
Email: E.Rees@ed.ac.uk

Mathematician on Oxford University
Professor Nigel Hitchin
Work: +44 (1865) 273515
Home: +44 (1865) 511746
Email: hitchin@maths.ox.ac.uk

Press contacts for The Abel Prize in the USA

Professor David Mumford
The Abel Committee
Brown University
Phone: 401-863-3441
Fax: 401-863-1355
E-mail: david_mumford@brown.edu

Professor David Eisenbud
President American Mathematical Society
Director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
University of California, Berkeley
Phone: 510 - 642 - 0143
E-mail: de@msri.org

At MIT:

Professor David A. Vogan, Jr.
Head of Mathematics Department
Tel: 617 - 253 - 4991
E-mail: dav@math.mit.edu

Information officer Elizabeth Thomson
MIT News Office
Phone: 617 - 258 - 5402
Fax: 617 - 258 - 8762
E-mail: thomson@mit.edu

Mathematicians who are experts in the Prizewinners fields

Professor Peter Gilkey, University of Oregon
Phone: 1-541-346-4717
Fax: 1-541-346-0987
E-mail: gilkey@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Home page: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~gilkey

Professor Richard Palais, Brandeis University
Phone: 781 - 736 - 3050
Fax: 781 - 736 - 3085
E-mail: palais@brandeis.edu
Home page: http://rsp.math.brandeis.edu/RSPHomepage.html

Professor Edward Witten, Institute of Advanced Study
Phone: (609) 734-8000
Fax: (609) 951-4489
E-mail: witten@ias.edu
Homepage: http://www.sns.ias.edu/%7Ewitten/