The André Lichnerowicz Prize for Poisson geometry is a
mathematics
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distinction awarded since 2008 to reward notable contributions to
Poisson geometry
In differential geometry, a field in mathematics, a Poisson manifold is a smooth manifold endowed with a Poisson structure. The notion of Poisson manifold generalises that of symplectic manifold, which in turn generalises the phase space from Hami ...
.
Description of the prize
The prize is assigned once every two years during the ''International Conference on Poisson Geometry in Mathematics and Physics'' to one or two young researchers who obtained their doctorate in the eight years before the Conference.
It is awarded by a jury composed by members of the scientific and advisory committees of the conference, and its amount is financed by one of the hosting institutions or funding bodies.
The 2020 edition of the Poisson conference was postponed to 2021 and then cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
; accordingly, the André Lichnerowicz Prize for 2020 was assigned online on May 27, 2021, in occasion of the Global Poisson Webinar.
The prize is named in memory of
André Lichnerowicz
André Lichnerowicz (; January 21, 1915, Bourbon-l'Archambault – December 11, 1998, Paris) was a French differential geometer and mathematical physicist. He is considered the founder of modern Poisson geometry.
Biography
His grandfather Jan f ...
(1915-1998), whose works have been fundamental in establishing Poisson geometry as a branch of modern mathematics.
Laureates
* 2024: Ana Balibanu
and Francis Bischoff
* 2022: Yiannis Loizides
and Álvaro del Pino Gómez
* 2020: Pavel Safronov
and Xiaomeng Xu
*2018: Brent Pym
and
Chelsea Walton
Chelsea Walton is an American mathematician whose research interests include noncommutative algebra, noncommutative algebraic geometry, symmetry in quantum mechanics, Hopf algebras, and quantum groups. She is an associate professor at Rice Unive ...
* 2016: Pavel Mnev and Travis Schedler
* 2014: David Li-Bland
and Ioan Mărcuţ
* 2012:
Thomas Willwacher
Thomas Hans Willwacher (born 12 April 1983) is a German mathematician and mathematical physicist working as a Professor at the Institute of Mathematics, ETH Zurich.
Biography
Willwacher completed his PhD at ETH Zurich in 2009 with a thesis on "C ...
* 2010: Marco Gualtieri and Xiang Tang
* 2008:
and Henrique Bursztyn.
References
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