The University of Cambridge has announced the winner of one of its oldest and most prestigious prizes.
The Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John’s College to UK-based researchers, under the age of 40, doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences.
This year's topic was "Discrete Mathematics" and the prize has been jointly awarded to Richard Montgomery (Warwick) and Julian Sahasrabudhe (Cambridge).
Dr Richard Montgomery is recognised for his profound contributions to extremal combinatorics. His many important contributions include his proof of the celebrated Ryser-Brualdi-Stein conjecture on Latin squares, his result on transversal decompositions of random Latin squares, his proof of Ringel's conjecture on tree packing and his work resolving several old problems of Erdős and his collaborators on cycles in graphs.
Dr Julian Sahasrabudhe is recognised for his progress on many longstanding fundamental problems in combinatorics and its interfaces with other areas. These include his work giving the first exponential improvement on the upper bound for diagonal Ramsey numbers, his proof that flat Littlewood polynomials exist, his estimate on the singularity probability of random symmetric matrices and his improvement to the sphere packing density in all sufficiently large dimensions.
The Adams Prize is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams and was endowed by members of St John’s College. It commemorates Adams’s role in the discovery of the planet Neptune, through calculation of the discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.
Previous winners of the Adams Prize can be found here.
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- Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
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