Results
- Nagloo Awarded 2023-2024 AMS Centennial Fellowship
- Avi Wigderson Wins Turing Award
Nagloo Awarded 2023-2024 AMS Centennial Fellowship
Joel (Ronnie) Nagloo has been awarded the 2023-2024 AMS Centennial Fellowship. The AMS Centennial Fellowship was started in 1973 and renamed the AMS Centennial Fellowship in 1988. These fellowships are awarded annually for excellence in research. Nagloo is an associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. The news release from the AMS can be found at https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7163&utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Informz%20Mailing&_zs=8O2eF1&_zl=3X137.
Avi Wigderson Wins Turing Award
Avi Wigderson won the Turing Award, one of the top honors in computer science, for his wide-ranging contributions to the theory of computation. His work on randomness and computation, starting in the 1990s, revealed deep connections between mathematics and computer science that underlie today's investigations.
You can read more about Avi Wigderson's work here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/avi-wigderson-complexity-theory-pioneer-wins-turing-award-20240410/.