Twenty French mathematicians win Frontiers of Science 2024 prize (Beijing)

Algebraic Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry

• Pierre Colmez, CNRS research director at IMJ-PRG (CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris Cité), Gabriel Dospinescu, CNRS research fellow at UMPA (CNRS/ENS Lyon) and Wiesława Nizioł, CNRS research director at IMJ-PRG (CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris Cité) for their article “p-adic cohomology of the Drinfeld tower: the 1-dimensional case”.

Calculus of Variations and Discrete Optimization

• Dorin Bucur, University Professor at LAMA (CNRS/Université Savoie Mont Blanc) and Antoine Henrot, University Professor at IECL (CNRS/Université de Lorraine), for their paper “Maximization of the second non-trivial Neumann eigenvalue”.

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

• Yves Andre, CNRS Research Director at IMJ-PRG (CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris Cité), for his article “La conjecture du facteur direct”.
• Stéphane Lamy, University Professor at ITM (CNRS/INSA Toulouse/Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier) and Susanna Zimmermann, University Professor at LMO (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay), for their article “Quotients of higher-dimensional Cremona groups”, co-authored with Jeremy Blanc.

Differential Geometry

• Antoine Song, professor at the California Institute of Technology, for his article “Equidistribution of minimal hypersurfaces for generic metrics” co-authored with Fernando C. Marques and Andre Neves

Discrete Geometry and Graph Theory

• Jean-Marc Schlenker, Professor at the University of Luxembourg, for his article “Polyhedra inscribed in a quadric” co-authored with Jeffrey Danciger and Sara Maloni,

Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory

• Serge Cantat, CNRS Research Director at IRMAR (CNRS/ENS Rennes/INSA Rennes/Université de Rennes/Université Rennes 2), for his paper “Dynamical degrees of birational transformations of projective surfaces” co-authored with Jeremy Blanc
• Artur Avila, professor at the University of Zurich, for his paper “Global theory of one-frequency Schrödinger operators”.

Functional Analysis and Operator Theory

• Quanhua Xu, professor at the LMB (CNRS/Université Franche-Comté), for his article “Sobolev, Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces on quantum tori” co-authored with Xiao Xiong and Zhi Yin

General Relativity

• Sebastian Gurriaran, PhD student at LJLL (CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris Cité), for his paper “Surface gravity of compact non-degenerate horizons under the dominant energy condition” co-authored with Ettore Minguzzi
• Jeremie Szeftel, CNRS Research Director at LJLL (CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris Cité), for his paper “The bounded _L2 curvature conjecture” co-authored with Sergiu Klainerman and Igor Rodnianski

Numerical Analysis

• Daniele A. Di Pietro, University Professor and Director of IMAG (CNRS/Université de Montpellier) and Alexandre Ern, University Professor at CERMICS (Fédération de recherche Bézout - CNRS/École des ponts Paristech/Université Gustave Eiffel/Université Paris-Est Créteil Valk-de-Marne) for their paper “Bridging the Hybrid High-Order and Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods” co-authored with Bernardo Cockburn

Probability Theory and Stochastic Analysis

• Yvain Bruned, University Professor at IECL (CNRS/Université de Lorraine) and Lorenzo Zambotti, University Professor at LPSM (CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université Paris Cité), for their article “Algebraic renormalization of regularity structures” co-authored with Martin Hairer
• Thierry Bodineau, CNRS Research Director at LAG (CNRS/IHES), for his paper “Log-Sobolev inequality for the continuum Sine-Gordon model” co-authored with Roland Bauerschmidt.

Scientific Computing

• Jean-David Benamou, INRIA research director in the MOKAPLAN joint team at CEREMADE (CNRS/Université Paris Dauphine - PSL), Guillaume Carlier, university professor at CEREMADE (CNRS/Université Paris Dauphine - PSL), Marco Cuturi, teacher-researcher affiliated to CREST (CNRS/École Polytechnique/ENSAE), Luca Nenna, lecturer at the LMO (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay) and Gabriel Peyré, CNRS research director at the DMA (CNRS/École Normale Supérieur - PSL), for their article “Iterative Bregman projections for regularized transportation problems”.