Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics

The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, also called the Satter Prize, is a bi-annual prize presented by the American Mathematical Society in recognition of an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous six years.

Recipients

The Satter prize is awarded every two years. The recipients of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, and the reasons given for the award, are:^[1]

• 1991: Dusa McDuff  United Kingdom for her outstanding work during the past five years on symplectic geometry.
• 1993: Lai-Sang Young  United States  Hong Kong for her leading role in the investigation of the statistical (or ergodic) properties of dynamical systems.
• 1995: Sun-Yung Alice Chang  United States  China for her deep contributions to the study of partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds and in particular for her work on extremal problems in spectral geometry and the compactness of isospectral metrics within a fixed conformal class on a compact 3-manifold.
• 1997: Ingrid Daubechies  Belgium for her deep and beautiful analysis of wavelets and their applications.
• 1999: Bernadette Perrin-Riou  France for her number theoretical research on p-adic L-functions and Iwasawa theory.
• 2001: Karen E. Smith  United States for her outstanding work in commutative algebra, and to Sijue Wu for her work on a long-standing problem in the water wave equation.
• 2003: Abigail Thompson  United States for her outstanding work in 3-dimensional topology.
• 2005: Svetlana Jitomirskaya  Ukraine for her pioneering work on non-perturbative quasiperiodic localization, in particular for results in her papers (1) Metal-insulator transition for the almost Mathieu operator, Ann. of Math. (2) 150 (1999), no. 3, 1159–1175, and (2) with J. Bourgain, Absolutely continuous spectrum for 1D quasiperiodic operators, Invent. Math. 148 (2002), no. 3, 453–463.
• 2007: Claire Voisin  France for her deep contributions to algebraic geometry, and in particular for her recent solutions to two long-standing open problems: the Kodaira problem (On the homotopy types of compact Kähler and complex projective manifolds, Inventiones Mathematicae, 157 (2004), no. 2, 329–343) and Green's conjecture (Green's canonical syzygy conjecture for generic curves of odd genus, Compositio Mathematica, 141 (2005), no. 5, 1163–1190; and Green's generic syzygy conjecture for curves of even genus lying on a K3 surface, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 4 (2002), no. 4, 363–404).
• 2009: Laure Saint-Raymond  France for her fundamental work on the hydrodynamic limits of the Boltzmann equation in the kinetic theory of gases.
• 2011: Amie Wilkinson  United States for her remarkable contributions to the field of ergodic theory of partially hyperbolic dynamical systems.
• 2013: Maryam Mirzakhani  Iran for her deep contributions to the theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces.
• 2015: Hee Oh  South Korea for her fundamental contributions to the fields of dynamics on homogeneous spaces, discrete subgroups of Lie groups, and applications to number theory.

References

1. Prizes and Awards, AMS

External links

• Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society