Milliman Lectures Linked to Fields Medals

The Fields Medal is often viewed as the highest honor that a mathematician can achieve, the mathematician's version of a Nobel Prize. At the International Congress of Mathematicians in August, the Fields Medals were awarded to Andrei Okounkov, Grigory Perelman, Terence Tao, and Wendelin Werner. Two of this year's medalists have connections with the Milliman Lecture Series at the UW Department of Mathematics: this year's Milliman lecturer is Richard Hamilton (pictured below), and some of his work played a central role in Perelman's solution of the Poincaré conjecture. The following year, Terence Tao will be visiting as the 2007-2008 Milliman lecturer.

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Richard Hamilton, Columbia University Professor of Mathematics and 2006-2007 Milliman Lecturer