Two laureates of the Frontiers of Science Awards
At the International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing this summer, the prestigious Frontiers of Science Awards were presented. Two of the winners come from the Department of Mathematics at Uppsala University and they receive the prize for research that is of the highest scientific value and originality and that has had an important impact on their field.
The laureates from Uppsala University are Thomas Kragh and Tobias Ekholm:
Thomas Kragh
- Paper title: Simple homotopy equivalence of nearby Lagrangians
- Journal: Acta Mathematica (2018)
- Authors: Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford University) and Thomas Kragh (Uppsala University)
Tobias Ekholm
- Paper title: A complete knot invariant from contact homology
- Journal: Inventiones mathematicae (2018)
- Authors: Tobias Ekholm (Uppsala University), Lenhard Ng (Duke University) and Vivek Shende (University of Southern Denmark)