Alexander Braverman, Jacob Tsimerman, and Robert Haslhofer have been awarded the Frontiers of Science Award

July 17, 2023 by International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS)

The International Congress for Basic Science honors top research, with an emphasis on achievements from the past five years which are both excellent and of outstanding scholarly value. For the 2023 selection, scientific works in both basic and applied research are chosen in 34 areas of the three basic science fields (mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer and information sciences) represented at the ICBS. A scientific achievement must meet the following three requirements to be considered:

  1. It must have been published in the last 5 years
  2. It must be of highest scientific value and originality and have made an important impact on its area
  3. It must have been evaluated and accepted by scholars in its area. 

The goal of this award is to encourage young scholars to look to the frontiers of basic science, set goals to obtain breakthrough results as early as possible, and contribute wisdom and energy to humankind's study of the mysteries of the natural world.

Mathematical Logic, Foundations and Category Theory

Paper title: Ax-Schanuel for Shimura varieties

Journal: Annals of Mathematics (2019)

Authors: Ngaiming Mok (University of Hong Kong) 

Jonathan Pila (University of Oxford) 

Jacob Tsimerman (University of Toronto) 

Mathematics of String Theory and Condensed Matter

Paper title: Towards a mathematical definition of Coulomb branches of 3-dimensional N = 4 gauge theories, II

Journal: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (2018)

Authors: Alexander Braverman (University of Toronto) 

Michael Finkelberg (HSE University) 

Hiraku Nakajima (The University of Tokyo) 

Homological Algebra, K-Theory and Noncommutative Algebra

Paper title: Coulomb branches of 3d N=4 quiver gauge theories and slices in the affine Grassmannian

Journal: Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (2019)

Authors: Alexander Braverman (University of Toronto) 

Michael Finkelberg (HSE University) 

Hiraku Nakajima (IPMU) 

Geometric Analysis

Paper title: Ancient low-entropy flows mean-convex neighborhoods, and uniqueness

Journal: Acta Mathematica (2022)

Authors: Kyeongsu Choi (Korea Institute for Advanced Study) 

Robert Haslhofer (University of Toronto) 

Or Hershkovits (Hebrew University) 

See full list of Frontiers of Science Award winners.

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