Fields winner appointed math institute director
His appointment will be announced by the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on March 8.
The Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics is to become a
prestigious maths centre in order to improve scientific capacity of
maths researchers and lecturers in Vietnam .
The Hanoi-based
institute is put under the management of MoET. It operates under a
special mechanism approved by the Government to encourage overseas
Vietnamese scientists to join the institute for the sake of Vietnam
’s mathematics development.
Last year, Chau was
awarded the Field Medal, the world’s top mathematics prize, for his
proof of the Fundamental Lemma in the theory of automorphic forms, by
introducing new algebro-geometric methods.
The
award, comparable to the Nobel prize for mathematics, is a great honour
for Vietnam , making it the second nation in Asia after Japan to
have citizen awarded the medal.
In 2009, his evidence proving the
Langlands fundamental lemma was selected by Time Magazine as one of the
10 most outstanding scientific discoveries of 2009./.