Robert Morris is awarded at the Congress of the Americas

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IMPA researcher Robert Morris accepted on Thursday, 27, the MCA Prize at the Mathematical Congress of the Americas, in Montreal, Canada. The prize is awarded every four years to five outstanding mathematicians from American countries.

Morris was recognized “for his very influential work in combinatorics and probability, with deep contributions in extremal combinatorics, Ramsey theory, random graph processes and percolation”. Morris was a Murray Edwards College researcher, in Cambridge, UK, holds a PhD degree from the University of Memphis, USA.

IMPA’s director Marcelo Viana, who was in Montreal to promote the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018, said that “Morris has been making very important contributions to discrete Mathematics. The MCA Prize recognizes his high quality research”.

Five prizes of USD 1000 each are awarded to mathematicians who are no more than 12 years past their PhD in July 2017. Eligibility for consideration of nominees requires that they either received their graduate education or that they currently hold a position in one or more countries in the Americas. The choice of the prize winners was based on the documented mathematical achievements of the nominees. The winners gave lectures on their work at the Congress. Morris’ lecture, “Random graph processes”, was also on Thursday. 

Brazilian Umberto Hryniewicz (UFRJ) was also awarded the MCA Prize, for “his profound work on what is now called symplectic dynamics, that is, the study of conservative dynamics using sophisticated tools from symplectic topology, including the proof of a Poincaré-Birkhoff theorem for tight Reeb flows on the 3-sphere”. Other winners are Héctor H. Pastén Vásquez (Harvard University); Vlad Vicol (Princeton University) and Pablo Shmerkin (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina).

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