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| On July 2, 2010, the COMPOSITIO PRIZE was awarded for the first time. The recipients of the prize were Davesh Maulik, Nikita Nekrasov, Andrei Okounkov and Rahul Pandharipande,
who received the Prize for their paper Gromov-Witten theory and
Donaldson-Thomas theory. I, II, published in Compositio Mathematica 142
(2006). |
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| The Prize as such consists of a model of the Cayley cubic surface,
the unique real cubic surface with four isolated singularities, which
is the maximal number of singularities possible. It was suggested that
therefore four should also be the maximal number of authors who can win
the Compositio Prize, unless the Prize is replaced by a model of a quartic surface. |
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| After a laudatio by Gerard van der Geer, secretary of the Foundation Compositio Mathematica, the Prize was handed over to the winners by Joseph Steenbrink, chairman of the Foundation.
The celebration was given added lustre by four lectures by the recipients
of the Prize, which were attended by an international audience of
mathematicians. On the pictures (from left to right): Sir Michael Atiyah, Duco
van Straten, Wilberd van der Kallen, Gert Heckman, Jochen Heinloth,
Eduard Looijenga, Rahul Pandharipande, Jan Strooker, Giovanni Felder, Rob de Jeu,
Marius van der Put, Tom Koornwinder. |
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| Also present were the three managing editors of Compositio Mathematica: Ben Moonen, Bas Edixhoven and Burt Totaro. One of the rare occasions where we met in person without taking any decisions. |
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