Simon Donaldson
By Andrew Youngson , Ryan O'Hare , Tom Rutland , Hayley Dunning , Murray MacKay , Ms Helen Johnson , George Hope , Stephen Johns. Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From a prestigious prize for an Imperial geometer, to a community event exploring photography and gender, here is some quick-read news from across the College. Geometry prize. Professor Simon Donaldson , Chair in Pure Mathematics at Imperial, has been awarded the 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry along with Professors XiuXiong Chen and Song Sun. The trio received the prize for their three-part series, "Kähler-Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, I, II and III", published in 2015 in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, in which they proved a long-standing conjecture in differential geometry. The Prize is awarded every three years for a notable research work in geometry or topology that has appeared in the last six years.
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