Vincent Calvez and Hugo Duminil-Copin awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize

Two young mathematicians from France are among the ten recipients of the 2016 European Mathematical Society (EMS) prize: Vincent Calvez, chargé de recherche CNRS at l'Unité de mathématiques pures et appliquées (CNRS/ENS de Lyon) and member of the Inria NuMed project team, as well as Hugo Duminil-Copin, professor at l'Université de Genève, who in September 2016 will join the Laboratoire Alexander Grothendieck (CNRS/IHÉS). These prizes, which are given every four years to mathematicians under 35 years of age who are from or who work in Europe, will be announced and awarded at the opening of the 7th European Congress of Mathematics scheduled to take place in Berlin from July 18-22, 2016. On the occasion of the quadrennial European Congress of Mathematics, the European Society of Mathematics will award, among others, ten prizes to young mathematicians who are from or who work in Europe. Previous recipients include Wendelin Werner, Cédric Villani, and Artur Avila, who all went on to win the Fields medal, considered to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics. This year, these prizes will notably reward two French researchers: Vincent Calvez and Hugo Duminil-Copin. Vincent Calvez, who was born in 1981, works in the field of mathematics applied to biology. He completed interdisciplinary coursework at l'École normale supérieure, obtained the agrégation de mathématiques in 2005, and completed a thesis under the direction of Benoît Perthame in 2007.