---------- Forwarded message ---------- The 2009 Sacks Prize Awarded jointly to I. Goldbring and G. Sargsyan
The ASL Committee on Prizes and Awards has selected Isaac Goldbring and Grigor Sargsyan, both of the University of California, Los Angeles, as the recipients of the 2009 Sacks Prize. The prize consists of a cash award plus five years free membership in the ASL for each awardee. Goldbring received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, under the supervision of Lou van den Dries. The Prizes and Awards Committee notes that in his thesis, Nonstandard Methods in Lie Theory, he applies model theory to a fundamental problem from topological group theory and that the main result replaces an incorrect proof in a widely cited paper from 1957 using totally new ideas. Sargsyan received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of John Steel. The Committee cited that his thesis, A Tale of Hybrid Mice, contains "uncountably many new ideas'' in inner model theory. _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list Logica-l@dimap.ufrn.br http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
