Nominations are now being accepted for the NAS Awards to be presented in 2027. Awards will be presented in a variety of fields including biochemistry, computer science, geology, solar physics, and more. Unless otherwise specified, preference will be given to early-career scientists and those whose work hasn’t been recognized by other large prizes or awards. Nominations will be accepted online through Monday, October 5.
Please help spread the word that the nomination process is underway. Questions? Contact awards@nas.edu.
2022 Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics recipient Camillo De Lellis and NAS member Emmanuel Candès have won the 2026 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for their breakthrough contributions to the use of deep techniques from mathematical analysis to rigorously understand applied problems in information theory, signal processing and statistics on the one hand, and to the study of singularities in geometric measure theory and fluid dynamics on the other. See the full announcement.
De Lellis received the Mirzakhani Prize for his fundamental contributions to the study of dissipative solutions to the incompressible Euler equations and to the regularity theory of minimal surfaces.
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