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Publié : 10 juillet 2012

Ingrid Daubechies a reçu le Prix Nemmers de mathématique

Message de Francis Buekenhout

Ingrid Daubechies a obtenu le " Nemmers Prize in Mathematics ". Le palmarès de ce prix depuis 1994, est très prestigieux. Le montant du prix est très élevé : $ 150.000.

Le Prix Nemmers en mathématique (Wikipedia)
- « Le prix Frederic Esser Nemmers de mathématiques est décerné tous les deux ans par l’université Northwestern. Avec le prix Erwin Plein Nemmers d’économie (en), il était initialement doté d’une partie de la donation de 14 millions de dollars des frères Nemmers. Ces derniers envisageaient de créer un prix qui deviendrait aussi prestigieux que le prix Nobel. Dans cet objectif, la majorité des gains obtenus par cette dotation est gardée pour augmenter la récompense offerte. Malgré cela, ce prix est toujours considéré « comme étant la récompense la plus généreuse aux États-Unis attribué spécifiquement pour une réussite académique dans les mathématiques ».

En 2012, la récompense est de 175 000 dollars et le lauréat passe 10 semaines en résidence à l’université Northwestern.

Lauréats
- 2012 Ingrid Daubechies
- 2010 Terence Tao
- 2008 Simon Donaldson
- 2006 Robert Langlands
- 2004 Mikhail Gromov
- 2002 Yakov G. Sinai
- 2000 Edward Witten
- 1998 John H. Conway
- 1996 Joseph B. Keller
- 1994 Yuri I. Manin
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Citation

Ingrid Daubechies
- Daubechies was awarded the 2012 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics

“for her numerous and lasting contributions to applied and computational analysis and for the remarkable impact her work has had across engineering and the sciences.”

Daubechies is the academic leader in the broad area of theoretical signal processing. She is world-renowned
for her many pioneering contributions to the theory and application of wavelets and filter-banks.
Her work on wavelets had a profound impact on the extensive field of mathematical research known as
computational harmonic analysis. It found powerful applications in the areas of data compression,
compressed sensing and digital communications, and it has an impact on a wide range of scientific
disciplines.

The influence of her work is realized daily in millions of consumer and technological products, including
communication systems, medical imaging, seismic exploration and audio and video coders.
Daubechies’ more recent research has focused on discrete geometry, a field which uses very different
methods from those in which she has previously worked ; this work is motivated by real world problems in
computer animation and biology.
Among her numerous honors, she received the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics in 2000,
for her fundamental discoveries on wavelets that are among the most significant in the history of mathematics.
She also was a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation between 1992 and 1997 and, in 1993, was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 1994 she received the American Mathematical Society Steele Prize for Exposition for her book “Ten
Lectures on Wavelets.” In 1997 she was awarded the AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics, and in
1998 she was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Between 2004 and 2011 Daubechies was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor in the mathematics and applied
mathematics departments at Princeton (and was the first ever female professor of mathematics at Princeton).