University of Bonn mathematician to receive the Fields Medal’s "little sister"
Jessica Fintzen has won yet another highly prestigious accolade, this time the European Mathematical Society’s EMS Prize. The professor in the University of Bonn’s Mathematical Institute and member of the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics (HCM) Cluster of Excellence is to be handed the award on Monday, July 15, during the ninth European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) in the Spanish city of Seville.The ECM is held every four years, alternating at two-yearly intervals with the International Congress of Mathematicians, at which the illustrious Fields Medal is presented. ...