Best Paper Awards for Thomas Nikolaus and Ralf Schindler
Congratulations to our Mathematics Münster researchers Prof. Dr. Thomas Nikolaus and Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler: Together with co-authors, they received Frontiers of Science Awards for their outstanding papers at the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) in Beijing on 16 July 2023.
Ralf Schindler and David Asperó (University of East Anglia) were awarded in the area of Mathematical Logic, Foundations and Category Theory for their paper "Martin's Maximum^++ implies Woodin's axiom (*)", published in the Annals of Mathematics in 2021.
The laudation states: "The paper reconciles two seemingly competing principles, either of which however denies the continuum hypothesis, thus building a bridge, between two major themes of modern set theory - forcing axioms and determinarcy."
Thomas Nikolaus and Peter Scholze (University of Bonn) were honoured in the section of Homological Algebra, K-Theory and Noncommutative Algebra for their paper "On topological cyclic homology", published in Acta Mathematica in 2018. The paper is from the time of Thomas Nikolaus’ professorship in Bonn.
The laudation states: "This paper simplifies the theory of topological cyclic homology using infinity-categorical methods, providing a foundation for important recent work in p-adic Hodge theory and algebraic K-theory."
About the award
The International Congress for Basic Science (ICBS) honors top research, with an emphasis on achievements from the past five years which are both excellent and of outstanding scholarly value. For the 2023 selection, scientific works in both basic and applied research were chosen in 34 areas of the three basic science fields (mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer and information sciences) represented at the ICBS. The prize is endowed with 25,000 euros per paper.
A scientific achievement must meet the following three requirements to be considered: (1) it must have been published in the last 5 years; (2) it must be of highest scientific value and originality and have made an important impact on its area; (3) it must have been evaluated and accepted by scholars in its area.
The goal of this award is to encourage young scholars to look to the frontiers of basic science, set goals to obtain breakthrough results as early as possible, and contribute wisdom and energy to humankind's study of the mysteries of the natural world.
Links:
Frontiers of Science Awards at the ICBS
Webpage Prof. Dr. Ralf Schindler
Webpage Prof. Dr. Thomas Nikolaus