The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2024 AWM Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory will be Yunqing Tang, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Tang is recognized for her breakthrough work in arithmetic geometry, including results on the Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture, a conjecture of Ogus on algebraicity of cycles, arithmetic intersection theory, and the unbounded denominators conjecture of Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer. The award will be presented at the Joint Prize Session of the JMM in San Francisco on Wednesday, January 3, 2024. A full press release is attached and linked here: https://awm-math.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/press-release-Microsoft-2024-Tang.pdf
Established in 2012, the AWM Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory was first presented in 2014. The prize is awarded every other year and serves to highlight to the community outstanding contributions by women in the field and to advance the careers of the prize recipients.