Frances Kirwan
Frances Kirwan, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, researches in algebraic and symplectic geometry. Her work endeavours to understand the structure of geometric objects by subtle investigation of their algebraic and topological properties. This work calls on facts and techniques from many other areas of mathematics, as well as requiring a specific ingenuity of its own.
Yuri I. Manin
Yuri I. Manin, Professor Emeritus at the Max-Planck Institute für Mathematik, has written papers on: algebraic geometry, number theory (torsion points on elliptic curves, p-adic modular forms, rational points on Fano varieties...) and differential equations and mathematical physics (string theory and quantum groups). His broad research also includes papers on formal groups, the arithmetic of rational surfaces, cubic hypersurfaces, noncommutative algebraic geometry, instanton vector bundles and mathematical logic. Manin has received, and continues to receive, many honours for his outstanding mathematical contributions. These include the Moscow Mathematical Society Award (1963), the Lenin Prize (1967), the Brouwer Gold Medal (1987), the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize (1994), the Rolf Schock Prize (1999), the King Faisal Prize for Mathematics (2002), and the Georg Cantor Medal of the German Mathematical Society (2002). He helds honorary degrees at Université Paris-Sorbonne, University of Oslo and University of Warwick.
Frans Oort
Frans Oort, Professor Emeritus in Pure Mathematics at Universiteit Utrecht.
Sam Payne
Sam Payne, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Yale University.