The First Chen Jing-Run Prize Award Ceremony Held at AMSS

On the morning of July 29, the first Chen Jing-Run Prize Award Ceremony was held at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the “AMSS”).

Mr. Zhang Shouwu, Professor of Princeton University and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Director of the Award Committee, Mr. Dorian Goldfeld, Professor of Columbia University and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, President of AMSS, Academician Zhang Ping, Academician Xi Nanhua, Academician Tian Ye, Academician Zhang Jiping of Peking University, Vice President of Nankai University, Bai Chengming, and researchers from various universities at home and abroad, as well as Mr. Chen Jingrun's son, Mr. Chen Youwei, participated in the award ceremony. The award ceremony was hosted by Prof. Fu Baohua, Director of the Institute of Mathematics, AMSS.

Academician Ping Zhang delivered a welcome speech. Academician XI Nanhua introduced the background and mechanism of the establishment of Chen Jing-Run Prize. Prof. Zhang Shouwu, director of the Award Committee, introduced the list of judges and the process of award evaluation, and read out the list of winners and their comments.

Moments of L-Functions and their applications to the Rankin-Selberg problem and arithmetic quantum chaos by Prof. Bingrong Huang of Shandong University, and Irreducible components of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties by Prof. Sian Nie of AMSS are selected as the first Chen Jingrun Prize for the year of 2024. Prize. Prof. Dorian Goldfeld, Prof. Shouwu Zhang, Academician Nanhua Xi, and Academician Ping Zhang presented the awards to the winners.

In order to commemorate the contributions of Mr. Chen Jingrun, and to promote his spirit of love for mathematics, AMSS and the University Education Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences establish the “Chen Jing-Run Prize” to reward and recognize the outstanding achievements of young talents under 40 years old in the field of Number Theory and Algebra, completed in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. The Prize is awarded every two years, with a maximum of two achievements at any one time.