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On June 30, 2014, Professor Hyungju Park – Department of Mathematics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Director of Center for Applications of Mathematical Principles (CAMP), South Korea National Institute for Mathematical Sciences (NIMS) – visited Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology.

Professor Park is also the chairman of Organizing Committee of International Congress of Mathematics (ICM) 2014 which will be held in Seoul, South Korea in this August.

Professor Le Tuan Hoa director of the Institute of Mathematics have received them.

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Three-month program on ``High Performance and Parallel Computing for Materials Defects and Multiphase Flows'', January 1 -- March 31, 2015, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

http://www2.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/015hiper/index.php

Five scientists have been awarded the first Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, which carries $3-million in awards for each recipient, reports The New York Times. The award was established by Yuri Milner, a Russian entrepreneur, and Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook.

It is the third in a collection of similar awards established by Mr. Milner; in 2012 his foundation established a prize for achievement in physics, and last year, in concert with a group of Internet entrepreneurs including Mr. Zuckerberg, he began an award for the life sciences.

The five winners are: Simon Donaldson, of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and Imperial College London; Maxim Kontsevich, of the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies, in France; Jacob Lurie, of Harvard University; Terence Tao, of the University of California at Los Angeles; and Richard Taylor, of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, N.J.

Starting next year, Mr. Milner said, eight Breakthrough Prizes will be awarded each year: six in the life sciences, one in physics, and one in mathematics. Each will carry a $3-million award.

Detail see: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/us/the-multimillion-dollar-minds-of-5-mathematical-masters.html?_r=0

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Michael J. Hopkins, one of the world’s pre-eminent algebraic topologists and a professor of mathematics at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2014 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, Northwestern University announced today.

The Nemmers prize, which carries a $200,000$ stipend, is among the largest monetary awards in the United States for outstanding achievement in mathematics.