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The Royal Society awarded UCLA Professor Terence Tao the 2014 Royal Medal for his “many deep and varied contributions to mathematics.” The Society’s fundamental purpose is to “recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.” The awards, also known as Queen’s Medals, will be presented Dec. 1. Tao is a member of IPAM’s Science Advisory Board and has been a speaker, organizer, and participant of many IPAM programs.

Dennis Sullivan has been awarded the 2014 Balzan Prize. He is honored "for his major contributions to topology and the theory of dynamical systems, opening new perspectives for generations to come [and for] his exceptional results in many fields of mathematics, such as geometry, the theory of Kleinian groups, analysis and number theory." Sullivan's early work was in homotopy theory and surgery, to which he brought a new, geometric point of view. His geometric insights led to the solution of many important problems on the topology of manifolds, such as the Adams conjecture and the Hauptvermutung. His theory of real and rational homotopy types, based on differential forms, has had profound applications, for example, to the topology of complex algebraic varieties and in Riemannian geometry. Sullivan has made important contributions to the study of foliations and dynamical systems. He has also proved foundational results on quasi-conformal and Lipschitz manifolds, categories that are intermediate between the topological and smooth ones. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was responsible for the emergence of the field of conformal dynamics as a lively and important branch of mathematics straddling the traditional borders between pure and applied areas. In recent years, he launched the field of string topology, which is of great importance in symplectic topology. 

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Ngày 15/9/2014, Viện trưởng Viện Toán học đã ký quyết định số 256/QĐ-VTH điều động GS-TSKH Phùng Hồ Hải từ phòng Đại số sang Phòng Lý thuyết số kể từ 15/9/2014.

Kỳ thi tuyển viên chức đợt 2, năm 2014 có 11 thí sinh nộp hồ sư dự tuyển, có 10 thí sinh tham gia thi. Qua 2 đợt phỏng vấn có 03 thí sinh đã trúng tuyển. Danh sách các thí sinh trúng tuyển

1. ThS. Trần Hồng Hạnh
2. CN Nguyễn Thị Thúy Nga
3. CN Trần Quang Tuệ

The Anniversary Ceremony of Vietnam 40 years at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) was held on September 14, 2014 at Hanoi University of Science and Technology. The Ceremony is co-organized by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), Vietnam Mathematical Society (VMS) and the National Program for the development of Mathematics until 2020.

Attending the ceremony were: Prof. Nguyen Thien Nhan, member of the Politburo, Chairman of Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee; Prof. Dao Trong Thi, Chairman of the NA’s Committee for Culture, Education and Young People; Mr. Nguyen Vinh Hien, Deputy Minister of Education and Training; Mr Truong Minh Tuan, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology; Mr. Nguyen Dac Vinh, First Secretary of the Youth Union’s Central Committee; Prof. Hoang Tuy; the family members of the late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and the late Minister of MOET, Ta Quang Buu; Prof. Ngo Bao Chau and the representatives of other relevant departments of MOET and MOST, Youth Union’s Central Committee, Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations, teachers and students from the gifted high school as well as many generations of IMO teachers and students over the last 40 years.

In 1974, Vietnam first sent a delegation to attend the 16th IMO for high school students in German Democratic Republic. Since then, it has 38 times attended the event. During the past 40 years, the Vietnam delegation has always ranked top ten with 213 medals, including 52 gold, 94 silver and 67 bronze medals; nine students twice won gold medals and six students achieved highest scores.

The event paid tribute to the IMO teachers and students who contributed to the process of training and examination, enhanced the role of the gifted high schools, the excellent high school student contests and the IMO as well as encouraged students to study and contribute their talent to the development of Vietnam.

The Ceremony was not only to honor the achievements in the past, but also to reflect the progress made in education in Vietnam. The successes in the competition of Vietnam have encouraged students nationwide to excel their study in other subjects of natural and social sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Literature, History, Geography) and in foreign languages (Russian, English, French); improved the gifted high school system in Vietnam to discover and nurture talented people who showed off Vietnam’s mathematical aptitude to the world, naming Ngo Bao Chau, Dam Thanh Son, Vu Ha Van as a few. There were many professors, doctors working in Vietnam and abroad and many other people succeed in the fields of management, industry and socio-economic.

Source: VIASM