The Nobel prizes – 2024 Announced:
1. The Nobel prize in Physics 2024 – was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton“for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. [News link]
2. The Nobel prize in Chemistry 2024 – was awarded to David Baker“for computational protein design”, and to DemisHassabis and John Jumper“for protein structure prediction”. [News link]
3. The Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 – was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun“for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”. [News link]
Ramanujan Prize 2024 Announced:
The International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTP) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) have awarded the 2024 Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries to Ruochuan Liu of Peking University, China, for his fundamental contributions to p-adic Hodge theory, especially his foundational study of relative p-adic Hodge theory and his remarkable work on rigidity and the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for p-adic local systems.