Nevanlinna Prize
Rolf Nevanlinna Prize
The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, known from 2022 as the IMU Abacus Medal, is awarded once every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:wikipedia
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International Congress of Mathematicians
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The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, known from 2022 as the IMU Abacus Medal, is awarded once every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:
The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize, the Gauss Prize, and the Chern Medal are awarded during the congress's opening ceremony.

International Mathematical Union
IMUIMU, International Mathematical UnionInternational Mathematical Union (IMU)
The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union and named for the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna.
The opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is where the awards are presented: Fields Medals (two to four medals are given since 1936), the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize (since 1986), the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize (since 2006), and the Chern Medal Award (since 2010).

Rolf Nevanlinna
Arne NevanlinnaRolf Herman NevanlinnaHarri Nevanlinna
The prize was established in 1981 by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union and named for the Finnish mathematician Rolf Nevanlinna.
When the IMU in 1981 decided to create a prize, similar to the Fields Medal, in theoretical computer science and the funding for the prize was secured from Finland, the Union decided to give Nevanlinna's name to the prize; the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded every four years at the ICM.



Alexander Razborov
RazborovA. A. RazborovRazborov, Alexander
Fields Medal
Fields MedalistFields Prize in MathematicsFields Medalists
Like the Fields Medal the prize is targeted at younger mathematicians, and only those younger than 40 on January 1 of the award year are eligible.


Jon Kleinberg
Jon M. KleinbergKleinberg
He is a recipient of the Nevanlinna Prize by the International Mathematical Union.

Leslie Valiant
Leslie G. ValiantValiantLeslie Gabriel Valiant
Valiant received the Nevanlinna Prize in 1986, the Knuth Prize in 1997, the EATCS Award in 2008, and the ACM Turing Award in 2010.

Constantinos Daskalakis
Daskalakis
He was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize and the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2018.

Madhu Sudan
SudanSudan, Madhu
He was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2002.

Subhash Khot
Khot, Subhash
Khot was awarded the 2014 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize by the International Mathematical Union.
Peter Shor
Peter W. ShorShorShor, Peter
It was there he developed Shor's algorithm, for which he was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 and the Gödel Prize in 1999.
Robert Tarjan
TarjanRobert E. TarjanRobert Endre Tarjan

Daniel Spielman
Daniel A. SpielmanDaniel A SpielmanSpielman
In 2010 he was awarded the Nevanlinna Prize "for smoothed analysis of Linear Programming, algorithms for graph-based codes and applications of graph theory to Numerical Computing" and the same year he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Avi Wigderson
WigdersonA. WigdersonWigderson, Avi
Wigderson received the Nevanlinna Prize in 1994 for his work on computational complexity.

Raimo Heino
RH refers to Raimo Heino, the medal's designer, and 83 to the year of first minting.
He was also the designer of the Nevanlinna Prize medal.

Chern Medal
Chern PrizeChern Medal AwardChern Medal Foundation
The award is a joint effort of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the Chern Medal Foundation (CMF) to be bestowed in the same fashion as the IMU's other three awards (the Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the Gauss Prize), i.e. at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), which is held every four years.
Turing Award
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Rolf Schock Prizes
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