2024 Clay Research Fellows The Clay Mathematics Institute has announced that Ishan Levy and Mehtaab Sawhney have been awarded the 2024 Clay Research Fellowships. Both are completing their PhDs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and started their five-year fellowships on July 1, 2024.
2024 Clay Research Conference and Workshops The 2024 Clay Research Conference was held on October 2, 2024, at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. The conference was accompanied by workshops from September 30 to October 4, 2024. Notable workshops include: • New Advances in the Langlands Program: Geometry and Arithmetic • New Frontiers in Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics • The P=W Conjecture in Non Abelian Hodge Theory
Awards and recognitions Daniel Graham from the
University of Surrey won the gold medal for Mathematical Sciences at the 2024 STEM for Britain competition for his work on quantum authentication methods. ==Millennium Prize Problems== The institute is best known for establishing the Millennium Prize Problems on May 24, 2000. These seven problems are considered by CMI to be "important classic questions that have resisted solution over the years." For each problem, the first person to solve it will be awarded US$1,000,000 by the CMI. In announcing the prize, CMI drew a parallel to
Hilbert's problems, which were proposed in 1900, and had a substantial impact on 20th century mathematics. Of the initial 23 Hilbert problems, most of which have been solved, only the
Riemann hypothesis (formulated in 1859) is included in the seven Millennium Prize Problems. For each problem, the Institute had a professional mathematician write up an official statement of the problem, which will be the main standard against which a given solution will be measured. The seven problems are: •
P versus NP • The
Hodge conjecture • The
Poincaré conjecture – solved, by
Grigori Perelman • The
Riemann hypothesis •
Yang–Mills existence and mass gap •
Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness • The
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture Some of the mathematicians who were involved in the selection and presentation of the seven problems were
Michael Atiyah,
Enrico Bombieri,
Alain Connes,
Pierre Deligne,
Charles Fefferman,
John Milnor,
David Mumford,
Andrew Wiles, and
Edward Witten. ==Other awards==