Abel Prize awarded

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize for 2009 to the Russian-French mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov for "his revolutionary contributions to geometry". The Abel Prize recognises contributions of extraordinary depth and influence to the mathematical sciences and has been awarded annually since 2003.

Dr. Gromov visited ICTP in 1985 to give a lecture at a workshop on graded differential geometry.