Victor Guillemin Receives 2003 AMS Steele Prize

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January 16, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI---Victor Guillemin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is receiving the 2003 AMS Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland.

Professor Guillemin is being honored for playing a critical role in the development of a number of important areas in analysis and geometry. He has greatly advanced these areas, and mathematics in general, by mentoring many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, some of whom have become leading mathematicians in their own right.

Further information about AMS prizes may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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