ICM2006 - Highlights and Photographs

Over 4,500 participants attended the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2006, in Madrid, Spain, August 22-30. On the opening day, the 2006 Fields Medals were awarded to Andrei Okounkov, Grigory Perelman, Terence Tao, and Wendelin Werner. The King of Spain presided over the ceremony and bestowed the medals. In announcing the award to Perelman, John Ball, president of the International Mathematical Union, stated that Perelman had declined to accept the medal. Media worldwide had speculated on the Fields Medal recipients, and reported extensively on Perelman's refusal to accept the award. Jon Kleinberg received the Nevanlinna Prize, for outstanding contributions in mathematical aspects of information sciences, and Kiyoshi Itô was awarded the first-ever Gauss Prize, for mathematical research which has had an impact outside mathematics.

Read about the Fields Medal winners and the extensive media coverage, and see the ICM2006 website for details about the program and satellite conferences.

The AMS exhibited over 350 books, and materials about Society programs, including translated versions of Mathematical Moments, and demonstrated the recent enhancements to MathSciNet. Terence Tao signed his book, Nonlinear Dispersive Equations: Local and Global Analysis, in the AMS exhibit area.