Dietmar Salamon: AMS Steele Prize

Dietmar Salamon and his co-author external pageDusa McDuffcall_made will receive the Prize for their book external pageJ-holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topologycall_made first published in 2004 as a part of the American Mathematical Society colloquium publications.

Dietmar Salamon is professor at the Department of Mathematics since 1998 and Dusa McDuff is currently Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College, Columbia University.

About the book

McDuff and Salamon's book "is a comprehensive introduction to Gromov's theory of J-holomorphic curves. It not only develops the topic from the basics, explaining essential notions and results in detail, but also describes many of the most spectacular results in this area. McDuff and Salamon wrote the book at the same time they themselves were making contributions at the forefront of the field. They spent nearly a decade assembling the foundations of the subject into this mammoth 700-page book. The prize citation says: '[The book] has since served as the most standard and undisputed reference in the field and as the main textbook for graduate students and others entering the field.'"
(Source: external pageAMS News 16.11.2016call_made)

About the prize

The AMS Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. It is presented annually and will be awarded on 5 January 2017, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta.