Afonso Bandeira: Smale Prize
The Society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) has awarded the 2020 Stephen Smale Prize to Professor Afonso Bandeira.
Afonso Bandeira has been awarded the fourth Stephen Smale Prize for his pioneering work on the foundations of computational mathematics.
The award committee describes Bandeira's research as follows: "Bandeira is an incredibly productive and versatile researcher who has successfully applied and combined concepts and tools from optimization theory, probability theory, information theory, statistics, theoretical computer science, harmonic analysis, and number theory to the design and analysis of algorithms for solving real life data science problems."
Afonso Bandeira has been appointed as Full Professor of Mathematics in September 2019.
The external pageSociety for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) awards the Smale Prize every three years to a researcher who has received their doctoral degree in the last ten years. It recognizes major achievements in furthering the understanding of the connections between mathematics and computation.