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University of Washington professors Xiaodong Xu, Cynthia Vinzant, and Shayan Oveis Gharan have been honored by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for their outstanding research achievements. The NAS awards program has been recognizing outstanding achievement in the physical, biological, and social sciences since 1866. The annual awards ceremony will honor the major contributions made by 20 researchers.
Xu received the NAS Award for Scientific Discovery for his experimental observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect. This award, presented every two years, recognizes an accomplishment or discovery in basic research within the previous five years that is expected to have a significant impact on astronomy, biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry, materials science, or physics. Xu's research explores new quantum phenomena in layered two-dimensional materials and engineered quantum systems.
Vinzant and Oveis Gharan, along with Nima Anari and Kuikui Liu, will receive the Michael and Sheila Held Prize for breakthrough work advancing the theory of matroids and mixing rates of Markov chains. The Michael and Sheila Held Prize is presented annually to honor outstanding, innovative, creative, and influential research in the areas of combinatorial and discrete optimization, or related parts of computer science, such as the design and analysis of algorithms and complexity theory. This $100,000 prize is intended to recognize recent work.
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Xu received the NAS Award for Scientific Discovery for his experimental observation of the fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect. This award, presented every two years, recognizes an accomplishment or discovery in basic research within the previous five years that is expected to have a significant impact on astronomy, biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry, materials science, or physics. Xu's research explores new quantum phenomena in layered two-dimensional materials and engineered quantum systems.
Vinzant and Oveis Gharan, along with Nima Anari and Kuikui Liu, will receive the Michael and Sheila Held Prize for breakthrough work advancing the theory of matroids and mixing rates of Markov chains. The Michael and Sheila Held Prize is presented annually to honor outstanding, innovative, creative, and influential research in the areas of combinatorial and discrete optimization, or related parts of computer science, such as the design and analysis of algorithms and complexity theory. This $100,000 prize is intended to recognize recent work.
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- HashTags: #Mathematics #NASAwards #UWResearch
- Company: University of Washington
- Target: Research
- Product: Mathematics
- Feature: Recognition
- Type: News
- Severity: Informative