VietNamNet Bridge - Prof. Dr. Ngo Bao Chau, last year's Fields Medal winner, has been appointed Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.

Prof. Dr. Ngo Bao Chau, last year's Fields Medal winner, has been appointed Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, according to a decision by Education and Training Minister Pham Vu Luan.

The ministry will announce the appointment decision to Prof. Chau on March 9, said Bui Manh Nhi, head of the ministry’s Personnel Organization Department.

Under the decision, Prof. Chau will Serve as a concurrent director of the institute and is paid salary and allowances under the State’s wage system, Mr. Nhi said.

Part of the national key program for mathematic development in the 2010-2020 period, the Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics has been established as an independent scientific and technological organization for mathematic research.

The institute is put under the management of the ministry and its office is located in Hanoi.

The institute will operate under a special mechanism approved by the Government to encourage overseas Vietnamese scientists to join the institute for the sake of Vietnam’s mathematics development.

Last year, Chau became the first Asian to win the Field Medal, the world’s top mathematics prize, by successfully proving the fundamental lemma conjectured by mathematicians Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad, respectively from Canada and Australia, in 1984.

Source: Tuoi Tre