On the occasion of the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) which took place in July 2024 in Beijing, Prof. Jean-Marc Schlenker was awarded the 2024 Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics for the outstanding paper “Polyhedra inscribed in a quadric”.
The International Congress of Basic Science honours top research, with an emphasis on achievements from the past ten years which are both excellent and of outstanding scholarly value. For the 2024 selection, scientific works in both basic and applied research are chosen in 42 areas of the three basic science fields (mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer and information sciences) represented at the ICBS. A scientific achievement must meet the following three requirements to be considered: it must have been published in the last 10 years; it must be of highest scientific value and originality and have made an important impact on its area; it must have been evaluated and accepted by scholars in its area.
The paper “Polyhedra inscribed in a quadric” was a collaboration with Sara Maloni, Associate Professor at the University of Virginia and Jeff Danciger, Associate Professor at the University of Texas.
‟ “I am grateful to the international committee which selected our paper for this prize, and to my collaborators Jeff Danciger and Sara Maloni for the long but pleasant collaboration that eventually led to this paper. We used ideas and tools originating in theoretical physics to settle a long-standing question — asked by Steiner in 1832 — on the combinatorics of polyhedra in Euclidean space.”
Professor in Mathematics