The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics for the year 2020 is awarded to Anton Alekseev from the University of Geneva.

Prof. Alekseev is honoured for his recent outstanding contributions to mathematics, in particular for the discovery of the link between the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group and the long-standing Kashiwara-Vergne problem in Lie theory, for the program of tropicalization of Poisson structures, and for the proof of the Goldman-Turaev formality in 2-dimensional topology. His work unites brilliant intuition, deep knowledge, and remarkable technical skills.

The ceremony takes place on September 24, 2020 in the ESI Boltzmann Lecture Hall. 

• 14:00 Welcome
  Prof. Christoph Dellago, ESI Director, University of Vienna
• 14:05 Laudatio
  Prof. Thomas Strobl, University of Lyon 1
• 14:45 Break
• 15:00 Award — ESI Medal
  Prof. Christoph Dellago, ESI Director, University of Vienna
• 15:15 Award Lecture
  Prof. Anton Alekseev, University of Geneva
• 16:00 Closing
  Prof. Christoph Dellago, ESI Director, University of Vienna

ESI Medal 2020 Invitation

The official invitation is available here.