The Herman Weyl Prize
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The purpose of the Weyl Prize is to provide recognition for young scientists who have performed original work of significant
scientific quality in the area of understanding physics through symmetries.
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Their contributions should be in one or more of the following fields: group theory; development of new mathematical tools
for the description of physical phenomena; interpretation of experimental results; formulation
of general laws based on symmetries.
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The members of the Weyl Prize 2018 Selection Committee are:
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L. Vinet (Montreal U, chair)
M. A. Lledó (Valencia Univ.),
S. Sheikh-Jabbari (IPM, Tehran)
F. Toppan (CBPF, Rio Janeiro)
N. Stoilova (INRNE, Bulgarian Acad. Sc., Sofia)
Weyl Prize awardees:
2018: Simon Caron-Huot (McGill) and David Simmons-Duffin (Caltech)
2016: Vasily Pestun
2014: Yuji Tachikawa
2012: Razvan Gurau
2010: Giulio Chiribella
2008: Shahin Sheikh-Jabbari
2006: Bojko Bakalov
2004: Nikita Nekrasov
2002: Edward Frenkel