The Rollo Davidson Prize for 2021 has been announced; the joint recipients of the prize are Ioan Manolescu and Daniel Remenik.
Ioan Manolescu (Universite de Fribourg) was recognised for his outstanding work on critical physical systems in two dimensions, particularly the random cluster and Potts models, while Daniel Remenik (Universidad de Chile) was recognised for his transformative contributions to the understanding of the KPZ fixed point.
The Rollo Davidson Prize is an annual prize for young probabilists. It was founded in 1975 in memory of Rollo Davidson, a mathematician and fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died on the Piz Bernina in 1970.
Find out more about the prize at statslab.cam.ac.uk/rollo-davidson-trust.