Heidelberg Laureate Forum
HLF Laureate Portraits: Maxim Kontsevich
updated
Interview recorded in 2022.
In this series, join us as we meet with the top mathematicians and computer scientists – recipients of the Abel Prize, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the ACM Prize in Computing, the Fields Medal, the IMU Abacus Medal and the Nevanlinna Prize. We ask them about their lives, their research, their careers and the circumstances that led to their awards.
The opinions expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of the video.
Background:
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) annually organizes the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), which is a networking conference for mathematicians and computer scientists from all over the world. The HLFF was established and is funded by the German foundation Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS), which promotes natural sciences, mathematics and computer science. The HLF is strongly supported by the award-granting institutions, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM: ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing), the International Mathematical Union (IMU: Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal, Nevanlinna Prize), and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA: Abel Prize). The Scientific Partners of the HLFF are the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Heidelberg University.
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Interview recorded in 2022.
In this series, join us as we meet with the top mathematicians and computer scientists – recipients of the Abel Prize, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the ACM Prize in Computing, the Fields Medal, the IMU Abacus Medal and the Nevanlinna Prize. We ask them about their lives, their research, their careers and the circumstances that led to their awards.
The opinions expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of the video.
Background:
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) annually organizes the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), which is a networking conference for mathematicians and computer scientists from all over the world. The HLFF was established and is funded by the German foundation Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS), which promotes natural sciences, mathematics and computer science. The HLF is strongly supported by the award-granting institutions, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM: ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing), the International Mathematical Union (IMU: Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal, Nevanlinna Prize), and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA: Abel Prize). The Scientific Partners of the HLFF are the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Heidelberg University.
More information on the Heidelberg Laureate Forum:
Website: heidelberg-laureate-forum.org
Facebook: facebook.com/HeidelbergLaureateForum
Instagram: instagram.com/hlforum
Twitter: twitter.com/hlforum
Flickr: flickr.com/hlforum
Blog: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/
LinkedIn: de.linkedin.com/company/heidelberg-laureate-forum-foundation
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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In the Vlog, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas, editors of www.plus.maths.org, guide you through the days during the HLF, talking to participants and giving you a glimpse behind the scenes.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022.
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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The advent of fault-tolerant quantum computers will be one of the defining moments in the history of computation. One of the negative aspects, however, is that these devices will break all of today's deployed public key cryptography. In this panel, designers of current mainstream encryption and future quantum-safe encryption methods will try to shed some light on the situation, discuss what is being done, and why one should already now start using quantum-safe encryption.
Moderator: Tom Geller
Tom Geller Productions
Vinton Gray Cerf
ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2004
Together with Robert E. Kahn for pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet’s basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking.
Whitfield Diffie
ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2015
Together with Martin Hellman for inventing and promulgating both asymmetric public-key cryptography, including its application to digital signatures, and a practical cryptographic key-exchange method.
Adi Shamir
ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2002
Together with Leonard M. Adleman and Ronald Rivest, for their ingenious contribution to making public-key cryptography useful in practice.
Vadim Lyubashevsky
Vadim Lyubashevsky is a principal research scientist in the cryptography group at IBM Research Europe in Zurich. Vadim’s area of research is the design of efficient quantum-safe cryptographic primitives based on the hardness of lattice problems. His work served as blueprints for both schemes which were recently chosen as primary standards in the NIST post-quantum standardization process.
Gregor Seiler
Gregor Seiler is a Research Scientist at IBM Research Europe in Zürich. He is working on the theory and practice of quantum-safe cryptography and lattice-based zero-knowledge proof systems. Gregor contributed to the design and implementation of three of the four schemes recently selected by NIST as the upcoming quantum-safe standards for public-key encryption and digital signatures.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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Abstract: Much of the fundamental research in computer science has been driven by the needs of those attempting to utilize computing for various applications, such as health or climate. Given the remarkable growth in computational capabilities, computing hardware, and development tools, Dr. Patel will discuss how more than ever computing is playing a critical role in social good. He we will highlight examples of how computing is driving new scientific discoveries across multiple disciplines in the hope to inspire rising computing researchers to think about how they can tie their work to impactful applications.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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In the Vlog, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas, editors of www.plus.maths.org, guide you through the days during the HLF, talking to participants and giving you a glimpse behind the scenes.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022.
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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In this talk, we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 40-years and look toward the future in terms of trends. These changes have had and will continue to have a significant impact on our numerical scientific software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms are needed to effectively use the high performance computing environments in use today.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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Exploring new methods of science communication for mathematics and computer science and how to rebuild trust with the public
In addition to the general crisis of trust in science and the media, researchers and science communicators are experiencing a certain hesitation to communicate on topics in the fields of computer science and mathematics in particular. Many topics in these fields often appear too complicated to communicate to a general public. At the same time, these fields deal with many important topics that also deeply affect the lives of ordinary citizens. Therefore, it is all the more important to communicate them well and report on them in a manner that conveys this relevance. After all, only well-informed citizens can make responsible decisions about their future. We see time and again that public discourse on scientific issues often lacks focus and the requisite depth because those who can make serious contributions to it are not heard or are reluctant to speak up. How can the scientific community and science journalism help counteract these trends? How can mathematics and computer science in particular be communicated in a way that sparks the public’s curiosity and interest? How can the scientific media’s discourse help increase the public’s measure of trust in it? What cutting-edge journalistic genres, styles and methods can provide new avenues and opportunities for science communication, particularly for complex issues? This panel will explore those questions in detail.
Moderator:
Eva Wolfangel
Panelists:
Yann LeCun (ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2018), Anil Ananthaswamy, Eugenia Cheng and Anna Maria Hartkopf
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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While simply applying these tools seems to revolutionize a great number of industries and fields, the implications of using tools that can be hard to parse – even for their creators – should not be ignored. With such promise and excitement surrounding the field for both those who build the tools and those who wish to use them, how will this area of research continue to develop?
In the 2022 Hot Topic, we will explore the applications and implications of Deep Learning. The conversation will open with a panel of experts in the field, including the recipients of the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, who received the prize for their foundational work in deep neural networks. Touching on the science behind the technology, how the field has evolved, and the societal and ethical implications of the tools that Deep Learning enables, the panel will open up the larger conversation and highlight the topics that are key in this field for researchers, engineers, and those who are touched by these tools. Next, the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions. Afterwards, we will invite the audience into small group discussions and reflections during the break. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the topic in-person or online. Finally, we will reconvene to discuss the ideas surfaced in a debriefing onstage.
Moderator:
Katherine Gorman
Panelists:
Sanjeev Arora (ACM Prize in Computing - 2011), Yoshua Bengio (ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2018), Yann LeCun (ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2018), Raj Reddy (ACM A.M. Turing Award - 1994), Been Kim, Dina Machuve, Shakir Mohamed and Shannon Vallor.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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One of Alan Turing's most influential papers is his 1950 Computing machinery and intelligence, in which he introduces the famous "Turing test" for probing the nature of intelligence by evaluating the abilities of machines to behave as humans. In this test, which he calls the "Imitation Game," a (human) referee has to distinguish between two (remote and separate) entities, a human and a computer, only by observing answers to a sequence of arbitrary questions to each entity. This lecture will exposit, through examples from a surprisingly diverse array of settings, the remarkable power of this basic idea to understand many other concepts. I will discuss variations of the Imitation Game in which we change the nature of the referee, and of the objects to be distinguished, to yield different analogs of the Turing test. These new Imitation Games lead to novel, precise, and operative definitions of classical notions, including secret, knowledge, privacy, randomness, proof, fairness, and others. These definitions have in turn led to numerous results, applications, and understanding. Some, among many consequences of this fundamental paradigm, are the foundations of cryptography, the surprising discoveries on the power and limits of randomness, the recent influential notion of differential privacy, and breakthrough results on patterns in the prime numbers and navigation in networks. Central to each of these settings are computational and information theoretic limitations placed on the referee in the relevant Imitation Game. This lecture will survey some of these developments and speculate on future uses of this paradigm in science and society, in a way which is hopefully accessible without any specific background knowledge.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
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Experts and laureates from diverse specializations examine various issues and engage in a lively, in-depth debate.
Moderator: Ragni Piene
University of Oslo
Eric A. Brewer
ACM Prize in Computing - 2009
For his design and development of highly scalable internet services and innovations in bringing information technology to developing regions.
Alexei Efros
ACM Prize in Computing - 2016
For groundbreaking data-driven approaches to computer graphics and computer vision.
Shigefumi Mori
Fields Medal - 1990
For important developments in algebraic geometry: the Minimal Model Program or Mori’s Program, in connection with the classification problems of algebraic varieties of dimension three.
Carlos Kenig
President International Mathematical Union (IMU)
Cherri M. Pancake
Oregon State University
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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In the Vlog, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas, editors of www.plus.maths.org, guide you through the days during the HLF, talking to participants and giving you a glimpse behind the scenes.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022.
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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Moderator: Vicki Hanson
CEO, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Vinton Gray Cerf
ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2004
Together with Robert E. Kahn for pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet’s basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking.
Leslie Lamport
ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2013
For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention of concepts such as causality and logical clocks, safety and liveness, replicated state machines, and sequential consistency.
Joseph Sifakis
ACM A.M. Turing Award - 2007
Together with Edmund Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for their role in developing Model Checking into a highly effective verification technology that is widely adopted in the hardware and software industries.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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More than one hundred years ago, Albert Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity (GR). One year later, Karl Schwarzschild solved the GR equations for a non-rotating, spherical mass distribution; if this mass is sufficiently compact, even light cannot escape from within the so-called event horizon, and there is a mass singularity at the center. The theoretical concept of a 'black hole' was born, and was refined in the next decades by work of Penrose, Wheeler, Kerr, Hawking and many others. First indirect evidence for the existence of such black holes in our Universe came from observations of compact X-ray binaries and distant luminous quasars. I will discuss the forty year journey, which my colleagues and I have been undertaking to study the mass distribution in the Center of our Milky Way from ever more precise, long term studies of the motions of gas and stars as test particles of the space time. These studies show the existence of a four million solar mass object, which must be a single massive black hole, beyond any reasonable doubt.
To signify the close bond between the @LindauNobelLaureateMeetingsand the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, each year a laureate is selected to give a guest lecture at the respective meeting. This year’s Lindau Lecture will be held by German astrophysicist Reinhard Genzel, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
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In 1972 the speaker invented an algorithm to find the strong components of a directed graph in linear time. The algorithm illustrates the power of depth-first search in solving graph problems. This talk will present the algorithm, along with reflections fifty years later.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
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Pooja Bharadwaj/Jie Li
Masters of Ceremonies
Beate Spiegel
Chairperson of Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation/Managing Director of Klaus Tschira Foundation
Anna Wienhard
Scientific Chairperson of Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Bettina Stark-Watzinger
German Federal Minister of Education and Research
Bernhard Eitel
Rector of Heidelberg University
Sabine Bendiek
Chief People & Operating Officer, Labor Relations Director, and Member of the Executive Board at SAP
Yannis Ioannidis
President of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Carlos Kenig
President of International Mathematical Union (IMU)
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund
General Secretary of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA)
Musical setting by the saxophone quartet “Balanced Action”
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022. #HLF22
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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In the Vlog, Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas, editors of www.plus.maths.org, guide you through the days during the HLF, talking to participants and giving you a glimpse behind the scenes.
The 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18–23, 2022.
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.
The opinions expressed in the videos do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of these videos.
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Peter D. Lax, Abel Prize, 2005.
Interview recorded in 2016.
The opinions expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of the video.
Complete Interview of Peter D. Lax: youtu.be/oT0b9IwDhcI
Find more Shortcuts of other laureates in the playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS0TjJA_GZXeEXxZbyikvVUaLMWvRuK9g
More information about the Heidelberg Laureate Forum: heidelberg-laureate-forum.org
Get a brief, inspiring impression of Shing-Tung Yau, Fields Medal, 1982.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of Shing-Tung Yau: youtu.be/RMdgOKxSF5o
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan, Abel Prize, 2007.
Interview recorded in 2016.
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Complete Interview of Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan: youtu.be/h3-l9s-GHrE
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of John Torrence Tate, Abel Prize, 2010.
Interview recorded in 2016.
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Complete Interview of John Torrence Tate: youtu.be/KF9m75pYDM0
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Yakov G. Sinai, Abel Prize, 2014.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of Yakov G. Sinai: youtu.be/57wQS0PmEz0
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Dana Stewart Scott, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 1976.
Interview recorded in 2017.
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Complete Interview of Dana Stewart Scott: youtu.be/8QwhKAFquZY
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Ronald Linn Rivest, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 2002.
Interview recorded in 2020.
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Complete Interview of Ronald Linn Rivest: youtu.be/CYolQvtk2zo
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Gregory Margulis, Fields Medal, 1978.
Interview recorded in 2017.
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Complete Interview of Gregory Margulis: youtu.be/Rota64R1CN0
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich, Fields Medal, 1998.
Interview recorded in 2018.
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Complete Interview of Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich: youtu.be/1CXvSRQVoZY
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Sir William Timothy Gowers, Fields Medal, 1998.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of Sir William Timothy Gowers: youtu.be/7F97Q1DGOkE
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Simon K. Donaldson Fields Medal, 1986.
Interview recorded in 2020.
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Complete Interview of Simon K. Donaldson: youtu.be/dVoF25zQ-oU
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Fernando J. Corbato, ACM A.M. Turing Award,, 1990.
Interview recorded in 2017.
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Complete Interview of Fernando J. Corbato: youtu.be/bPyPubIicsU
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Leonard Max Adleman, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 2002.
Interview recorded in 2018.
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Complete Interview of Leonard Max Adleman: youtu.be/D8sikDe3YzM
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Subhash Khot, Nevanlinna Prize, 2014.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of Subhash Khot: youtu.be/D-UyuJSLrrk
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Richard Manning Karp, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 1985.
Interview recorded in 2017.
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Complete Interview of Richard Manning Karp: youtu.be/lLlV90Mah0c
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Geoffrey E. Hinton, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 2018.
Interview recorded in 2020.
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Complete Interview of Geoffrey E. Hinton: youtu.be/z9Fz96Mr4bM
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of John L. Hennessy, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 2017.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of John L. Hennessy: youtu.be/PGo7woUDmLY
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Juris Hartmanis, PACM A.M. Turing Award, 1993.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of Juris Hartmanis: youtu.be/AxbKu7MrqA4
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Charles Louis Fefferman, Fields Medal, 1978.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of Charles Louis Fefferman: youtu.be/3r3jULblMvY
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Charles William Bachman, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 1973.
Interview recorded in 2016.
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Complete Interview of Charles William Bachman: youtu.be/67iC75CPRMw
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Butler W. Lampson, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 1992.
Interview recorded in 2017.
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Complete Interview of Butler W. Lampson: youtu.be/9xwTB1sCwIk
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Andrei Okounkov, Fields Medal, 2006.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of Andrei Okounkov: youtu.be/QEw-Rb7oLp0
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Edward Witten, Fields Medal, 1990.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of Edward Witten: youtu.be/-WAwmK6BTjI
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Stephen Arthur Cook, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 1982.
Interview recorded in 2020.
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Complete Interview of Stephen Arthur Cook: youtu.be/3WRytFD3m6g
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Louis Nirenberg, Abel Prize, 2015.
Interview recorded in 2016.
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Complete Interview of Louis Nirenberg: youtu.be/cO_a0TutTsk
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Edward A. Feigenbaum, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 1994.
Interview recorded in 2016.
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Complete Interview of Edward A. Feigenbaum: youtu.be/PaV-967vi68
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Sanjeev Arora, ACM Prize in Computing, 2011.
Interview recorded in 2017.
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Complete Interview of Sanjeev Arora: youtu.be/AFrQNcG0Qbo
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Donald Ervin Knuth, ACM A.M. Turing Award, 1974.
Interview recorded in 2016.
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Complete Interview of Donald Ervin Knuth: youtu.be/BYkFfCqen7M
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Dina Katabi, ACM Prize in Computing, 2017.
Interview recorded in 2019.
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Complete Interview of Dina Katabi: youtu.be/y9RmRvvZ1tk
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Get a brief, inspiring impression of Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Abel Prize, 2009.
Interview recorded in 2018.
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Complete Interview of Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov: youtu.be/ZRoprC3oZ1E
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