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Prof. David Kazhdan, recipient of the Rothschild Prize for 2010. The Prizes will be awarded in Jerusalem on 15th April 2010. (Nov. 2009)

2009

The Fermat Prize for mathematics research (2009) has been awarded to
Elon Lindenstrauss for his results in ergodic theory and their applications to number theory,
and to Cedric Villani for his contributions to optimal transportation theory and to the study of non-linear evolution equations.
(Oct. 23rd, 2009)

Dr. Noam Berger is among the five young Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists awarded five-year research grants under the European Union's second competition for outstanding starting independent researchers, for his research project to improve the methods of study of processes of random motion in an irregular medium.
The research grants are being given through the European Research Council (ERC). (Sept. 2009)
More information: Hebrew U. researchers awarded research grants totaling over 6 million EUR / Dept. of Media Relations.

Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss recipient of the Erdős Prize (given by the Israel Mathematical Society)
(Feb. 19th, 2009)

2008

Prof. Ehud Hrushovski inducted into The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
(June 2008)

Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award (given by the Rothschild "Yad Hanadiv" Foundation)

Prof. Sergiu Hart elected President of the Game Theory Society 2008-2010
(May 2008)

Prof. Alex Lubotzky lectured at the Abel Lectures 2008
(May 2008)

Prof. David Kazhdan elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
More information: Academy Announces 2008 Class of Fellows
(April 2008)

Dr. Tsachik Gelander is among the five young Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists awarded five-year research grants under the European Union's first competition for outstanding starting independent researchers, for his research project in group theory and geometry.
The research grants are being given through the European Research Council (ERC). (Jan. 2008)
More information: Five young Hebrew University scientists win first competitive EU grants / News@HebrewU

Zlil Sela laureate of the 2008 Carol Karp prize of the Association for Symbolic Logic "for his fundamental work connecting logic with geometric group theory". (Jan. 2008)

2007

Prof. Shmuel Agmon laureate of the EMET Prize for art, science and culture, 2007
(August 2007)

Prof. Ehud Hrushovski elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
More information: Academy Announces 2007 Class of Fellows
(April 2007)

Prof. Alex Lubotzky laureate of the Rector's prize 2006-2007
(March 2007)

Hebrew University team at SEEMOUS 2007 - Cyprus
(March 2007)

The Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics jointly awarded to
Prof. Hillel Furstenberg and Prof. Stephen J. Smale
Press release 16/1/07
(Jan. 2007)

2006

Faculty members inducted into The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities:
Prof. Sergiu Hart Prof. David Kazhdan
(Dec. 2006)

Prof. Alex Lubotzky received a honorary degree of "Doctor of Science" from the University of Chicago
(Oct. 2006)

Prof. Benjamin Weiss, recipient of the Rothschild Prize for 2006 (Dec. 2005)
2006 Rothschild Prize laureates announced (Feb. 7th, 2006)

2005

Prof. Robert J. Aumann, Nobel Prize winner in economics (Oct.2005)

Alex Lubotzky elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (April 2005)
More information: Academy Elects 225th Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members

Erez Lapid, recipient of the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research / The Wolf Foundation (March 2005)

Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences)
Robert John Aumann	2005
János Bolyai Prize
Saharon Shelah	2000
Michael Bruno Memorial Award / Rothschild "Yad Hanadiv" Foundation
Elon Lindenstrauss	2008
Ehud Hrushovski	2004
פרס א.מ.ת. : פרס האמנות, המדע והתרבות EMET Prize for art, science and culture (In Hebrew) A.M.N. Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Art and Culture in Israel
Shmuel Agmon	2007
Hillel Furstenberg	2004
Michael O. Rabin	2004
Robert John Aumann	2002
EMS Prizes / EMS (European Mathematical society)
Elon Lindenstrauss	2004
Erdős Prize / Israel Mathematical Society
Elon Lindenstrauss	2009
Zlil Sela	2003
Shahar Mozes	2000
Ehud Hrushovski	1994
Gil Kalai	1992
Alexander Lubotzky	1990
Ilya Rips	1979
Saharon Shelah	1977
The Fermat Prize for mathematics research / Toulouse Mathematics Institute
Elon Lindenstrauss	2009
The Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize / Foundation Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer
Alexander Lubotzky	2002
Alexander Lubotzky	1992
The Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society
Gil Kalai	1994
Harvey prize / Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Hillel Furstenberg	1993
Robert John Aumann	1983
Michael O. Rabin	1980
פרס ישראל Israel Prize (in Hebrew)
Ya'acov Levitzki	1953
Shimshon Amitsur	1953
Michael Fekete	1955
Avraham Halevi Fraenkel	1956
Arieh Dvoretzky	1973
Yoram Lindenstrauss	1981
Shmuel Agmon	1991
Hillel Furstenberg	1993
Robert John Aumann	1994
Michael O. Rabin	1995
Saharon Shelah	1998
Carol Karp Prize recipients / Association for Symbolic Logic
Zlil Sela	2008
Ehud Hrushovski	1998
Ehud Hrushovski	1993
Saharon Shelah	1983
Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research / The Wolf Foundation
Erez Lapid	2005
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Robert John Aumann	1995
Michael B. Maschler	1995
Levitzki Prize in Algebra / Israel Mathematical Society
Yakov Varshavsky	1998
Mahler Prize / Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Matania Ben-Artzi	1987
The Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in economics and the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in mathematics Northwestern Univ.
Robert John Aumann	1998
George Pólya Prize / SIAM
Gil Kalai	1992
Saharon Shelah	1992
Rothschild Prize
David Kazhdan	2010
Benjamin Weiss	2006
Alexander Lubotzky	2002
Ehud Hrushovski	1998
Sergiu Hart	1998
Saharon Shelah
Hillel Furstenberg
Shmuel Agmon
Michael O. Rabin	1974
Shimshon Amitsur	1969
Avraham Halevi Fraenkel	1962
Leroy P. Steele Prizes / The American Mathematical Society: The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
Yitzhak Katznelson	2002
A.M. Turing Award / ACM
Michael O. Rabin	1976
Weizmann Prize
Michael O. Rabin	1960
Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics / The Wolf Foundation
Hillel Furstenberg	2006/7
Saharon Shelah	2001

Ehud Hrushovski	2008
Sergiu Hart	2006
David Kazhdan	2006
Israel Aumann	1989
Saharon Shelah	1988
Joram Lindenstrauss	1985
Michael Rabin	1982
Hillel Furstenberg	1974
Shimshon Avraham Amitsur	1969
Shmuel Agmon	1964
Abraham Halevy Fraenkel	1960

Year	Invited speakers
1970	Agmon, Amitsur, Dvoretzky, Furstenberg, Lindenstrauss, Rabin
1974	Shelah, Weiss
1978	Aumann
1982	Rabin (Plenary), Shelah (Plenary) [Invited plenary speakers, did not attend because of events in Poland]
1986	Magidor, Shelah (Plenary)
1990	Furstenberg, Hrushovski, Wigderson (School of Computer Science)
1994	Kalai, Lubotzky, Rips
1998	Hrushovski (Plenary), Kifer, Mozes, Shalev
2002	Sela, Peres, Linial (School of Engineering and Computer Science)
2006	de Shalit (Invited lecture on mathematical education)

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