2006 Fields Medals Awarded at ICM2006 in Madrid

All these folks are GENIUS!

Fields Medalist: Andrei Okounkov

Citation: "for his contributions bridging probability, representation theory and algebraic geometry"
IMU news release about the work of Andrei Okounkov

Fields Medalist: Grigory Perelman

Citation: "for his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow"
(Note: IMU president John Ball announced at the opening ceremony that Perelman had turned down the Fields Medal.)
IMU news release about the work of Grigory Perelman

Fields Medalist: Terence Tao

Citation: "for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory"
IMU news release about the work of Terence Tao

Fields Medalist: Wendelin Werner

Citation: "for his contributions to the development of stochastic Loewner evolution, the geometry of two-dimensional Brownian motion, and conformal field theory"

IMU news release about the work of Wendelin Werner

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For more information, please see
http://www.ams.org/ams/press/fields-2006.html