At each ISAAC Congress, an ISAAC award is presented to a young, outstanding researcher of age at most 40. At each ISAAC congress since 2025, a president award to young ISAACs of age at most 40 is also presented.
The ISAAC award to young, outstanding researchers
The Awardees since 2003:
- 1999, Link to awards
- 2001, Link to awards
- 2003, Henichiro Umezu (Maebashi, Japan)
- 2005, Terence Tao (UCLA, USA) and Dimitri Georgievskii (Moscow, Russian Federation)
- 2007, Michael Ruzhansky, Imperial College London, UK
- 2009, Sergey Tikhonov (ICREA and Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona, Spain)
- 2011, Volker Elling (University of Michigan, USA) and Vladimir Fedorov (Chelyabinsk State University, Russia)
- 2013, Jasson Vindas (Ghent University, Belgium)
- 2015, Jinsong Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
- 2017, Tuomas Pentipoika Hytönen (University of Helsinki)
- 2019, Afonso Jos´e Sousa Bandiera (Courrant Institute, New York, and Z¨urich)
- 2021, Guido De Philippis (Courrant Institute, New York)
- 2023, Hubert Lacoin and Danylo Radchenko (IMPA resp. Laboratoire Paul Painlev´e)
- 2025, Elia Brué, (Bocconi University)
The Awardees 1999 and 2001:
1999
- Daniele Andreucci (Roma, Italy)
Partial Differential Equations, Free Boundary Problems - Dao-Qing Dai (Guangzhou, China)
Complex Methods in Partial Differential Equations, Wavelet Analysis - Lê Hai Khôi (Hanoi, Vietnam)
Several Complex Variables, Partial Differential Equations - P. Alexandrovich Krutitskii (Moscow, Russia)
Partial Differential Equations, Applications - Pei-Chu Hu (Jinan, China)
Complex Analysis - Song-Ying Li (Irvine, Ca, USA)
Complex Analysis of One and Several Variables - Stefano Marmi (Firence, Italy)
Dynamical Systems, Global Analysis - Sergiy A. Plaksa (Kiev, Ukraine)
Complex analysis, Hypercomplex Analysis - Takashi Shioya (Fukuoka, Japan)
Differential Geometry, Global Analysis - Dachun Yang (Beijing, China)
Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations
2001
- Jin Chen (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Inverse Problems - Young-Bok Chung (Chonnam National University in Kwangju, Korea)
Complex Analysis of Several Variables - Michael Dreher (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Weakly Hyperbolic and Degenerate Parabolic Differential Equations - Miroslav Engliš (Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic)
Quantization Methods on Manifolds and Invariant Differential Operators on Hermitean Spaces - Vassili G. Gelfreich (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Dynamical Systems - Maarten de Hoop (Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, USA)
Wave Propagation and Scattering - Frank Jochmann (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics - Alexey Karapetyants (Autonomous University of Mexico D.F.)
Bergman Spaces, Toeplitz Operators, and Singular Integral Operators - Vladislav V. Kravchenko (National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico D.F.)
Quaternionic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics - Ya-Yuang Wang (Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China)
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Shock Waves, and Geometric Optics
Since 2023 we also award Young ISAACs at the congresses. Formal title Presidentʼs award for young ISAACs. The list of those who received it so far is:
The ISAAC President Award to Young ISAACs
- 2023, Bojan Prangoski (Saint Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, North Macedonia)
- 2025, Duvan Cardona (Ghent University, Belgium)
Special Mentions
At some congresses, young scientists were honored with special mentions by the president of ISAAC
- 2015
- Humberto Gil Silva Rafeiro, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
- Yang Yan, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
- Dang Pei, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China
- Matteo Dalla Riva, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
- Marcello D’Abbicco, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
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