László Lovász receives the Abel Prize

This year, László Lovász, shares the prize, which is often called the Nobel Prize in Mathematics with Avi Wigderson “for their foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics, and their leading role in shaping them into central fields of modern mathematics”.

You can follow the awards ceremony, attended by representatives of the scientific community, politicians, and diplomats, live on the YouTube channel “The Abel Prize”.

The program of the two-day online event, organized in honour of the laureates:

Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 3:00 PM: Awards Ceremony

Tuesday, 25 May 2021, 6:00 PM: Online reception

Wednesday, 26 May 2021, 3:00 PM: Lectures by Abel Prize Laureates

The directors of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Abel Prize-winning mathematician Endre Szemerédi and the current director of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, András Stipsicz and the former director of the Institute, Pál Péter Pálfy will be present at the online ceremony.

Although, due to the pandemic, the ceremony did not take place in person last year as well as this year, the personal receival of the award was not cancelled. On 10 May 2021, László Lovász received the award from Ambassador Trine Skymoen at the Norwegian Embassy in Budapest at a ceremony held in his honour, in the company of mathematician Endre Szemerédi and the President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Tamás Freund.

Source: The Hungarian Academy of Sciences / ELTE Faculty of Science