June Huh wins the Fields Medal

Congratulations to June Huh (Princeton University) for winning the Fields Medal. The Fields Medalists were announced at a ceremony in Helsinki by the IMU this week. June Huh was an invited speaker at FPSAC’14 that was held in Chicago.

The other medalists were Hugo Duminil-Copin (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques), James Maynard (University of Oxford) and Maryna Viazovska (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).

Huh was awarded the Fields Medal “for bringing the ideas of Hodge theory to combinatorics, the proof of the Dowling–Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices, the proof of the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture for matroids, the development of the theory of Lorentzian polynomials, and the proof of the strong Mason conjecture.” Check out the following popular science articles for accounts of his life and work:

• New York Times article: June Huh’s monochrome chess puzzle paved the way for chromatic geometry
• Quanta Magazine: He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Medal.