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Mathematician Daniele Di Pietro receives the Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics

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Daniele Di Pietro, a professor at the University of Montpellier and director of the Montpellier-based Alexander Grothendieck Institute (Imag), along with his co-authors Bernardo Cockburn (University of Minnesota) and Alexandre Ern (École des Ponts), have received the prestigious “Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics” for their paper“Bridging the Hybrid High-Order and Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods”.

The award was presented to them during the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS), which took place in Beijing in July 2024. The Frontiers of Science Award is given to a recent paper recognized for a major breakthrough in its field. Each year, researchers from around the world are invited to nominate candidates for this award.

A committee of renowned experts is invited to review and select a shortlist of candidates in each research field. A global committee is then formed by the ICBS to select the winners from among the shortlisted candidates. The ICBS conference is a major scientific event. In 2024, it welcomed over a thousand researchers, including 5 Fields Medalists, 3 Turing Award winners, and 1 Nobel laureate.

See also the article “Daniele Di Pietro: The Aesthete of Mathematics”

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Daniele Di Pietro: The Math Aesthete

With the NEMESIS project, mathematician Daniele Di Pietro has just secured €7.8 million in ERC Synergy funding. His goal: to overcome current technological barriers in the numerical simulation of complex physical problems. This is a major achievement for Alexandre Grothendieck, director of the Montpellier institute, who recounts his journey in this field—one he never intended to pursue.