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

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Daniele Di Pietro, professor at the University of Montpellier and director of the Montpellier-based Alexander Grothendieck Institute (Imag), and his co-authors Bernardo Cockburn (University of Minnesota) and Alexandre Ern (Ecole des Ponts) received the prestigious Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics for their article "Bridging the Hybrid High-Order and Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin methods.".

The award was presented at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS), held in Beijing in July 2024. The Frontiers of Science Award is given to a recent article recognized as 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 field of research. A global committee is then formed by the ICBS to select the winners from the group of shortlisted candidates. The ICBS conference is a major scientific event. In 2024, it welcomed more than a thousand researchers, including 5 Fields Medalists, 3 Turing Medalists, and 1 Nobel Prize winner.

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