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Mathematician Daniele Di Pietro receives Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics

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Daniele Di Pietro, Professor at the University of Montpellier and Director of the Institut montpelliérain Alexander Grothendieck (Imag), and his co-authors Bernardo Cockburn (University of Minnesota) and Alexandre Ern (Ecole des Ponts) have been awarded 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 at the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS), held in Beijing in July 2024. The Frontiers of Science Award is presented to a recent paper recognized for a major advance in its field. Each year, researchers from all over the world are invited to nominate candidates for this award.

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

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