Awards, etc.

Adams Prize 2025

The Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John’s College to UK-based researchers, under the age of 40, doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences. The Prize is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams and commemorates Adams’ role in the discovery of the planet Neptune, through calculation of the discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.

This year’s topic was ‘Mathematics of Statistical Mechanics’, and the Prize is awarded jointly to:

Dr Theo Assiotis, University of Edinburgh, for his deep contributions at the interface of random matrix theory and interacting particle systems; and

Dr Giuseppe Cannizzaro, University of Warwick, for his innovative contributions to stochastic partial differential equations.

For further information on the Adams Prize see https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize.