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Professor Ngaiming Mok, Chair of Mathematics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has been appointed as
one of the 9 members of Fields Medal Committee of International Congress
of Mathematicians (ICM), a world-wide congress held by mathematical
community once every 4 years since 1936. The Fields Medal has played
the role of the Nobel Prize in Mathematics for decades, and the prize
this year was selected by the Committee and awarded at the Opening
Ceremony of the ICM in India on August 19, 2010. Professor Mok is
the second Chinese mathematician appointed to this adjudicating body
in Mathematics of high academic statue. |