{"350261":{"#nid":"350261","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Subhash Khot Wins the Nevanlinna Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOur former colleague Subhash Khot, now at the Courant Institute of New York University, was awarded the Nevanlinna prize during the opening ceremony of the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians. The citation reads:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubhash Khot is awarded the Nevanlinna Prize for his prescient definition of the \u0022Unique Games\u0022 problem, and leading the effort to understand its complexity and its pivotal role in the study of efficient approximation of optimization problems; his work has led to breakthroughs in algorithmic design and approximation hardness, and to new exciting interactions between computational complexity, analysis and geometry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDetails may be found at the website of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mathunion.org\/general\/prizes\/2014\/\u0022\u003EInternational Mathematical Union\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOur former colleague Subhash Khot, now at the Courant Institute of New York University, was awarded the Nevanlinna prize during the opening ceremony of the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Our former colleague Subhash Khot, now at the Courant Institute of New York University, was awarded the Nevanlinna prize."}],"uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-11-26 17:19:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:37","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/arc.gatech.edu\/","title":"Algorithms \u0026 Randomness Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"111051","name":"Algorithm and Randomness Center"},{"id":"4265","name":"ARC"},{"id":"111131","name":"Nevanlinna prize"},{"id":"171393","name":"Subhash Khot"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDani Denton\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:denton@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edenton@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}