Fields Medals
From the SLA-PAM (Special Libraries Association - Physics, Astronomy, Math Division) list:
Fields Medals were awarded today to Andrei Okounkov (Princeton); Grigori Perelman (of recent Poincare conjecture fame); Terence Tao (UCLA); and Wendelin Werner (Paris-Sud in Orsay), and the Nevanlinna Prize to Jon Kleinberg (Cornell). For more info, see the International Congress of Mathematicians (Madrid) press releases at
http://www.icm2006.org/press/releases/
Grigori Perelman has declined the award: http://www.nytimes.com/
2006/08/22/science/22cnd-math.html?ex=
1156910400&en=2f0f90f3df26ce9e&ei=5070&emc=eta1
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