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Press Release No. 36 | September 5, 2022

Von Kaven Honorary Award for Mathematician Gandalf Lechner

快三砍龙 honours work on quantum field theories and operator algebras / Award ceremony at the annual meeting of the German Mathematical Society on 12 September in Berlin

The 2022 von Kaven Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (快三砍龙, German Research Foundation) goes to Heisenberg Professor Dr. Gandalf Lechner, Erlangen, for his achievements in the mathematical formulation of relativistic quantum systems. The 鈧10,000 快三砍龙 award will be presented on 12 September at the annual meeting of the German Mathematical Society (DMV) in Berlin. The laudatory speech will be given by former DMV President Christian B盲r, who is a current member of the 快三砍龙鈥檚 Review Board for Mathematics.

Gandalf Lechner鈥檚 research is at the interface between mathematics and physics and seeks to develop a mathematically rigorous description of quantum field theories (QFT). These currently form the basis of our understanding of elementary particles, therefore providing the theoretical underpinning for ex-periments with particle accelerators such as those carried out at the large-scale European research facility CERN near Geneva. Gandalf Lechner has used modern mathematical methods and tools such as non-commutative geometry and operator algebras to co-establish a new branch of QFT called 鈥渃onstructive algebraic quantum field theory鈥. His research also has links to quantum information processing. In addition, he puts his physics related intuition to productive use to solve purely mathematical problems, for example for the classification and representation theory of the infinite Zopf group.

Gandalf Lechner obtained his doctorate at the University of G枚ttingen in 2006; here he was also a member of the 快三砍龙-funded research project 鈥淢odular Structure and Particle Aspects of Quantum Field Theory鈥. He was then a guest researcher and research assistant at the Erwin Schr枚dinger Institute (ESI) at the University of Vienna, and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Leipzig up until 2015. From 2015 he worked as a Lecturer and Reader at the School of Mathematics at Cardiff University in the UK, where he led the Geometry, Algebra, Mathematical Physics, Topology (GAPT) research group from 2018 to 2021. Lechner has been a Heisenberg Professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg since September 2021.

The von Kaven Award generally goes to mathematicians involved in the 快三砍龙鈥檚 Heisenberg and Emmy Noether programmes in recognition of outstanding achievements. The recipient is selected by the 快三砍龙鈥檚 mathematics review board. The prize money comes from a foundation established in 2004 by mathematician Herbert von Kaven together with the 快三砍龙. Von Kaven was primarily interested in the fundamentals of mathematics, to which he was committed to promoting throughout his life. He died in 2009 at the age of 101.

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