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Antonio Montalban wins the 2009-10 AMS Centennial Fellowship

MONTALBAN RECEIVES AMS CENTENNIAL FELLOWSHIP

Antonio Montalban of the University of Chicago has been awarded the 
prestigious AMS Centennial Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. 
Montalban got his bachelor's degree at the Universidad de la Republica, in 
Uruguay, where he grew up. He then got his Ph.D. in 2005 from Cornell 
University under the supervision of Richard A. Shore. Montalban was a 
Dickson Instructor at the University of Chicago for a year and did a 
one-year postdoc at the University of Victoria Wellington. Since 2007, he 
has been an assistant professor at the University of Chicago. His research 
field is logic, more specifically computability theory. He is interested 
in measuring the complexity of proofs and constructions from classical 
mathematics. He plans to use the US$75,000 fellowship to visit Berkeley, 
among other places, and to work on finding the proof-theoretic strength of 
Laver's theorem and other theorems that seem to require proofs of 
particularly high complexity. Read the news release at 
http://www.ams.org/ams/press/cent-fell-09-10.html.