Logic List Mailing Archive

2009 Sacks Prize to Goldbring and Sargsyan

The 2009 Sacks Prize Awarded jointly to I. Goldbring and G. Sargsyan

The ASL Committee on Prizes and Awards has selected Isaac Goldbring
and Grigor Sargsyan, both of the University of California, Los
Angeles, as the recipients of the 2009 Sacks Prize. The prize consists
of a cash award plus five years free membership in the ASL for each
awardee.

Goldbring received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, under the supervision of Lou van den Dries. The
Prizes and Awards Committee notes that in his thesis, Nonstandard
Methods in Lie Theory, he applies model theory to a fundamental
problem from topological group theory and that the main result
replaces an incorrect proof in a widely cited paper from 1957 using
totally new ideas.

Sargsyan received his Ph.D. in 2009 from the University of California,
Berkeley under the supervision of John Steel. The Committee cited that
his thesis, A Tale of Hybrid Mice, contains "uncountably many new
ideas'' in inner model theory.