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2003 Carol Karp Prize for Symbolic Logic Awarded to Hjorth and Kechris

2003 Karp Prize Awarded to Hjorth and Kechris

The sixth Carol Karp Prize was awarded at the ASL Annual Meeting in June
to Gregory Hjorth and Alexander Kechris for their recent work on Borel
equivalence relations, in particular for their results on turbulence and
countable Borel equivalence relations. The Karp Prize, established in 1973
in memory of Professor Carol Karp, is awarded every five years for an
outstanding paper or book in the field of symbolic logic. The award is
made by the Association, on recommendation of the ASL Committee on Prizes
and Awards, for a "connected body of research, most of which has been
completed in the time since the previous prize was awarded.'' The winners
shared a $5,000 cash award. A lecture on the work of the prize winners was
delivered by S. Thomas at the award ceremony.