Award
Professor receives honorable award for the second year in a row
Professor Vivek Shende has for the second consecutive year received a Frontiers of Science Award by the new International Congress for Basic Science (ICBS), who honors top research and emphasizes excellent and outstanding scholarly achievements from the past ten years.
In collaboration with Sheel Ganatra (University of Southern California) and John Pardon (Stony Brook), Professor Shende were honored with this esteemed award for the paper Covariantly functorial wrapped Floer theory on Liouville sectors published in Publications mathématiques de l’IHÉ´S (2016).
This year’s ICBS was held in Beijing, July 2024 and brought together leading experts from around the world covering mathematics, theoretical physics, as well as theoretical computer & information science.
Meet the researcher
Vivek Shende is Professor at the Centre for Quantum Mathematics and at Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA), University of Southern Denmark.
Abstract of the award publication
We introduce a class of Liouville manifolds with boundary which we call Liouville sectors. We define the wrapped Fukaya category, symplectic cohomology, and the open-closed map for Liouville sectors, and we show that these invariants are covariantly functorial with respect to inclusions of Liouville sectors. From this foundational setup, a local-to-global principle for Abouzaid’s generation criterion follows.