Endre Szermeredi: Abel Prize winner 2012. Photo: Knut Falch

2012: Endre Szemerédi

Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
"for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory"

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The Abel Prize interview 2012 with Endre Szemerédi

Interviewers: Mathematicians Martin Raussen and Christian Skau.

The Abel Prize award ceremony

Award ceremony and acceptance speech in the University of Oslo’s Ceremonial Hall. The programme of the Abel Ceremonies was mostly in Norwegian up to 2017.

The 2012 Abel Prize announcement

The 2012 Abel Prize was announced March 21 in The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Endre Szemerédi: Arithmetic progressions and graph theoretic lemmas

I am going to talk about some of my work and its connection and possible impact on the subsequent work of other mathematicians.

Endre Szemerédi: In every chaos there is an order

Endre Szemerédi's Abel Prize lecture. Programme and summary available in the YouTube description.

László Lovász: The many facets of the Regularity Lemma

Programme and summary available in the YouTube description.

Timothy Gowers: The afterlife of Szemerédi's theorem

Programme and summary available in the YouTube description.

Avi Wigderson: Randomness and pseudorandomness

Programme and summary available in the YouTube description.