Lillian Pierce receives the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Bonn, 05.07.2019. The HCM Bonn Research Fellow Lillian Pierce is one of the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional potential for leadership in science and technology.

Lillian Pierce is visiting Bonn at the moment and has recently held a lecture series in Burgess’s method for short character sums addressed to local PhD students and postdocs. In 2021, she wlll organize the trimester program "Harmonic Analysis and Analytic Number Theory" at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics.

Here you can find the press release of the White House and a list of the other PECASE recipients.

Bonn Research Fellows

The Hausdorff Center for Mathematics gives former members the opportunity to keep close ties and intensify earlier cooperation with the HCM. The Bonn Research Fellow program is aimed at selected former HCM Bonn Junior Fellows and Advanced Researchers (W2) of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics who have moved to a foreign research institution after their tenure in Bonn. Bonn Research Fellows are appointed by the HCM Board of Directors for a duration of five years. A re-appointment is possible. During this time, the Bonn Research Fellows spend some weeks every year in Bonn and participate in the teaching activities of Bonn Mathematics.