The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced its 2012 class of fellows on Tuesday, April 17.
Ngô Bao Châu, the Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics of University of Chicago and Scientific Director of VIASM is among 220 new fellows.

Election to the Academy is both an honor for extraordinary accomplishment and a call to serve,” said Academy President Leslie C. Berlowitz. “We look forward to drawing on the knowledge and expertise of these distinguished men and women to advance solutions to the pressing policy challenges of the day.”

Ngô Bao Châu has made decisive advances in modern mathematics on the frontier of number theory and representation theory.

In 2009, Ngô developed a proof of the fundamental lemma of the Langlands Program, which mathematicians had unsuccessfully tried to resolve for three decades. In mathematical terms, a “lemma” refers to a formulation that is needed to solve a larger problem. Time magazine listed this work as one of the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2009.

Ngô’s honors include the 2010 Fields Medal, Oberwolfach Prize, Prix Sophie Germain de l’Academie des Sciences de Paris and Clay Research Award. The Fields Medal is regarded as the highest professional honor that a mathematician can attain.

He also has delivered invited addresses to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006 and 2010. As a high school student in 1988 and 1989, he received gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

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