Екатерина Журавская и Владимир Вапник стали лауреатами премии имени Джорджа Гамова®.
G.A. Gamow award, established by the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA-America, Russian-American Science Association) in memory of the outstanding Russian-American physicist, Professor Georgy Antonovich Gamow (1904-1968) and to encourage members of the Russian-speaking scientific diaspora for outstanding achievements recognized by the wider scientific community, for 2024 is awarded to:
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, professor of the Paris School of Economics “for research that has made significant contributions to understanding the functioning of institutions, including in transition economies, especially aspects related to political economy and media economics”.
Vladimir Vapnik, professor of the Columbia University “for his fundamental contributions to statistical learning theory and, especially, development of a widely used approach known as Support Vector Machines that formed the foundation of modern data science” .