The 26th International Congress of Mathematicians

It is for the first time that the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is being held in India. About 3,000 delegates are expected to be present at the event.

The Fields Medal, the most prestigious global award for mathematical achievement, and three other prizes will be awarded, including one that will be given for the first time at 2010 ICM, the Chern Prize for outstanding life-long contributions to mathematics. All of them will be given away by Shrimati Pratibha Patil, the Honourable President of India.

These are the Nevanlinna Prize  for work on mathematical aspects of computer science (named after Rolf Herman Nevanlinna, a famous Finnish mathematician), the Gauss prize for mathematical work that has had practical applications of great import (named after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest names in mathematics of all time) and, the Chern prize (named after the Chinese mathematician Shiing Shen Chern, one of the greatest geometers of the 20th Century).

More info is available here.