Hall Medal awarded to Jie Ma &
Kirkman Medal award to Chong Shangguan
In March 2021, Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA)announced the 2020 awards of the association (http://www.the-ica.org/medals.php for details).
Professor Jie Ma ( University of
Science and Technology of China) won the 2020 Hall Medal, and Professor Chong Shangguan
(Shandong University) won the 2020 Kirkman Medal.
2020 Hall Medal awarded to Jie Ma
Dr. Ma has published over thirty papers in the most prestigious combinatorial journals. He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences, and a member of recognized editorial boards.
2020 Kirkman Medal award to Chong Shangguan
Dr. Shangguan’s research has resulted in 16 published papers, most of which appeared in the very best journals or conference proceedings in the fields of combinatorics, coding theory, and theoretical computer science. A striking feature of his research is the broad range from theory to applications, where tools from extremal combinatorics, additive combinatorics, probabilistic combinatorics, and the polynomial method are involved.