Kolmogorov Medal

The Kolmogorov Medal is a prize awarded to distinguished researchers with life-long contributions to one of the fields initiated by Andrey Kolmogorov.

Kolmogorov Medal
Awarded for	Life-long contributions to one of the fields initiated by Kolmogorov
First award	2003
Website	kolmogorov.cml.rhul.ac.uk

The Kolmogorov Medal was first awarded in 2003 to celebrate 100 years since the birth of Kolmogorov. The recipient is invited to deliver a lecture at the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning of Royal Holloway, University of London. Early lectures were published in The Computer Journal.

Recipients

The following people have received the Kolmogorov Medal:^[1]

Year	Name	Lecture
2003	Ray Solomonoff	The Universal Distribution and Machine Learning[paper 1]
2004	Leonid Levin	Aperiodic Tilings: Breaking Translational Symmetry[paper 2]
2005	Per Martin-Löf	100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: what was the problem with it?[paper 3]
2006	Jorma Rissanen	The Structure Function and Distinguishable Models of Data[paper 4]
2007	Yakov Sinai	Renormalization Group Method in Probability Theory and Theory of Dynamical Systems[2]
2010	Robert C. Merton	Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance: Past, Present, and Future[3][4]
2018	Vladimir Vapnik	Rethinking Statistical Learning Theory: Learning Using Statistical Invariants[5]

Publications

1. Ray, Solomonoff (2003), "The Universal Distribution and Machine Learning", The Computer Journal, 46 (6): 598–601, doi:10.1093/comjnl/46.6.598, ISSN 0010-4620
2. Levin, Leonid (2004), "Aperiodic Tilings: Breaking Translational Symmetry", The Computer Journal, 48 (6): 642–645, arXiv:cs/0409024, doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxh124, ISSN 0010-4620
3. Martin-Löf, Per (2005), "100 years of Zermelo's axiom of choice: what was the problem with it?", The Computer Journal, 49 (3): 345–350, doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxh162, ISSN 0010-4620
4. Rissanen, Jorma (2006), "The Structure Function and Distinguishable Models of Data", The Computer Journal, 49 (6): 657–664, doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxl045, ISSN 0010-4620

See also

• List of mathematics awards