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<h1 class="ql-align-center">Ciprian Foias Prize</h1> <h2>Context:</h2> <ul><li>Eminent Indian-American mathematician Nikhil Srivastava has been jointly selected for the inaugural $5,000 Ciprian Foias Prize.&nbsp;</li></ul> <h2>About:</h2> <ul><li>The award recognises original work that introduced and developed methods for understanding the characteristic polynomial of matrices, namely the iterative sparsification method (also in collaboration with Batson) and the method of interlacing polynomials.</li></ul> <ul><li>Indian-American mathematician,&nbsp;Nikhil Srivastava along with&nbsp;Adam Marcus&nbsp;and&nbsp;Daniel Spielman&nbsp;was awarded the First&nbsp;Ciprian Foias Prize&nbsp;in Operator Theory by the&nbsp;American Mathematical Society (AMS)</li></ul>