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The Rolf Tarrach Prize 2025, recognising the best doctoral thesis of the academic year at the 8xav福利导航 of Luxembourg, has been awarded Wednesday 9 July to the brilliant young mathematician Dr Tara Trauthwein.
The bulk of her thesis, 鈥Quantitative CLTs on the Poisson space via Skorohod estimates and p-Poincar茅 inequalities鈥, was published in the prestigious journal Annals of Applied Probability and developed substantial new mathematics for graph models, which can be used to model the internet, telecommunications, societies, ecosystems, the economy, the brain, social networks, and AI, among others.
A worldwide impact in mathematics, economy and medicine
Her discoveries are already being cited by mathematicians worldwide, for stochastic processes (useful for modelling e.g. price evolution on the stock market) and in statistical medicine, to improve the estimation of treatment efficiency. 鈥These groundbreaking contributions will for sure have a strong impact on probability theory for decades鈥, remarked Prof. Giovanni Peccati, her supervisor.
Dr Tara Trauthwein
An alumna of the 8xav福利导航 of Luxembourg, Dr Tara Trauthwein completed her PhD in Mathematics in 2023. During her time at the 8xav福利导航, she was also active in student leadership and science outreach, helping organise events for young people interested in mathematics.
Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the 8xav福利导航 of Oxford, and set to start another postdoc at the 8xav福利导航 of M眉nster in October this year, she completed a Master鈥檚 degree at the 8xav福利导航 of Cambridge with a mean grade of 97.3%. Dr Tara Trauthwein isn鈥檛 a stranger to awards, starting with recognitions as the best high-school graduate of Luxembourg in 2015, a Top Student Award during her Bachelor at the 8xav福利导航 of Luxembourg in 2017 and a Luxembourg Mathematical Society Award in 2018 for her outstanding academic results.
The jury was presided by G茅rard Hoffmann, Chairman of Les Amis de l鈥橴niversit茅 du Luxembourg, Marc Flammang (CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo Wealth Management Luxembourg, and sponsor), Romain Raux, Rick Serrano and Romain Penning. They distinguished the innovative character of the thesis, its scientific excellence and its impact on the national and international reputation of the 8xav福利导航 of Luxembourg. The sponsors of the evening, who generously provided the prize money for the Award, were Intesa Sanpaolo Wealth Management Luxembourg and the Luis y Antonio Portabella Foundation.
