Dr Alex Usvyatsov receives Shoenfield Prize

Alex Usvyatsov has been awarded the 2013 Shoenfield Prize the Association for Symbolic Logic. The prizes are awarded every 3 years for the best book and best article demonstrating outstanding expository writing in the field of logic published in the previous 6 years. Alex’s prize is for the article “Model theory for metric structures," based on earlier work of Alex’s with Itai Ben Yaacov (Institut Camille Jordan, France) in the field of continuous logic, and that of C. Ward Henson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) on model theory of Banach spaces, and written together with Alexander Berenstein.

The prize was established to honour the late Joseph R. Shoenfield for his many outstanding contributions to logic and to the Association for Symbolic Logic. Generations of logicians have especially valued Shoenfield's expository gifts, and his writings provide models of lucidity and elegance.

Rod Downey was a winner of this prize the last time it was awarded in 2010, this ‘double’ paying further testament to the international standing of the mathematical logic group at Victoria.