Bin Sun receives 2025 Kamil Duszenko Award
Bin Sun has been named as the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Kamil Duszenko Award. Sun is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Michigan State University. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt in 2019 under the direction of Prof. Denis Osin.
The Kamil Duszenko award was established in memory of Kamil Duszenko, an outstanding young mathematician who died in 2014 of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, at the age of 28. According to the web site for the award, it is “also meant as an expression of gratitude to all the people who supported Kamil in different ways during his fight against the disease and ensured that all available methods of treatment were used to try and save Kamil’s life.” The award is granted for outstanding achievements in two fields: mathematics and haematology. The award is also intended to help people understand how important it is to become a bone marrow donor.
As per the official announcement, “Sun’s research connects operator algebras and L²-invariants to classical topics in geometric group theory. He has authored and co-authored 12 papers, some of which have been published or accepted for publication in top mathematics journals including Annals of Mathematics, Advances in Mathematics, Duke Mathematical Journal, and Mathematische Annalen.”
“Among Bin’s early achievements are foundational results on cohomology and finiteness properties of group-theoretic Dehn fillings, obtained in his Ph.D. thesis. More recently, together with N. Petrosyan, he initiated the study of L²-cohomology of Dehn fillings in relatively hyperbolic groups, which led to the verification of the
Singer Conjecture for certain Einstein manifolds. His earlier work has also found further applications in a series of papers on group von Neumann algebras, where Bin and his co-authors obtained groundbreaking rigidity results, confirming conjectures of V.F.R. Jones and A. Connes for a broad class of groups with Kazhdan’s
property (T).”
Congratulations, Bin!