The Louis Bachelier Prize is a biennial prize jointly awarded by the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the Natixis Foundation for Quantitative Research and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI). The winners are prominent personalities, widely recognized in the academic and professional worlds of quantitative finance and/or risk management.
Nominating a Candidate for the Bachelier Prize
Nominations for the Bachelier Prize in 2024 closed on 31 January. The winner will be announced on the LMS homepage in due course.
Eligibility
The prize will be awarded to a mathematician who, on the 1st January of the year of its award, has fewer than 20 years (full time equivalent) of involvement in mathematics at postdoctoral level, allowing for breaks in continuity, or who in the opinion of the Bachelier Prize Committee is at an equivalent stage in their career.
The prize aims to recognise a European researcher (defined as a permanent resident in Europe). Nominees must be permanent residents in Europe. ‘Europe’ is taken as meaning Europe in the geographical sense.
The prize will be awarded to the winner for his/her exceptional contribution to mathematical modelling in finance, insurance, risk management and/or scientific computing applied to finance and insurance. The winner will have a list of outstanding publications in top quality academic journals in the areas of quantitative finance, insurance, risk management and/or computational methods in finance, and be recognized by their peers in academia and industry for their exceptional contribution to mathematical modelling in finance.
The prize winner will receive €20,000 including £5,000 to organise a scientific workshop in Europe on their area of research interests.
Any enquiries about the prize may be directed to prizes@lms.ac.uk.
The full prize regulations are available.
Previous Winners
2022 - Beatrice Acciaio (ETH Zürich)
2020 - Mathieu Rosenbaum (École polytechnique)
2018 - Pauline Barrieu (London School of Economics and Political Science)
2016 - Damir Filipović (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute)
2014 - Josef Teichmann, ETH Zurich
2012 - Nizar Touzi (NYU Tandon School of Engineering)
2010 - Rama Cont (CNRS)
2007 - Huyen Pham (University Paris VII)
Prize Committee
The Bachelier Prize Committee is: Dr Michel Crouhy (NATIXIS - Chair), Carol Alexander (University of Sussex), Charles Albert Lehalle (Abu Dhabi Investment Authority), Rene Carmona (Princeton), Alexis Collomb (CNAM), Rama Cont (Oxford), Darrell Duffie (Stanford/Geneva), Nicole El Karoui (Sorbonne University), Paul Embrechts (ETH Zurich), Rajna Gibson (Geneva), Alex Lipton (New York), Olivier Pironneau (Sorbonne University and French Academy of Sciences), Nicholas Polson (University of Chicago), Denis Talay (INRIA), Thaleia Zariphopulou (Austin Texas).