The Compositio Mathematica Prize


	The Compositio Mathematica Prize in recognition of excellence The Compositio Prize is a prize awarded every third year by the Foundation Compositio Mathematica in recognition of an outstanding piece of mathematical research that is published in the journal Compositio Mathematica during a three year period (n-4,n-3,n-2) starting four years before the year (n) in which the prize is awarded. The prize consists of a model of an algebraic surface. The Board of the Foundation will award the prize during a mathematical meeting in the Netherlands and the prize winner(s) will be invited to give a series of lectures. The jury for the prize will be appointed by the Board of the Foundation. The first prize will be awarded in the autumn of 2009. The Shortlist Here is the shortlist for the 2009 Compositio Prize. As winner of the 2009 Compositio Prize has been chosen the paper D. Maulik, N. Nekrasov, A. Okounkov, R. Pandharipande: Gromov-Witten theory and Donaldson-Thomas theory. II. Compositio Mathematica 142 (2006), no. 5, 1286--1304.