The sixth Vasil Popov prize awarded to Joel A. Tropp of California Institute of Technology. Thirteenth International Conference in Approximation Theory, San Antonio, Texas, March 8, 2010

The Popov Prize honors the memory of Vasil A. Popov (1942–1990), the Bulgarian analyst best known for his work in Nonlinear Approximation. The Prize is awarded every third year to a young mathematician (who obtained a Ph.D. within the previous six years) for outstanding research contributions to Approximation Theory and/or related areas. Previous Popov Prize winners are Albert Cohen (Paris), Arno Kuijlaars (The Netherlands), Emmanuel Candes (Stanford), Serguei Denissov (Wisconsin-Madison), and Mauro Maggioni (Duke).