http://www.math.harvard.edu/archive/101_spring_00/www/papers/home/text/paper... gives more information, somewhat comprehensible this time, about work of Maryam Mirzakhani. Due to my ignorance I do not appreciate some of the deepest work described, e.g. now that I somewhat understand what is meant by "earthquakes are chaotic," I am not sure what benefit anybody derives from having proved this...