Prizes – SPP 2026

Basic Science Lifetime Award in Mathematics 2025

After the Abel Prize and the Breakthrough Prizes the next ones in line are the Basic Science Lifetime Awards. In 2025 in the category mathematics they were awarded to Shigefumi Mori for his fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, the Minimal Model Program, and profound influence in the classification of higher-dimensional algebraic varieties and to George … Continue reading

Breakthrough Prizes 2025

Recently the Breakthrough Prizes were awarded (press release). The Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics 2025 goes to Dennis Gaitsgory for his central role in the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture. The New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes go to Ewain Gwynne for his work in conformal probability, John Pardon for producing a number of important results … Continue reading

Abel Prize 2025

The Abel Prize 2025 is awarded to Masaki Kashiwara for his fundamental contributions to algebraic analysis and representation theory, in particular the development of the theory of D-modules and the discovery of crystal bases.

Hausdorff medal 2024

The Hausdorff medal is awarded biennially by the European Set Theory Society for the most influential work in set theory in the last five years. This years recipient is Gabriel Goldberg.

Cantor-Medaille 2024 für Felix Otto

Felix Otto bekommt die Cantor-Medaille der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) für herausragende wissenschaftliche Leistungen […] von außergewöhnlicher Tiefe und höchstem Einfluss für das Gebiet der Analysis und die Partiellen Differentialgleichungen (Pressemitteilung).

Shaw Prize 2024

The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2024 is awarded to Peter Sarnak for his development of the arithmetic theory of thin groups and the affine sieve, by bringing together number theory, analysis, combinatorics, dynamics, geometry and spectral theory.

Ars legendi-Fakultätenpreis Mathematik 2024

Der diesjährige Ars legendi-Fakultätenpreis für exzellente Hochschullehre in der Mathematik geht an Prof. Anselm Knebusch. Prof. Anselm Knebusch von der Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart setzt das innovative Konzept des “computerbasierten Lernens im Hörsaal” ein, um der Heterogenität der Studienanfänger in der Mathematikausbildung der Ingenieursstudiengänge zu begegnen. Zur Aktivierung der Studierenden wird der neue Ansatz des … Continue reading

Abel Prize 2024

The Abel Prize 2024 goes to Michel Talagrand for his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics.