A recent article in Town Topics highlights a common bond between three of the four Fields Medal winners announced at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians: ties to IAS. Drawing on an interview with Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg, the article goes on to emphasize the unparalleled research conditions at IAS that foster this level of excellence.
Three of the four winners of this year’s Fields Medal, often called the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, are affiliated with the Institute's School of Mathematics: Jacob Tsimerman, Ashvin B. Chhabra and Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra Member and Distinguished Visiting Professor; Hong Wang, Member (2019–21); and John Pardon, Visitor (2016–17). With these additions, IAS scholars have now won 49 of the 68 total Fields Medals awarded since 1936.
Three of the four winners of this year’s Fields Medal, often called the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, are affiliated with the Institute's School of Mathematics: Jacob Tsimerman, Ashvin B. Chhabra and Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra Member and Distinguished Visiting Professor; Hong Wang, Member (2019–21); and John Pardon, Visitor (2016–17). With these additions, IAS scholars have now won 49 of the 68 total Fields Medals awarded since 1936.
Emmy Murphy, Visitor and recent von
Neumann Fellow in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the
MCA Prize by the Mathematical Council of the Americas.
Watch Murphy's citation, given by Helmut Hofer, Hermann Weyl Professor in the
School, in...
John Pardon, current Visitor
in the School of Mathematics and Professor at Princeton University,
has received the National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award, the nation's highest
honor for early career scientists and engineers under the
age...
