17 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics Laureates

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17 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics Laureates

YearCeremony locationLaureatesAffiliation (when awarded)Affiliation (current/last)Reasons
2015Mountain View, USSimon DonaldsonStony Brook University, US & Imperial College London, UKStony Brook University, US & Imperial College London, UK“For the new revolutionary invariants of 4-dimensional manifolds and for the study of the relation between stability in algebraic geometry and in global differential geometry, both for bundles and for Fano varieties.”
2015Mountain View, USMaxim KontsevichInstitut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, FranceInstitut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France“For work making a deep impact in a vast variety of mathematical disciplines, including algebraic geometry, deformation theory, symplectic topology, homological algebra and dynamical systems.”
2015Mountain View, USJacob LurieHarvard University, USInstitute for Advanced Study, US“For his work on the foundations of higher category theory and derived algebraic geometry; for the classification of fully extended topological quantum field theories; and for providing a moduli-theoretic interpretation of elliptic cohomology.”
2015Mountain View, USTerence TaoUniversity of California, Los Angeles, USUniversity of California, Los Angeles, US“For numerous breakthrough contributions to harmonic analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations and analytic number theory.”
2015Mountain View, USRichard TaylorInstitute for Advanced Study, USStanford University, US“For numerous breakthrough results in the theory of automorphic forms, including the Taniyama–Weil conjecture, the local Langlands conjecture for general linear groups, and the Sato–Tate conjecture.”
2016Mountain View, USIan AgolUniversity of California, Berkeley, US & Institute for Advanced Study, USUniversity of California, Berkeley, US“For spectacular contributions to low dimensional topology and geometric group theory, including work on the solutions of the tameness, virtually Haken and virtual fibering conjectures.”
2017Mountain View, USJean BourgainInstitute for Advanced Study, USInstitute for Advanced Study, US (Deceased)“For multiple transformative contributions to analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations, high-dimensional geometry and number theory.”
2018Mountain View, USChristopher HaconUniversity of Utah, USUniversity of Utah, US“For transformational contributions to birational algebraic geometry, especially to the minimal model program in all dimensions.”
2018Mountain View, USJames McKernanUniversity of California, San Diego, USUniversity of California, San Diego, US“For transformational contributions to birational algebraic geometry, especially to the minimal model program in all dimensions.”
2019Mountain View, USVincent LafforgueCNRS & Université de Grenoble Alpes, FranceCNRS & Université de Grenoble Alpes, France“For ground-breaking contributions to several areas of mathematics, in particular to the Langlands program in the function field case.”
2020Mountain View, USAlex EskinUniversity of Chicago, USUniversity of Chicago, US“For revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the ‘magic wand theorem’ with Maryam Mirzakhani.”
2021Los Angeles, US (Virtual)Martin HairerImperial College London, UKEPFL, Switzerland“For transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis, particularly the theory of regularity structures in stochastic partial differential equations.”
2022Los Angeles, US (Virtual)Takuro Mochizuki (望月拓郎)Kyoto University, JapanKyoto University, Japan“For monumental work leading to a breakthrough in our understanding of the theory of holonomic D-modules, including the proof of the Kashiwara conjecture for semisimple harmonic bundles.”
2023Los Angeles, USDaniel SpielmanYale University, USYale University, US“For breakthrough contributions to theoretical computer science and mathematics, including to spectral graph theory, the Kadison–Singer problem, numerical linear algebra, optimization and coding theory.”
2024Los Angeles, USSimon BrendleColumbia University, USColumbia University, US“For transformative contributions to differential geometry, including sharp geometric inequalities, many results on Ricci flow and mean curvature flow and the Lawson conjecture on minimal tori in the 3-sphere.”
2025Los Angeles, USDennis GaitsgoryMax Planck Institute for Mathematics, GermanyMax Planck Institute for Mathematics, Germany“For breakthroughs in the Langlands program, specifically for the geometric Langlands conjecture.”
2026Los Angeles, USFrank MerleCY Cergy Paris Université & IHÉS, FranceCY Cergy Paris Université & IHÉS, France“For breakthroughs in nonlinear evolution equations, with regards to their stability, singularity formation, or resolution into solitons.”