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Maryna Viazovska
Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is a full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. She was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.
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science · Ukrainian mathematician (born 1984) · mathematician · university teacher · also Maryna Viazovska, Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska, Maryna S. Viazovska, Viazovska
Born 2 December 1984 · Q23721911
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from Sorbonne University (2025).
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2022· 7 entries
Time: Maryna Viazovska
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Phys.org: Maryna Viazovska, Ukrainian Fields winner 'changed forever' by war
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L'Unione Sarda: Ukrainian Maryna Viazovska wins the Fields medal, the “Nobel” for mathematics
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Won Fields medal (2022).
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Awarded BBC 100 Women (2022).
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Awarded Order of Merit, 1st class (2022).
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“We have no mathematicians in the family; my mom, dad, grandma, and grandpa are all chemists. It seems to me that my story is quite common. When I was 12 years old, I entered a school specializing in physics and mathematics and started taking part in mathematics olympiads. Then I realized that I wanted to be a mathematician.”
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2020· 3 entries
Awarded Swiss Science Prize Latsis (2020).
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Awarded EMS Prize (2020).
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Also received the National Latsis Prize awarded by the Latsis Foundation
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2019· 3 entries
Awarded Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics (2019).
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Awarded Fermat Prize (2019).
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Viazovska and her team solved a mathematical equation that determines how an infinite number of points repelling each other are placed in 8- and 24-dimensional spaces
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2018).
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Viazovska and her collaborators significantly extended their sphere packing results in dimensions 8 and 24 to address potential energy minimization
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2017· 3 entries
Awarded Clay Research Award (2017).
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Awarded European Prize in Combinatorics (2017).
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Awarded SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2017).
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2016· 3 entries
Awarded Salem Prize (2016).
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Viazovska solved the sphere-packing problem in dimension 8
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Viazovska received the Salem Prize and, in 2017, the Clay Research Award and the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for her work on sphere packing and modular forms
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2013· 1 entry
Studied at University of Bonn, Doctor of Natural Sciences (2013).
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2007· 2 entries
PhD from the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2010, and a doctorate (Dr
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Studied at University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, master's degree (2007).
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2005· 1 entry
Studied at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, bachelor's degree (2005).
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2002· 1 entry
2003, 2004, and 2005, and was one of the first-place winners in 2002 and 2005
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2001· 1 entry
Studied at Kyiv Natural Science Lyceum No. 145 (2001).
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1984· 2 entries
Born 1984-12-02.
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“For me, mathematics and strong emotions are incompatible. When the war started, at first I couldn't do anything at all. Now I have the sense that something must be done. I read the news about a professor from Uzhgorod University, who gives lectures by Zoom directly from the trenches.”
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