A Fields Medal for EPFL Professor Maryna Viasovska

Maryna Viazovska - Photo EPFL / Fred Merz (Lundi13)

Geneva, 5th July 2022. Maryna Viazovska has received a Fields Medal, a prestigious honor often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, for her work on the sphere-packing problem in 8 and 24 dimensions. Previously, the problem had been solved for only three dimensions or fewer. Another Fields Medal is awarded to University of Geneva mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin.

Read the press release from the EPFL here.