2026Fields Medal

The Fields Medal is an international award in mathematics established at the request of Canadian mathematician John Charles Fields and first awarded in 1936. It is widely regarded as one of the highest honors in mathematics and is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics” due to the absence of a Nobel Prize in this field. The medal is awarded every four years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, organized by the International Mathematical Union, to two to four mathematicians under the age of 40 who have made outstanding contributions.

NO.	Award Recipient	Citation	Source Link	Institution
1	Yu Deng	For his work in partial differential equations, including the rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation from hard-sphere dynamics for rarefied gases, the derivation of wave kinetic equations from nonlinear dispersive systems, and probabilistic approaches to nonlinear Schrodinger dynamics.	https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026	The University of Chicago
2	John Pardon	For his achievements in symplectic geometry including new approaches to virtual fundamental cycles, Fukaya categories of certain manifolds and counting holomorphic curves, and for his contributions to other areas of geometry and topology, including group actions on 3-manifolds and knot theory.	https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026	Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
3	Jacob Tsimerman	For his contribution in the recasting of o-minimality as a fundamental method of arithmetic and complex algebraic geometry, and his role in the proof of many central conjectures including Griffiths' conjecture on the algebraicity of images of the period maps, and the Andre-Oort conjecture for Siegel modular varieties.	https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026	University of Toronto
4	Hong Wang	For her work in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory, including applications of multiscale and decoupling techniques to the local smoothing conjecture for the planar wave equation, and major advances in Fourier restriction, Falconer distance sets, Furstenberg sets in the plane, and the Kakeya problem in three dimensions.	https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026	Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

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Award Recipient

Citation

Source Link

Institution

Yu Deng

For his work in partial differential equations, including the rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation from hard-sphere dynamics for rarefied gases, the derivation of wave kinetic equations from nonlinear dispersive systems, and probabilistic approaches to nonlinear Schrodinger dynamics.

https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026

The University of Chicago

John Pardon

For his achievements in symplectic geometry including new approaches to virtual fundamental cycles, Fukaya categories of certain manifolds and counting holomorphic curves, and for his contributions to other areas of geometry and topology, including group actions on 3-manifolds and knot theory.

https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026

Simons Center for Geometry and Physics

Jacob Tsimerman

For his contribution in the recasting of o-minimality as a fundamental method of arithmetic and complex algebraic geometry, and his role in the proof of many central conjectures including Griffiths' conjecture on the algebraicity of images of the period maps, and the Andre-Oort conjecture for Siegel modular varieties.

https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026

University of Toronto

Hong Wang

For her work in harmonic analysis and geometric measure theory, including applications of multiscale and decoupling techniques to the local smoothing conjecture for the planar wave equation, and major advances in Fourier restriction, Falconer distance sets, Furstenberg sets in the plane, and the Kakeya problem in three dimensions.

https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026

Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques