SwissMAP Innovator Prize 2022

19 Jul 2022

Congratulations to our members Barbara Dembin (ETH Zurich, V. Tassion’s Group) and Tomas Reis (UNIGE, M. Mariño’s Group) who have been awarded the SwissMAP Innovator Prize 2022!

The SwissMAP Innovator Prize is awarded once a year to PhD students or Postdocs for important scientific achievements in the NCCR SwissMAP research areas.

Barbara Dembin (ETH Zurich, V. Tassion’s Group) is awarded the SwissMAP Postdoc Innovator Prize for her outstanding contributions to first-passage percolation and related models.

Tomas Reis (UNIGE, M. Mariño’s Group) is awarded the PhD SwissMAP Innovator Prize 2022 for his work on the mathematical structure of perturbative series and of non-perturbative effects in quantum field theory and condensed matter physics. By combing Ecalle’s theory of resurgence with quantum integrability, Tomas obtained for the first time analytic results on non-perturbative effects in two-dimensional asymptotically free theories, providing counterexamples to fifty-year old conjectures by ’t Hooft and Parisi. In addition, he developed a framework to obtain explicit perturbative series in the Lieb-Liniger and Gaudin-Yang models, a problem which was open since the 1960s.

The award ceremony will take place during the SwissMAP Annual General Meeting in Les Diablerets, September 11-14, 2022.

Phase I & II research project(s)

2022 George Pólya Prize in Mathematics

Fields Medal for two SwissMAP members: Hugo Duminil-Copin & Maryna Viazovska