Professor Andrea D'Agnolo receives 2024 Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics

20.06.2024

The International Congress of Basic Sciences (ICBS) recently selected a joint paper by the professor of the University of Padua Andrea D'Agnolo for the 2024 Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics. The paper, entitled "Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for holonomic D-modules", was a collaboration with professor Masaki Kashiwara (Kyoto University).

The Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, in the regular case, stems from& the 21st problem of the famous list that David Hilbert presented in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris. In its modern incarnation, it establishes a bridge between partial differential equations (regular holonomic D-modules) and topology monodromy of their solutions). Dropping the regularity condition has been an open problem for more than 30 years, finally solved in the award-winning paper.

The Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics (FSA) was inaugurated in 2023 with support from the International Congress of Basic Sciences (ICBS), and is sponsored by the City of Beijing and the Yanqi Lake& Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications. An FSA is awarded to a recent paper of outstanding scholarly value, recognized for a major breakthrough in its field. For the 2024 selection, scientific works in both pure and applied research are chosen in 44 areas of the three basic science fields (mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer and information sciences). 

FSA recipients are invited to the ICBS to accept the award in person in July 2024, at the Great Hall of People in Beijing. Over 1000 participants, including some 400 distinguished scholars, 5 Fields Medalists and 3 Turing Medal winners, 1 Nobel laureate, and numerous academicians from China, the United States, and European nations are expected to attend.