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Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine
About Maryna Viazovska
- Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska (Ukrainian: ?????? ????????? ?'????????; born 1984) is a Ukrainian mathematician who, in 2016, solved the sphere-packing problem in dimension 8 and, in collaboration with others, in dimension 24.
- Previously, the problem had been solved only for three or fewer dimensions, and the proof of the three-dimensional version (the Kepler conjecture) involved long computer calculations.
- In contrast, Viazovska's proof for 8 and 24 dimensions is "stunningly simple".As a student at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Viazovska competed at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, and was one of the first-place winners in 2002 and 2005. Viazovska earned a candidate degree from the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2010, a master's from the University of Kaiserslautern, and a doctorate (Dr.
- rer.
- nat.) from the University of Bonn in 2013.
- Her doctoral dissertation, Modular Functions and Special Cycles, concerns analytic number theory and was supervised by Don Zagier and Werner Müller.
- She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Mathematical School and the Humboldt University of Berlin and a Minerva Distinguished Visitor at Princeton University.
- Since January 2018 she is full professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland after a short stint as tenure-track assistant professor. As well as for her work on sphere packing, Viazovska is also known for her research on spherical designs with Bondarenko and Radchenko.
- With them she proved a conjecture of Korevaar and Meyers on the existence of small designs in arbitrary dimensions.
- This result was one of the contributions for which her co-author Andriy Bondarenko won the Vasil A.
- Popov Prize for approximation theory in 2013.
- In 2016, she 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.
- In December 2017, she was awarded a 2018 New Horizons Prize in Mathematics. She was an invited speaker at the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians.
- For 2019 she was awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics and the Fermat Prize.
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