In conversation with Fields Medalist Maryna Viazovska

Maryna Sergiivna Viazovska is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She is a full professor and Chair of Number Theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. She was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.

Maryna Viazovska, a mathematician at the EPFL in Switzerland, has won one of this year's Fields Medals at the International Congress of Mathematicians. The Fields Medal is one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics. It is awarded every four years "to recognise outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement". She is only the second woman to receive a Fields Medal, following on from Maryam Mirzakhani who won it in 2014.


Venue: London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4BS