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Semyon Dyatlov has been awarded another major prize, this time the 2026 AMS Bôcher Memorial Prize (along with Mihalis Dafermos and Jonathan Luk). The Bôcher prize was established more than 100 years ago, and is given every 3 years for outstanding work in analysis. Dyatlov is being recognized for his pioneering work connecting the dynamics of geodesic flows and the behavior of waves (including Laplace eigenfunctions and solutions to the wave equation); this work is developed in a series of 4 papers (co-authored with subsets of Joshua Zahl, Jean Bourgain and Long Jin).

Previous Bôcher prize recipients include several MIT analysts over the last century: Larry Guth (2020), Richard Melrose (1984), Is Singer (1969), Norman Levinson (1953), and Norbert Wiener (1933).

Read more at the American Mathematical Society.

Congratulations, Semyon!

The 2026 Joseph L. Doob Prize will be awarded to Semyon Dyatlov and Maciej Zworski (UC Berkeley) for their 2019 AMS book, Mathematical Theory of Scattering Resonances. The book has "established itself as the key text on contemporary spectral and scattering theory, magisterially unifying decades of advances into a cohesive, rigorous framework”.

Read more about the award at the American Mathematical Society.

Congratulations, Semyon!

Wei Zhang, alongside his team members from AIM SQuaRE "geometry of Shimura varieties and arithmetic application to L-functions" are recipients of the 2025 Alexanderson Award by the American Institute of Mathematics. The team is recognized for two papers, published in Annals in 2021 and Inventiones in 2022. The award will be given at the Joint Mathematics Meetings Awards Celebration in January 2026.

Read more about their work and the award at the American Institute of Mathematics.

Congratulations, Wei!

Edgar Costa has been awarded the 2025 MIT Prize for Open Data from the MIT School of Science and MIT Libraries for his involvement in LMFDB, the L-Functions and modular forms database. The prize is selected from nominees representing 30 different departments, labs, centers and institutes across MIT.

Read more at MIT Libraries.

Congratulations, Edgar!