Gaul lecture 2026

Their exceptional contributions should have had a profound impact on the field of research in mathematics, economics, or computer science. As part of a research visit at KIT, the award recipient delivers the Gaul Lecture, a public lecture aimed at a broader audience, as well as a research seminar tailored to an academic audience.

The Gaul Lecture is funded by the Helga und Wolfgang Gaul Foundation.

The recipient of the Gaul Lecture Award 2026 is Prof. Dr. Maryna Viazovska (Chair of Number Theory École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). She has been awarded the Fields Medal in 2022 any many other awards already.

The public Gaul Lecture will take place on December 1, 2026, at 12:30 p.m. in NTI Lecture Hall (KIT Campus South, Building 30.10) on the subject of
 

„Long summer 2026 in Mathematics“

Abstract: This lecture is about the AI advances that have happened in Mathematics during the previous several months and possible future directions of the field.

The research seminar will take place on November 30, 2026, at 16:00 p.m. in seminar room 1.067 (KIT Campus South, Building 20.30) in the subject of

“Sphere packings, cyclotomic fields, and subconvexity bounds“

Abstract: In this lecture I will talk about lattice packings constructed from number fields.I will present recent joint work with Nihar Gargava, Vlad Serban and Ilaria Viglino. We analyse the number of short vectors in the ideal and modular lattices.