Gaul lectures

Gaul lecture 2026

The Gaul Lecture Award is presented annually to an outstanding international researcher
Gaul lecturer at blackboard in MFOGudrun Thäter

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 this year’s Gaul Lecture Award is
Prof. Dr. Maryna Viazovska
Chair of Number Theory
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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)
on 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.