The Fields Medal Symposium is an annual event that honours one of the Fields Medal recipients from the most recent International Congress of Mathematicians. The symposium is jointly endorsed by the International Mathematical Union and the Fields Institute for Mathematical Sciences. The idea was conceived in preparation for the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM2010) in Hyberdad, India. Professor Edward Bierstone of the University of Toronto was the director of the institute during the inaugural symposium in October 2012. All symposiums take place at the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada. The symposia include mathematical activity that explore work related to the honoured Fields Medallist. They will include public lectures meant to spark interest in mathematics including public lectures and events for students.
| Year of Symposium | Organizers | Fields Medalist | Symposium Speakers | Medallists' Distinguished Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 (Inaugural) | Relation of Hitchin fibrations to the Arthur–Selberg trace formula: Proof of the Fundamental Lemma for Lie algebras[1] | |||
| 2013 | Peter Sarnak (Chair)
Dimitry Jakobson | Elon Lindenstrauss | Nalini Anantharaman
Shimon Brooks Shahar Mozes Masaki Tsukamaoto | 2010 Fields Medal for his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory |
| 2014 | Alessio FigalliRobert McCann | Cédric Villani | Roger-Dominique BakryLuis Caffarelli Eric Carlen Wilfrid Gangbo Yan Guo Monika Ludwig Nader Masmoudi | 2010 Fields Medal for his proofs of nonlinear Landau damping and convergence to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation. |
| 2015 | Ilia BinderJohn Cardy | Stanislav Smirnov | Michael AizenmanDmitri Belyaev
Dmitry Chelkak Jacek Graczyk Clément Hongler Rick Kenyon Bernard Nienhuis Dimitry Panchenko Steffen Rohde Béatrice de Tilière | 2010 Fields Medal for the proof of conformal invariance of percolation and the planar Ising model in statistical physics. |
| 2016 | Ingrid DaubechiesJohn Friedlander Florian Herzig | Manjul Bhargava | Eknath GhateBenedict Gross
Wei Ho Ila Varma Xiaoheng Wang | 2014 Fields Medal for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves |
| 2017 | 2014 Fields Medal for outstanding contributions to the theory of stochastic partial differential equations, and in particular for the creation of a theory of regularity structures for such equations. | |||
| 2018 | Fanny KasselAmir Mohammadi Yulan Qing Kasra Rafi | Maryam Mirzakhani | Alex Wright Anna Wienhard Peter Sarnak Simion Filip Howard Masur Hee Oh Scott Wolpert Kathryn Mann Francis Bonahon Juan Souto Alex Eskin Steve Kerckhoff Anton Zorich Ursula Hamenstädt Elon Lindenstrauss Yair Minsky Amie Wilkinson (Public Opening Lecturer) | 2014 Fields Medal for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces. |
| 2019 | Giovanni Forni Svetlana Jitomirskaya Konstantin Khanin Michael Yampolsky | Artur Avila | Misha Lyubich Raphaël Krikorian Giovanni Forni Giulio Tiozzo Daniel Smania Zhiyuan Zhang Svetlana Jitomirskaya Dmitry Dolgopyat Sylvain Crovisier Alex Eskin Ursula Hamenstädt Xavier Buff David Damanik | 2014 Fields Medal for his profound contributions to dynamical systems theory, which have changed the face of the field, using the powerful idea of renormalization as a unifying principle. |
| 2020 | Almut Burchard Jacopo De Simoi Francesco Maggi | Luigi AmbrosioMatteo Bonforte Yann Brenier Xavier Cabré Wilfrid Gangbo Young-Heon Kim Connor Mooney Joaquim Serra Enrico Valdinoci | ||
| 2021 | Matthew Satriano Ila Varma | |||