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The Boris Dubrovin Medal

Boris Dubrovin The Boris Dubrovin medal, in memory of Boris Anatolievich Dubrovin, Professor at SISSA from 1993 to 2019, is awarded by SISSA, with the support of the Moscow Mathematical Society, the “Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica” (GNFM) and the “Gruppo Nazionale per le Strutture Algebriche, Geometriche e le loro Applicazioni” (GNSAGA), which are part of the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INDAM). Boris Dubrovin made several groundbreaking contributions to mathematical physics, with far-reaching influences in various areas of mathematics,  see e.g. the obituary. Possibly one of his best-known inventions is the definition of Frobenius manifolds (which we ought now to refer to as "Dubrovin-Frobenius manifolds"). Their formalization built a surprising bridge between mathematical physics and differential, algebraic and symplectic geometry. The medal recognizes exceptionally promising young researchers who have already made outstanding contributions to the fields of mathematical physics and geometry. The Dubrovin medal will be awarded every two years starting from 2020.

The statutes of the Boris Dubrovin medal can be found here.

2026 Edition

Winners of the edition 2026

Yang Li (University of Cambridge), for his impressive and creative contributions to the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds, in particular for constructing the first example of a new complete Calabi-Yau metric on $\mathbb{C}^3$ with maximal volume growth,  and for proving a weak version of the Strominger-Yau-Zaslow conjecture in many cases.

 
Elba Garcia-Failde (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Sorbonne Université), in recognition of her contributions to topological recursion, integrable hierarchies, and enumerative geometry. In particular, she has proven Norbury’s conjecture—the negative spin analogue of Witten’s conjecture—and established W-constraints for negative r-spin intersection numbers, while uncovering new tautological relations. Her work also includes solving an open problem in free probability and in the combinatorics of maps through a universal duality, as well as advancing the quantisation of spectral curves via topological recursion.
 
 

Selection Committee

Prof. Jinho Baik (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Prof.ssa Anna Fino (Università di Torino), Prof.ssa Tamara Grava (SISSA), Prof. Carlangelo Liverani (Università di Roma Tor Vergata & University of Maryland), Prof. Alexander Veselov (Loughborough University).
  

 

The sponsors of the 2026 Dubrovin medal are the Letters in Mathematical Physics and SISSA Medialab.             

               

 

Dubrovin medal 2026 call for nominations 

The Dubrovin medal recognizes exceptionally promising young researchers who have already made outstanding contributions to the fields of mathematical physics and geometry.  The recipient of the award will receive a monetary prize of 5,000 euros, made possible thanks to the contribution of SISSA-Medialab and Springer journal Letters in Mathematical Physics. In case of more than one recipient, the prize will be equally split among recipients.

Requirements: Ph.D. obtained since 2016 with 2 years extension for maternity leave for each child.
There are no nationality restrictions.

Nominations must be sent by the 31st of January 2026 to the address dubrovin_medal@sissa.it. 

Full details for submitting a nomination can be found here.

 

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