{"id":12960,"date":"2022-07-03T15:08:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T19:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:54:22","slug":"icm-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=12960","title":{"rendered":"ICM 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2022 ICM is starting soon, in a virtual version<\/a> organized after the cancellation of the original version supposed to be hosted in St. Petersburg (for how that happened, see here<\/a>). The IMU General Assembly is now going on, moved from St. Petersburg to Helsinki. One decision already made there<\/a> was that the 2026 ICM will be hosted by the US in Philadelphia. With the 2022 experience in mind, hopefully the IMU will for next time have prepared a plan for what to do in case they again end up having a host country with a collapsed democracy being run by a dangerous autocrat.<\/p>\n

Registration for following the talks in real time has now been closed, but the talks are being recorded and will appear on the IMU Youtube channel. The program is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There will be quite a few other virtual events affiliated in some way with the main ICM, for a list see here<\/a>. Some of these are traditional satellite conference which have been moved from their originally scheduled version in Russia. An example is this one organized by Igor Krichever<\/a>, which was supposed to be held at Skoltech in Moscow, but was moved online and hosted by Columbia.<\/p>\n

The Fields Medals will be announced at 10am local time in Helsinki on July 5, there will be a livestream here<\/a>. This will be 3am here in New York, so I’ll likely be sleeping and find out what happened later in the morning. Since I just got back from vacation and it’s now a holiday weekend, I’ve been out of touch with my usual sources of math gossip and haven’t heard any informed rumors about who the medalists will be. One person who has been mentioned as a possibility is the Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska. <\/p>\n

The last couple times (2014 and 2018) the IMU has put out the news about the Fields Medals to some of the press under unusual embargo terms that made reporting difficult for everyone except Quanta magazine which was given special access (for more about this see here<\/a>). I haven’t heard anything about whether the same thing is happening this year. <\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: just noticed this<\/a>, indicating that again press access may be Quanta-only.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Antoine Chambert-Loir claims “serious information”<\/a> that Viazovska will get the Fields Medal (at least that’s who he seems to be referring to). It looks like press access is going to more organizations than Quanta this time, see this from Nature<\/a>. Terry Tao has a blog post with some more ICM information<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: The medalists are Duminil-Copin, Huh, Maynard and Viazovska, much the list of names that people have been speculating about. There’s much about the winners and their work at the IMU site<\/a>, and several other press organizations have extensive coverage, including Quanta<\/a>, Plus Magazine!<\/a> and the New York Times<\/a>. Stories about each of the Laureates from Plus Magazine! are featured on the IMU site.<\/p>\n

The medalists were chosen quite a few months ago, before the Ukraine war. The interview with Viazovska<\/a> contains part conducted before the war, as well as a more recent part about Russians and the war (the interviewers were Okounkov and Konyaev).<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Barry Mazur was awarded this year’s Chern Medal<\/a>. During the ICM a new documentary about Mazur will be available for watching, Barry Mazur and The Infinite Cheese of Knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> I enthusiastically recommend that you take a look at Andrei Okounkov’s remarkable set of popular articles about the work of the four Fields medalists, see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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