The Ladyzhenskaya medal, dedicated to Olga Ladyzhenskaya, will be awarded for the first time at the International Congress of Mathematicians in St. Petersburg

At the International Congress of Mathematicians, which will be held in 2022 in St. Petersburg (ICM2022), the Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya medal will be awarded for the first time. The medal was established by the National Committee of Mathematicians of Russia jointly with St. Petersburg State University and the ICM2022 Organizing Committee. It will be awarded at the event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Ladyzhenskaya. There is exactly one month left until the deadline for accepting applications for the high award. The award will be presented every four years to outstanding mathematicians and physicists for the breakthrough results of their work. In addition to the medal, the winner will receive a financial reward of one million rubles. If the work is carried out by a team of scientists, the prize committee may consider giving a joint award. The deadline for nominations is December 1, 2021.“I find it absolutely remarkable that this new award turns the spotlight on such an important part of mathematics as mathematical physics and also on such an outstanding representative of mathematical physics as Olga Aleksandrovna. I urge all colleagues, in mathematics and theoretical physics alike, to take an active part in the nominations for this new award,” said Andrey Okounkov, Co-Chair of the Local Organizing Committee ICM2022.

Nominations should be sent to the Chairman of the 2022 Prize Committee, Professor Giovanni Felder, at [email protected]. Each nomination should contain a detailed description of the candidate’s work and its place in the overall development of the field, including links. The complete regulations for filing applications can be found here.Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was an outstanding Soviet and Russian mathematician. Her work shaped the modern theory of partial differential equations in mathematical physics. During her life Olga Ladyzhenskaya became the author of more than 250 works, now they are actively cited by mathematicians around the world. The mathematician was born in 1922 in the Kostroma region in the family of a school mathematics teacher, a former officer. In 1937, her father was repressed and executed. As the daughter of a repressed person, Olga Ladyzhenskaya was not admitted to the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad University (LSU). Nevertheless, she managed to enter the Pedagogical Institute and complete two courses before the start of the World War II.In 1943, Olga Ladyzhenskaya entered the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, and then completed her postgraduate studies at Leningrad State University. In 1950 she worked at the physics department of the same university, and four years later she received her doctorate and began working at the Leningrad branch of the V.A. Steklov institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (PDMI RAS).Until the end of her life, Ladyzhenskaya worked as a professor at Leningrad State University, and was also led the laboratory of mathematical physics at the PDMI RAS. She became a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the Department of Mathematics, and then an academician. For eight years, from 1990 to 1998, she was President of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society.Olga Ladyzhenskaya’s works hold a special place in the history of mathematics and mathematical physics in St. Petersburg, Russia and around the world. Through her lectures and seminars, she inspired many scientists to advance in other areas of mathematical physics, including quantum field theory and statistical physics.

Note The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) will be held on July 6-14, 2022 in St. Petersburg (Russia) by the decision of the International Mathematical Union. It is included in the national project “Science and Universities”. Holding the Congress in Russia is intended to enhance the integration of international mathematical centers into the world scientific community, to help attract new Russian and foreign partners to cooperation. This is the most significant meeting in the field of fundamental and applied mathematics around the world and one of the oldest scientific congresses. The first ICM was held in 1897 in Zurich (Switzerland). The aim of ICM is to present the widest possible spectrum of modern mathematics, including all scientific directions and mathematical schools from different geographic regions, and, thus, to determine the future directions of the development of mathematics. Guest speakers at ICM are mathematicians of the highest level, capable of presenting current research trends to a wide audience. The ICM program includes a very wide range of activities, including plenary and invited lectures, panel discussions, public lectures, educational events for a wide audience, short messages, poster presentations and more.ICM website – https://icm2022.org