Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots. By Siobhan Roberts The words “optimal” and “optimize” derive from the ...

※ Editor's Note. At the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 1, 2018, the winners of the Fields Medal—the highest honor for a young ...

Alessio Figalli is a recipient of the Fields Medal for his research into optimal transport theory. Who is this individual? What characterises his research? In what way is mathematics a creative ...

In the company of Alessio Figalli, you get a sense that everything is taken care of. The young Italian mathematician is tall, fit and stylish, his R’s rolling off the tongue with an intoxicating Roman ...

video: Alessio Figalli, Professor of Mathematics at ETH Zurich, was awarded the Fields Medal today for his outstanding contribution to mathematical research. The medal is to mathematics what the Nobel ...

Rome, August 1 - Italy's Alessio Figalli has been awarded the Fields Medal, which is the world's top award for mathematics and is considered a sort of Nobel Prize for the discipline. "This prize gives ...

Former UT Austin professor Alessio Figalli, one of four 2018 Fields Medal winners announced today, works in an area of mathematical analysis known as optimal transport. The Fields Medal is sometimes ...

Italian Alessio Figalli was among four winners on Wednesday of the prestigious Fields prize, dubbed the Nobel for mathematics. Figalli celebrated alongside co-winners Caucher Birkar, Peter Scholze and ...

The 2018 Fields Medal has been awarded to Alessio Figalli, a CNRS researcher since 2007 currently seconded to ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). This distinction, the most prestigious ...

Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University professor Caucher Birkar and an Italian who once preferred football to math on Wednesday were among four winners of the prestigious Fields medal, dubbed the ...

Mikaela Iacobelli has been an associate professor at the Department since 2023 and conducts research in the area of mathematical physics with the aim of using mathematical methods to solve physical ...