Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Richard A. Duke Assistant Professor Alexander Dunn and Assistant Professor Harold Blum have each been independently recognized by the International Congress of Basic Science and have won a 2026 Frontiers of Science Award for their work. 

Alexander Dunn and his collaborator Maksym Radziwiłł were recognized for their work in Analytic Number Theory for their paper "Bias in cubic Gauss sums: Patterson's conjecture", which appeared in Annals of Mathematics (2024), widely considered one of the top mathematics journals in the world. 

Harold Blum, together with his collaborators Jaron Alper, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, and Chenyang Xu, were recognized for their work in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry for their paper "Reductivity of the automorphism group of K-polystable Fano varieties", which appeared in Inventiones mathematicae (2020), another journal in a very short list of the topmost mathematical journals in the world.

The award was inaugurated in 2023, and it honors papers from the last 10 years that represent major breakthroughs in their respective fields. The award comes with an invitation to the International Congress of Basic Science in Beijing in August 2026.