Hong Wang and Yu Deng Receive the Fields Medal After Their Ambrosetti Medal Recognition

Before the Fields Medal came the Ambrosetti Medal. Hong Wang and Yu Deng, who have just been awarded the Fields Medal—the world’s most prestigious distinction for mathematicians under the age of 40—had already been honoured at SISSA in the fall 2025 with the medal named after Antonio Ambrosetti, which is awarded to outstanding emerging researchers in the field of Nonlinear Analysis. The recipients of the Fields Medals were announced during the opening ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians, ICM 2026, in Philadelphia.