New lecture series in honour of Alice Roth
On 16 March, the Alice Roth Lectures took place for the first time. With this newly launched series, the Department of Mathematics honours women with outstanding achievements in mathematics.
The honour of being the very first speaker to launch the new Alice Roth Lectures went to Maryna Viazovska. She is a full professor of mathematics at the Chair of Number Theory at EPFL. external page Maryna Viazovska completed her Bachelor's degree at the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University and graduated with a Master's degree at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern. In 2013 she obtained her doctoral degree in Bonn followed by postdoctoral positions at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2017, Maryna was Distinguished Visitor at Princeton University. She joined EPFL as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2017 and was appointed full professor in 2018. In autumn 2020, she received the Latsis prize for her solution to a centuries-old problem about the optimal arrangement of spheres in a defined space.
Maryna Viazovska gave a talk entitled "Fourier interpolation pairs and their applications". Abstract
About the Alice Roth lecture series
This annual lecture series was established in honour of Alice Roth (1905–1977), the first woman to obtain a doctorate with a thesis in mathematics at ETH Zürich in 1938. Alice Roth’s thesis was awarded an ETH Silver Medal, and it was the first thesis by a woman in the whole of ETH to obtain this distinction.
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