Abel Prize

What more can you ask, now?!

Thank you, Timandra Harkness for being brilliantly clever with us and for us. Thanks for communicating mathematics and thanks for a great interview yesterday, just after the Abel Prize award ceremony. And thanks to Gerd Faltings for being a sport in the middle of it all.

Gerd Faltings has been interviewed a lot so far and there is still more to come as the science journalists are queuing up to get mere minutes with the Abel Prize Laureate 2026. Where ever Gerd Faltings go, the podcasters, writers and youtubers follow.

Science depends on brilliance. But science also depends on translation, on people who can take difficult ideas from the blackboards and place them into a shared public conversation.

The Academy works closely with The World Federation of Science Journalists and contribute to travel grants for The Abel Prize Week. In return, independent journalist gives us their views and stories.

Scholars might find journalists, podcasters and YouTubers intimidating. The best science journalism is, however, curious, demanding, and occasionally uncomfortable.

In a time when misinformation travels faster than peer review, science journalists help create something extraordinarily valuable: public trust as well as critical thinking.

Most people discover science not through scientific journals but through a newspaper article read over breakfast or a radio segment in the car.

So thank to all our science journalists here today for our thoughtful work that suddenly makes a difficult idea understandable.

Photographers:
Eirik Furu Baardsen / DNVA
Unni Irmelin Kvam / DNVA
Derek Stothers / Liwlig AS
Ilja C. Hendel / The Abel Prize

Hausdorff Center for Mathematics
Liwlig Norway

Gerd Faltings giving his Abel Prize Lecture today. (Photo: Ilja C. Hendel / The Abel Prize)

The Abel Prize Award Ceremony: Gerd Faltings (Abel Prize laureate 2026) and H.R.H. Corwn Prince Haakon.

Photo: Thomas Brun / NTB Kommunikasjon / The Abel Prize

Have fun at the Abel Prize Lectures at Blindern Campus today! Find your way to Georg Sverdrups hus and join!

10:15 Lecture by Abel Prize laureate Gerd Faltings, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn: From Abel to Mordell

11:15 Lecture by Professor Ana Caraiani - Imperial College London:
Diophantine equations, the Mordell conjecture, and how Faltings reshaped arithmetic

12:15 Lunch break

13:00 Lecture by Professor Wiesława Krystyna Nizioł, CNRS – French National Centre for Scientific Research: Hodge Theory of p-adic varieties: Faltings' legacy

14:00 Lecture by Professor Minhyong Kim - International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh: Arithmetic Geometry and Computation

15:00 Closing remarks by Ingrid Glad, Chair of the Abel Board



Photo: Thomas B. Echoff
Photo: Trond Chr. Løkke / DNVA

The videos will be published on our YouTube channel later on.

The official Abel Prize Banquett at Akershus Medival Castle this evening.

(Photos: Fredrik Varfjell / The Abel Prize)

H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon awarded The 2026 Abel Prize to the German mathematician Gerd Faltings today.

Photo by Thomas Brun / NTB Kommunikasjon / The Abel Prize