Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (2021-2026)

Anna Skorobogatova who has been awarded a 2026 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her notable contributions in geometric measure theory, which uses techniques from analysis to tackle geometric problems such as finding surfaces of minimal area. In a series of papers with collaborators, she resolved a long-standing question about the structure of singularities of area-minimising surfaces, completing a programme that spanned over sixty years.

Mingjia Zhang won the 2026 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for contributions to the theory of Shimura varieties.

For developing classical analogs of quantum algorithms for machine learning and linear algebra, and for advances in quantum machine learning on quantum data.

For contributions in harmonic analysis and analytic number theory, including contributions to the problem of counting rational points near smooth manifolds.

For contributions to the theory of Shimura varieties.

For advances in Brill-Noether theory and the geometry of the moduli space of curves.

For advancing our understanding of random hyperbolic surfaces of large genus.

For contributions to mathematical physics, index theory.

For contributions to the resolution of several major conjectures on thresholds and selector processes.

For work on fibered ribbon knots and surfaces in 4-dimensional manifolds.

For advances in approximation results in classical combinatorial optimization problems, including the traveling salesman problem and network design.

For advances on the restriction conjecture, the local smoothing conjecture, and related problems.

For contributions to arithmetic combinatorics and analytic number theory, particularly with regards to polynomial patterns in dense sets.

For innovative and far-reaching work on the Loewner energy of planar curves.

For resolving the classic problem that the Conway knot is not smoothly slice.

For work in random geometry, particularly on Liouville Quantum Gravity as a scaling limit of random triangulations.

For work that addresses the fundamental question of verifying the output of a quantum computation.