Teacher Eva Miranda, awarded with the Inaugural Agnes Szantó Medal
Apr 28, 2026
The Foundation of Computational Mathematics has announced that Professor Eva Miranda, a full professor in the Department of Mathematics at UPC, will receive the Inaugural Agnes Szantó Medal during the FoCM 2026 conference in Vienna, in recognition of her pioneering career in geometry and computational mathematics. The award ceremony will take place on July 13.
It has been announced that the 2026 Agnes Szantó Medal will be awarded to Professor Eva Miranda, Professor of Geometry and Topology in the Department of Mathematics at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC). The announcement has been officially made by the Foundation of Computational Mathematics (FoCM) in the context of the FoCM 2026 conference, which will be held in Vienna.
The Agnes Szantó Medal, established in 2023, honors the memory of Professor Agnes Szantó, a distinguished researcher in symbolic computation, professor at North Carolina State University, and a leading figure recognized for her scientific excellence, dedication to teaching, and commitment to the international mathematical community.
This award, to be granted approximately every three years, recognizes recipients who have made significant and innovative contributions in the field of computational mathematics, along with a sustained record of service and scientific leadership. The award to Professor Eva Miranda corresponds to the first edition of this distinction.
The selection of Eva Miranda as the first recipient of this medal highlights a scientific career of remarkable international impact, marked by pioneering contributions in symplectic and Poisson geometry, dynamical systems, celestial mechanics, fluid dynamics, and, more recently, in mathematical aspects of computation, establishing new connections between fundamental and applied areas of contemporary mathematics.
Professor Miranda has been awarded two consecutive ICREA Academia distinctions (2016 and 2021). She is a member of the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) and IMTech, director of the Laboratory of Geometry and Dynamical Systems at EPSEB, principal investigator of the GEOMVAP group (Geometry of Varieties and Applications), and co-director of the SYMCREA unit.
Among other international recognitions, she has received the François Deruyts Prize from the Royal Academy of Belgium, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and a Chaire d’Excellence from the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris.
The official medal award ceremony will take place on July 13, 2026, במסגרת the FoCM 2026 conference. The following day, July 14, Professor Miranda will deliver the inaugural Agnes Szantó Lecture, titled Found in Translation, which will address the value of communication, the transfer of ideas, and the building of bridges between disciplines and with society.
The Department of Mathematics expresses its satisfaction with this distinction, which recognizes the talent and scientific leadership of Professor Eva Miranda and also contributes to strengthening the international visibility of the Department and the UPC.
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