The Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics for the year 2026 is awarded to Ingrid Daubechies, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Duke University.

Ingrid Daubechies is awarded the ESI Medal 2026 for her fundamental and transformative contributions to mathematical information science. In addition to her groundbreaking work in the wavelet theory, she is honored for a novel way of detecting sparsity in data using  the iterative least squares algorithm,  for her seminal advances in the problem of phase retrieval, her proof of superiority of deep neural networks over standard approximation methods, and for creating image processing tools helping in art restoration projects..

For more details see: https://www.esi.ac.at/news/n79

The award ceremony will take place on October 30, 2026, at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna.

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There will also be the opportunity to follow the ceremony online: Streaming link (will follow)