On 30 August 2022 I gave a talk about recent Fields medallist Prof Maryna Viazovska and some of her mathematical work. This was a Monash LunchMaths seminar.
Title: “There is always room for a new theory in mathematics”: Maryna Viazovska and her mathematics
Abstract: In July of this year, Maryna Viazovska became the second woman and second Ukrainian to be awarded a Fields medal. Among other amazing achievements, she gave a wonderful proof of the most efficient way to pack spheres in 8 dimensions, bringing together ideas from all over mathematics. In this talk I’ll give a brief biography of Prof Viazovska and attempt to explain some of her mathematics.
The slides from my talk are available here (15mb pptx and 5mb pdf).
“There is always room for a new theory in mathematics”: Maryna Viazovska and her mathematics