The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences opens a call for nominations for the IMI Mathematics Prize for the year 2026 for excellent achievements in Mathematics. The candidates must be Bulgarian citizens and must not have completed 40 years of age before January 1st, 2026.

The IMI award is a metal statuette, accompanied by a diploma and a cash prize. Funds for the premium are raised through donations. Details about the Prize and the nomination procedure can be found in the Statute of the Prize.

The members of the IMI Prize Committee for 2026 are:

  1. Julian Revalski, Director of the International Center for Mathematical Sciences–Sofia at the  Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria – Chairman of the Prize Committee
  2. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, France
  3. Jaqueline Mesquita, University of Campinas, Brazil
  4. Nikolai Nikolov, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria
  5. Yuri Tschinkel, Courant Institute, USA, Foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The deadline for nominations is May 8th, 2026. Nominations should be sent via e-mail to the Chairman of the Prize Committee at revalski@math.bas.bg.

Nominations must include the following:

  • Name, date of birth and affiliation of the nominee;
  • A brief description of the nominee’s most significant contributions presented in language comprehensible to mathematicians from various fields;
  • List of most significant selected works (no more than 10).

For the first time, the Prize was awarded in 2014 to Martin Kassabov, a Professor at Cornell University, USA. In 2017, during the International Conference Mathematics Days in Sofia, the prestigious award was presented to Kiril Dachev, professor of mathematics at Purdue University, USA. The first woman recipient of the IMI Award is Greta Panova, associate professor at the University of Southern California, USA, who received the award in 2020. The 2023 IMI Prize was awarded to Vesselin Dimitrov, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and was presented to him on July 10, 2023, during the opening of the International Conference Mathematics Days in Sofia, personally by the President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev, under whose patronage the conference is being held.

The winner of the IMI Mathematics Prize for the year 2026 for excellent achievements in Mathematics will be announced and presented on July 6, 2026, at the official opening of the International Conference Mathematics Days in Sofia 2026.

More about the laureates read here.