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Carlo Pagano, member of the CRM, receives the 2025 MCA Prize

MCA Prize

Five prizes are awarded to mathematicians who are no more than 12 years past their PhD at the date of the Congress. Eligibility for consideration of nominees requires that they either received their graduate education or that they currently hold a position in one or more countries in the Americas. The winners are invited to give a lecture on their work at the Congress.

The 2025 MCA Prize was presented to Professor Carlo Pagano of Concordia University last week, at the Mathematical Congress of the Americas in Miami, by Professor Jacques Hurtubise of McGill University, a member of the Executive Committee of the Mathematical Council of the Americas, with the following words:

“It is a particular pleasure for me to present the next MCA prizewinner, Carlo Pagano, of Concordia University, in Montreal. After an undergraduate degree in Italy, Carlo did his graduate degree in Leiden, finishing in 2018, and after a period as a post-doctoral fellow, moved to Concordia in 2022. Carlo’s specialty is algebraic number theory; but his real specialty lies in establishing some very difficult long-standing conjectures. A notable example was the proof of a conjecture on the density of the coefficients for which the negative Pell equation has solutions (58%); another, more recent case is the extension to more general rings of integers of the undecidability proof for Diophantine equations; that is Hilbert’s tenth problem. The latter proof provides yet one more example of the properties of elliptic curves popping up in surprising places. We will no doubt see many more surprises of this and of other types from Carlo in the future.”

Congratulations also to Professor Javier Gómez-Serrano (Brown University), Aisenstadt Chair 2024, and the other 2025 MCA prize winners.

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