Prizes

Emmy Noether Prize

The prize Emmy Noether (1882-1935), established in 2016, is awarded to the best Final Degree Projects (TFG) of the three mathematics degrees taught in the principality, with the aim of encouraging the production of high-quality works.

The works must be original. If written in a language other than Catalan, they must include at the beginning: the title in Catalan and an extensive summary in Catalan, approximately three pages (2,800 characters with spaces per page).

The prize amount is €800, and the mention is €400. If the jury awards more than one prize or mention ex aequo, the total amount distributed will be a maximum of €1,600, and the endowment per prize will be double that per mention. The prize endowment is covered by the Mir-Puig Private Foundation. The jury will be appointed by the Catalan Society of Mathematics.

The winners commit to publishing a summary of the winning work in the electronic journal Reports@SCM. They will be named guest members of the SCM for the current year.

 

Current call

11th call for the Emmy Noether Prize, 2027

For Final Degree Projects of the three mathematics degrees taught in Catalonia (Autonomous University of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Polytechnic University of Catalonia), defended between January 1 and October 31, 2025.

For more information, contact Dolors Herbera,  coordinator of the prize, via email scm.premi.noether@correu.iec.cat.

Online submission via IEC awards.

  • Academic transcript
  • Copy of ID card
  • Work in PDF (including title and summary in Catalan)

The tutor must send a report on the work via scm.premi.noether@correu.iec.cat

Deadline: November 27, 2026, at 1:00 PM.

Prize history

Table of contents
2026 Edition

2026 Edition

Emmy Noether Prize 2026

  • Marina Fernàndez i Vilaseca, for her work Stochastic determination of the size of some exceptional sets in analysis, supervised by Juan Jesús Donaire Benito.
Ex aequo mentions
  • Martina Cormand i Bayes, for the work The parametrization method for quasiperiodic invariant circles, supervised by Alex Haro Provinciale.
  • Kamil Przybyszewski Albarracín, for the work Bernstein-Sato ideals, supervised by Lei Wu and Josep Àlvarez Montaner (co-supervisor).
Jury members
  • Joaquim Ortega Cerdà
  • Joan Claramunt Carós
  • Elba Garcia Failde
  • Joachim Kock
  • Leticia Pardo Simón
  • Jordi Villadelprat Yagüe
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2025 Edition

2025 Edition

Emmy Noether Prize 2025

  • Gerard Castro López, for her work Existence of uniformly rotating “vortex patches” of the Euler equation in 2D non-convex, supervised by Javier Gómez Serrano (Brown University).
Ex aequo mentions
  • Oriol Baeza Guasch, for his work The monodromy conjecture for non-degenerate Newton hypersurfaces, directed by Guillem Blanco Fernández (KU Leuven) and Josep Àlvarez Montaner (FME, UPC).
  • Miguel Nasarre Budiño, for the work Application of Fourier series on S^2 to approximate star-shaped surfaces, directed by David Marín (UAB).
Jury members
  • Lluís Alsedà i Soler (UAB)
  • Inmaculada Baldoma Barraca (UPC)
  • Rosa M. Miró Roig (UB)
  • Roberto Rubio Nuñez (UAB)
  • Odí Soler i Gibert (UPC)
  • Núria Vila Oliva (UB)
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Edition 2024

Edition 2024

Emmy Noether Prize 2024

  • Alejandro Galván Pérez-Ilzarbe, for her work Properties of triangular partitions and their generalizations, directed by Sergi Elizalde Torrent (Dartmouth College) and Marc Noy Serrano (UPC).
  • Unai Lejarza Alonso, for the work Optimal isosystolic inequalities on real projective planes, directed by Florent Balacheff (UAB).
Ex aequo mentions
  • Salim Boukfal Lazaar, for his work An introduction to stochastic calculus from the random walk perspective, directed by Xavier Bardina Simorra (UAB).
  • Pedro López Sancha, for the work Bernstein-Sato theory for determinantal ideals in positive characteristic, directed by Eamon Quinlan-Gallego (University of Utah) and Josep Àlvarez Montaner (UPC).
Jury members
  • Martín Sombra, president (ICREA-UB)
  • Debora Gil (UAB)
  • Pere Pascual Gainza (UPC)
  • Laura Prat Baiget (UAB)
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2023 Edition

2023 Edition

Emmy Noether Prize 2023

  • Jordi Vilà i Casadevall, for his work The Golod-Shafarevich inequality and the class field tower problem, directed by Henri Darmon (McGill University) and Victor Rotger (UPC).
Ex aequo mentions
  • Bernat Rovira i Segú, for his work Outer planar partial cubes, directed by Kolja Knauer (UB).
  • Lluïsa Puig i Moner, for the work On the relationship between singularity exponents and finite-time Lyapunov exponents in ocean remote sensing images, directed by Estrella Olmedo (ICM-CSIC) and Antonio Turiel (ICM-CSIC), supervised by Alvaro Corral (CRM).
Jury members
  • Dolors Herbera Espinalt, president (UAB)
  • Llorenç Badiella Busquets (UAB)
  • Núria Fagella Rabionet (UB)
  • Sònia Fernández Méndez (UPC)
  • Albert Mas Blesa (UPC)
  • Ignasi Mundet i Riera (UB)
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Edition 2022

Edition 2022

Emmy Noether Prize 2022

  • Àlex Rodríguez Reverter, for his work Iteration of transcendental functions, directed by Núria Fagella Rabionet (UB).
Ex aequo mentions
  • Jordi Castellví, for his work Bijective enumeration of constellations in higher genus, directed by Marie Albenque (École Polytechnique), Éric Fusy (CNRS) and Juanjo Rué (UPC).
  • Martí Oller Rúbies, for the work Bhargava's cube and elliptic curves, directed by Jordi Guàrdia Rúbies (UPC) and Santiago Molina Blanco (UPC).
Jury members
  • Joan Carles Naranjo, president (UB)
  • Montse Alsina (UPC)
  • Albert Clop (UB)
  • Regina Martínez (UAB)
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2021 Edition

2021 Edition

Emmy Noether Prize 2021

  • Gonzalo Cao Labora, for his work Self-similar profiles in fluid analysis. A one-dimensional model and the compressible Euler equations, directed by Javier Gómez-Serrano (Princeton U.) and Juan Carlos Felipe Navarro (UPC).
Ex aequo mentions
  • Enric Florit Zacarías, for his work Isogeny-based cryptography, directed by Xavier Guitart (UB), Santiago Seguí (UB) and Ramsès Fernàndez (UB).
  • Laia Weisz Font, for the work Zygmund measures, directed by Juan J. Donaire Benito (UAB).
Jury members
  • Núria Vila, president (UB)
  • Maria Alberich (UPC)
  • Xavier Bardina (UAB)
  • Sílvia Cuadrado (UAB)
  • Jordi Marzo (UB)
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2020 Edition

2020 Edition

Emmy Noether Prize 2020

  • Gerard Orriols Giménez, for his work A negative result on hearing the shape of a triangle, directed by Javier Gómez-Serrano and Xavier Cabré.
Ex aequo mentions
  • Bartomeu Llopis Vidal, for his work Scheme of pairs of matrices with zero commutator, directed by Josep Àlvarez Montaner and Nero Budur.
  • Martí Roset, for the work Elliptic curves with CM and the Coates–Wiles theorem, directed by Francesc Fité and Victor Rotger.
Jury members
  • Tere Martínez-Seara, president (UPC)
  • Maria Jolis, secretary (UAB)
  • Pere Pascual (UPC)
  • Joaquim Ortega (UB)
  • Xevi Guitart (UB)
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2019 Edition

2019 Edition

Emmy Noether Prize 2019

  • Abel Hernández Ruiz, for his work Renormalization in complex dynamics, directed by Núria Fagella (UB).
  • Eduard Vilalta Vila, for the work K-theory for C*-algebras: the cyclic six-term exact sequence, directed by Francesc Perera (UAB).
Ex aequo mention
  • Sergi Burniol, for his work Calculation of the Selmer group in families of elliptic curves, directed by Marc Masdeu (UAB).
Jury members
  • Rosa Camps, president (UAB)
  • Carlos D'Andrea (UB)
  • Mercè Ollé (UPC)
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2018 Edition

2018 Edition

Emmy Noether Prize 2018

  • Jaume de Dios, for his work Oscillatory integrals and the Kakeya conjecture, directed by John B. Garnett (UCLA) and Joan Verdera (UAB).
Ex aequo mention
  • Martí Salat Moltó, for his work Lefschetz properties in algebra and geometry, directed by Rosa Maria Miró-Roig (UB).
Jury members
  • Pilar Bayer, president (UB)
  • Carles Broto (UAB)
  • Marta Casanellas (UPC)
  • Carme Cascantante (UB)
  • Pere Puig (UAB)
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2017 Edition

2017 Edition

Emmy Noether Prize 2017

  • Aitor Nicolàs Azemar Carnicero, for his work Hausdorff dimension of fractional Brownian motion, directed by Frederic Utzet (UAB).
  • Óscar Rivero Salgado, for the work Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, directed by Víctor Rotger (UPC).
Ex aequo mention
  • Sergi Baena i Miret, for his work Generalizations of the Hexagramme Mystique, directed by Joan-Carles Naranjo (UB).
Jury members
  • Jordi Quer, president (UPC)
  • Xavier Mora, secretary (UAB)
  • Angel Jorba (UB)
  • Pere Pascual (UPC)
  • Josep Lluís Solé (UAB)
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