The paper "A q-microscope for supercongruences, by Victor J. W. Guo and Wadim Zudilin has been awarded the 2026 ICBS Frontiers of Science Award in Mathematics in the category: Ordinary Differential Equations, Special Functions and D-Modules of the International Congress of Basic Science (2026).
The International Congress for Basic Science honours top research, with an emphasis on achievements from the past ten years which are both excellent and of outstanding scholarly value. For the 2026 selection, scientific works in both basic and applied research are chosen in 40 areas of the three basic science fields (mathematics, physics, and information sciences and engineering) represented at the ICBS.
The goal of this award is to encourage young scholars to look to the frontiers of basic science, set goals to obtain breakthrough results as early as possible, and contribute wisdom and energy to humankind's study of the mysteries of the natural world.