At the opening event of the 2018 International Congress of Mathematics in Rio, there have been awarded the following prizes:

• Fields medals to:
  • Caucher Birkar, Cambridge University (UK),
  • Alessio Figalli, ETH-Zurich (Switzerland), 2012 EMS Prize,
  • Peter Scholze, Bonn University (Germany), 2016 EMS Prize,
  • Akshay Venkatesh, Stanford University (US).
• Nevanlinna award to Constantinos Daskalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US).
• Gauss prize to David Donoho, Stanford University (US).
• Chern medal to Masaki Kashiwara, Kyoto University (Japan).
• Leelavati prize to Ali Nesin, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi (Turkey).

https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2018
https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/rolf-nevanlinna-prize/rolf-nevanlinna-prize-2018
https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize-2018
https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/chern-medal-award/chern-medal-award-2018
https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/leelavati-prize/leelavati-prize-2018