In this second of two special colloquia, James Borger and Andrew Hassell will shed light on the mathematical work that merited the 2018 Fields Medals awarded to Peter Scholze and Akshay Venkatesh.

Professor Peter Scholze, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, University of Bonn
2018 Fields Medal for his contributions to arithmetic geometry.

Professor Akshay Venkatesh, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
2018 Fields Medal for his contributions to analytic number theory, homogeneous dynamics, topology, and representation theory.