Summary
This award provides participant support for the conference “The Gross–Zagier Formula, 40 Years Later,” which will take place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from August 3-7, 2026. The Gross–Zagier formula is a fundamental result in the mathematical field of number theory relating a special solution of a certain degree-three Diophantine equation to the vanishing of a special function called an L-function. This result has provided some of the strongest evidence to date for the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer for elliptic curves, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. Th
