The 2026 AMS-EMS Mikhail Gordin Prize will be awarded to Vadim Gorin from the University of California, Berkeley and Simion Filip from the University of Chicago. The prize is awarded by the American Mathematical Society and the European Mathematical Society. 

Citation for Gorin
The 2026 Gordin Prize is awarded to Vadim Gorin for his elegant use of algebraic techniques to prove universality results for scaling limits of probabilistic and statistical physics models.

Much of Gorin’s work pertains to probability measures on interlacing systems of particles, such as occur in random 2d tiling models, random matrix theory, characters of classical Lie groups, and vertex models. In this context, Gorin has developed sophisticated generalizations of the Fourier/characteristic function and Schwinger-Dyson loop equation approaches to prove the law of large numbers (i.e., limit shapes), central limit theorems (i.e., Gaussian free field fluctuations), and other important fluctuation results.

Gorin proved the universality of local correlations for random lozenge tilings of a broad class of polygonal domains, and partial universality for any polygonal domain. This was the first significant progress in a well-known conjecture that originated from the work of Cohn, Kenyon, and Propp over 20 years ago. Subsequently, with Petrov, Gorin proved universality of local statistics for nonintersecting random walks on short time scales. This was a crucial ingredient in Aggarwal’s resolution of the Cohn-Kenyon-Propp conjecture.

Recently, Gorin, along with Xu and Zhang, used his generalized Fourier approach via Dunkl differential-difference operators to construct the long sought-after edge scaling limit of the general Beta Dyson Brownian motion, generalizing the celebrated Airy2 line ensemble.

In work with Borodin and Guionnet, Gorin introduced the "Nekrasov equations," a generalization of the Schwinger-Dyson loop equations, and applied them to study asymptotics of a wide class of discrete general beta ensembles. Gorin and Huang, and related work of Dimitrov and Knizel, subsequently introduced a dynamical version of these Nekrasov equations that enabled their study of very general 2d interlacing systems of particles in which these discrete beta ensembles are embedded as 1d slices.

Gorin has several other influential works. With Borodin and Corwin, he proved Gwa and Spohn’s 1993 conjecture that the stochastic six-vertex model has fluctuations determined by the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, and with Bykhovskaya he applied his expertise in random matrix theory to solve several statistical problems previously posed by leading economists.

Response from Vadim Gorin
I am deeply honored to receive the AMS-EMS Mikhail Gordin Prize. Mikhail Gordin made seminal contributions to Central Limit Theorems for stationary processes and to the asymptotic theory of random matrices - two themes that strongly resonate with my own research. It has a special meaning for me to have my work associated with his name.

My research achievements would not have been possible without the support of the scientific community. I am grateful to my teachers, collaborators, and colleagues for their guidance and inspiring discussions, and to my students, who represent the future of our field. Above all, I am especially indebted to my wife, Anna, for her unwavering support, inspiration, and encouragement.

About Vadim Gorin
Vadim Gorin graduated from Moscow State University in 2008 and earned Ph.Ds in Mathematics from both Moscow State University and Utrecht University in 2011. He moved to the United States in 2012 as a postdoctoral scholar at MSRI (now SLMath). Since then, he has held faculty positions at MIT, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently jointly appointed in the Departments of Statistics and Mathematics.

His research interests include integrable probability, random matrix theory, asymptotic representation theory, and high-dimensional statistics. His honors include the Moscow Mathematical Society Prize (2014), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2016), the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize (2018), and the Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2018). 

via the American Mathematical Society