Carlo Pagano awarded André Aisenstadt Prize

Carlo Pagano of Concordia University, currently a visitor at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, has received the 2025 André Aisenstadt Prize [3]. This celebrates the achievements of young Canadians in both pure and applied mathematics.

In joint work with Peter Koymans, he settled Stevenhagen's conjecture on the negative Pell equation, which is a very strong result in arithmetic statistics. Their breakthrough was covered extensively in the Quanta magazine and can be found here [4].

But Peter and Carlo have not stopped there. They switched gears and are now tackling problems concerning decidability, in particular related to the (non-)existence of an algorithm that determines, under certain assumptions, whether a Diophantine equation has a solution. You can read more about this in another Quanta magazine article [5] about their work.

Carlo’s strong ties to MPIM include his two year postdoctoral stay, followed by multiple subsequent visits.