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Duke Assistant Professor Alexander Dunn and Assistant Professor Harold Blum have each been independently recognized by the International Congress of Basic Science and have won a 2026 Frontiers of Science Award for their work.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlexander Dunn and his collaborator Maksym Radziwi\u0142\u0142 were recognized for their work in Analytic Number Theory for their paper \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/annals.math.princeton.edu\/2024\/200-3\/p03\u0022\u003E\u0022Bias in cubic Gauss sums: Patterson\u0027s conjecture\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E, which appeared in \u003Cem\u003EAnnals of Mathematics\u003C\/em\u003E (2024), widely considered one of the top mathematics journals in the world.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHarold Blum, together with his collaborators Jaron Alper, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, and Chenyang Xu, were recognized for their work in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry for their paper \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00222-020-00987-2\u0022\u003E\u0022Reductivity of the automorphism group of K-polystable Fano varieties\u0022\u003C\/a\u003E, which appeared in \u003Cem\u003EInventiones mathematicae\u003C\/em\u003E (2020), another journal in a very short list of the topmost mathematical journals in the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe award was inaugurated in 2023, and it honors papers from the last 10 years that represent major breakthroughs in their respective fields. 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