Kimmy Wu and Vesselin Dimitrov honored for physics and math research Two Caltech professors were awarded 2026 New Horizons Prizes as part of the Breakthrough Foundation's annual prize ceremony, known colloquially as the "Oscars of Science." Wai Ling (Kimmy) Wu, assistant professor of physics at Caltech, has received a New Horizons in Physics prize for her "advances in cosmic microwave background and supernovae cosmology," according to the foundation. Vesselin Dimitrov, professor of mathematics, was awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for his "work in Diophantine geometry, including the proof of the Atkin-Swinnerton-Dyer unbounded denominators conjecture and new irrationality results for special values of Dirichlet L-series." Dimitrov was awarded the prize jointly with Yunqing Tang, a Caltech professor of mathematics on leave and currently at UC Berkeley. The award citation for the honor notes that this combined work was done jointly with Frank Calegari of the University of Chicago.…