A highlight of the 2026 DMV Annual Meeting is the Emmy Noether Lecture, which this year will be delivered by Prof. Dr. Britta Späth. Britta Späth is a professor of Algebra and Number Theory at the University of Wuppertal and a leading expert in the representation theory of finite groups.



Together with Marc Cabanes, Britta Späth succeeded in proving the McKay Conjecture in February 2025 after decades of intensive research — one of the most significant open problems in modern group theory. The McKay Conjecture describes a profound relationship between the number of irreducible complex characters of a finite group and the normalizers of its Sylow p-subgroups. Their proof marks an important milestone in algebraic research and was published in the Annals of Mathematics.