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The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics offers postdoctoral positions for the ICMS – Sofia
The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS) welcomes expressions of interest by postdoctoral researchers, offering to host highly motivated mathematicians and computer scientists, who wish to apply for a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Fellowship or a National Scientific Program “Petar Beron” Fellowship. Successful candidates will be affiliated with the International Center for Mathematical Sciences, Sofia (ICMS-Sofia), which is part of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics.
More information can be found at https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/101722
Researchers, interested in applying for a fellowship send a CV, list of publications and research statement to pdj@math.bas.bg, with a copy to peter@math.bas.bg and director@math.bas.bg no later than July 1st, 2023.
Luis A. Caffarelli is the 2023 Abel Prize Laureate
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The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2023 to Luis A. Caffarelli of the University of Texas at Austin, USA for his “seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation”.
Few other living mathematicians have contributed more to our understanding of partial differential equations than the Argentinian–American Luis Caffarelli. He has introduced ingenious new techniques, shown brilliant geometric insight, and produced many seminal results. Over a period of more than 40 years, he has made groundbreaking contributions to regularity theory. Regularity – or smoothness – of solutions is essential in numerical computations, and absence of regularity is a measure of how wildly nature can behave.
“Caffarelli’s theorems have radically changed our understanding of classes of nonlinear partial differential equations with wide applications. The results are technically virtuous, covering many different areas of mathematics and its applications,” says chair of the Abel Committee Helge Holden.
Caffarelli is an exceptionally prolific mathematician, with more than 130 collaborators and more than 30 PhD students over a period of 50 years.
“Combining brilliant geometric insight with ingenious analytical tools and methods he has had and continues to have an enormous impact on the field,” says Helge Holden.
Luis A. Caffarelli has won numerous awards, among them the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics, the Wolf Prize and the Shaw Prize.
The presentation of the Abel Prize to Luis Caffarelli will take place at a formal ceremony to be held on 23 May 2023 in Oslo, Norway.
IMI Mathematics Prize for 2023 Nominations
The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences opens a call for nominations for the IMI Mathematics Prize for the year 2023 for excellent achievements in Mathematics. The candidates must be Bulgarian citizens and must not have completed 40 years of age before January 1st, 2023.
The IMI award is a metal statuette, accompanied by a diploma and a cash prize. Funds for the premium are raised through donations. Details about the Prize and the nominations procedure can be found in the Statute of the Prize.
The members of the IMI Prize Committee for 2023 are:
- Julian Revalski, President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria – Chairman of the Prize Committee
- Gilles Godefroy, CNRS, France
- Martin Kassabov, University of Cornell, USA
- Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Miami, USA and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
- Edward Saff, Vanderbilt University, USA, Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The deadline for nominations is May 15th, 2023. Nominations should be sent via e-mail to the Chairman of the Prize Committee at revalski@math.bas.bg.
Nominations must include the following:
- Name, date of birth and affiliation of the nominee;
- A brief description of the nominee’s most significant contributions presented in a language comprehensible to mathematicians from various fields;
- List of most significant selected works (no more than 10).
For the first time, the Prize was awarded in 2014 to Martin Kassabov, a Professor at the University of Cornell, USA. In 2017, during the International Conference Mathematics Days in Sofia, the prestigious award was presented to Kiril Dachev, professor of mathematics at Purdue University, USA. The first woman recipient of the IMI Award is Greta Panova, associate professor at the University of Southern California, USA, who received the award in 2020.
More about the laureates read here.
IMI offers a Senior Researcher position under the VIHREN Program
The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences offers a 6-month Senior Researcher position in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The position is part of the 5-year project ”Categorical Kaehler Geometry and Applications” (CKGA) started in January 2020, funded by the National Science Fund of Bulgaria, National Scientific Program “VIHREN”. Project PI is Prof. Ludmil Katzarkov.
Detailed information can be found at https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/56659.
Third Annual Conference “Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe”
The International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS-Sofia), the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians and the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas at the University of Miami (IMSA) are organizing the Third International Conference Women in Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe. The conference will be held on December 8 and 9, 2022, hosted by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.
The initiative Women in Mathematics of South-Eastern Europe, aiming at promoting the role of female mathematicians, started in Dec 2020, when the inaugural conference took place. Even then, the organizers intended to turn the scientific forum into a prestigious annual event. A special distinguished guest of the inaugural conference was prof. Mina Teicher from the Department of Mathematics and Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Director of Emmy Noether Institute for Mathematics.
One of the main goals of the conference organizers is to create new long-term collaborations between mathematicians in South-Eastern Europe. They expect that through participation women mathematicians will attract the attention of young researchers and researchers from less-favoured countries.
In this year’s edition of the forum, special guests are distinguished mathematicians Anna Maria Fino, University of Torino, Italy and Sofia Lambropoulou, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
The event is held with the support of the Scientific Program PIKOM, the Simons Foundation and the European Mathematical Society.
The official opening of the conference will take place on December 8, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. in the Meeting Hall of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. A special guest at the event is Petar Kenderov, who will deliver a lecture on The Teacher Said: There Is No Such Problem.
Information about all speakers, as well as titles and abstracts of their reports, can be found here https://icms.bg/women-in-mathematics-in-south-eastern-europe-2022/
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