On March 10, 2025, at 5 PM in the Prof. Marin Drinov Hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Yuri Tschinkel will deliver an academic lecture on the occasion of his election as a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Tschinkel was elected a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences on November 25, 2024, upon the proposal of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics. He is a world-renowned mathematician, a creator of several new directions with a huge influence on the development of modern mathematics, with remarkable results in rational points on algebraic varieties; stable irrationality; stabilization; symbol theory; and G-irrationality.
Currently, Prof. Tschinkel is a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA. He is one of the leading contemporary mathematicians with outstanding contributions to the development of algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and geometric aspects of mathematical physics. For his great contribution to mathematics, Prof. Tschinkel has been awarded several prizes in Мathematics, including the Frontier of Science Award from the International Congress of Fundamental Sciences, Beijing, 2023. In 2018, he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Academy, and in 2021, he was elected a foreign member of the Academia Europaea.
Prof. Tschinkel is а director of the Mathematics and Physical Sciences Division of the Simons Foundation – one of the largest charitable organizations in the United States. It provides grants in four scientific areas: Мathematics and Physical sciences; Life Sciences; Autism Research and Education, Engagement and Outreach. The Mathematics and Physical Sciences Division of the Simons Foundation supports research in the fields of mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science by providing funding for scientists, institutions and scientific infrastructure.
Prof. Tschinkel participated actively in the initial discussions on the establishment of the International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS–Sofia) at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences together with Prof. Julian Revalski, Prof. Ivan Todorov and Prof. Ludmil Katzarkov. Today, Prof. Tschinkel is a member of the ICMS Advisory Board. He has always strongly supported the activities of ICMS–Sofia and contributed to transforming ICMS–Sofia into a leading research and scientific center in South-Eastern Europe.
