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Prof. Edward Saff presented the certificates to the Rose and Irving Saff Award laureates
Award in mathematics Rose and Irving Saff was founded by Prof. Edward Saff from Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA, who is a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in memory of his parents.
It is awarded each year to a student in mathematics for high achievements and excellence in mathematics.
In a modest ceremony held at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics yesterday, May 31, Prof. Saff personally presented the certificates to the winners of the Rose and Irving Saff Award for the past four years. In the past few years, the Award has been awarded, but the ceremony was not held due to the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The awardees are:
Maria Pashinska, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Veliko Tarnovo University, winner of the Award for 2019,
Elena Nikolova, Technical University of Sofia, laureate of the Award for 2020,
Plamen Ivanov, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, awarded in 2021 and
Aleksander Prodanov, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, awarded in 2022.
Prof. Edward Saff is in Bulgaria to participate in the Sphere packings, coverings, and spherical codes (SPCSC2023) international workshop that ended yesterday. He is a sincere friend of Bulgaria and Bulgarian mathematicians and is planning his next visit to Sofia during the International Conference Mathematics Days in Sofia, which will be held from July 10 to 14 this year.
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
Luis Caffarelli, Copyright holder:
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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.
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