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The 2nd winner of the International Stefan Banach Prize

Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss, 2010 Fields Medal Laureate, in an interview for the Polish Mathematical Society and Ericpol

On September 13th 2011, as part of the joint initiative of the Polish Mathematical Society and Ericpol, an interview was held in the Biedermann Palace in Łódź with Elon Lindenstrauss, an outstanding mathematician, professor at the Einstein Mathematics Institute at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.

The fourth season of the Banach Prize has commenced

The fourth season of the International Banach Prize is underway. The competition is open to PhD students from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Ukraine and Hungary. The prize is 20 000 PLN (5 000 euro) and is one of the highest sums of money awarded in mathematics in [...]

The winner of the 3rd season of the International Banach Prize rewarded

The ceremony of awarding the International Banach Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in the mathematical sciences took place on the 12th of September, 2011 during the Izraeli-Polish Mathematical Meeting in Łódź. The opening meeting gathered 300 participants from over 100 scientific institutions from around the world.

The winner of 3rd edition

The winner in the 3rd season of the International Banach Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in mathematical sciences in 2011 is doctor Łukasz Pańkowski of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The awarded dissertation, Joint universality theorems vs. Kronecker’s diophantine approximation theorem, was written under the supervision of Professor Jerzy Kaczorowski, PhD.

Deadline for sending applications has passed

31 of January 2011 was the deadline for submitting applications for the third edition of The International Stefan Banach Prize. For this year season of the competition 14 PhD theses were submitted, including 9 from Poland, 1 from the Czech Republic and one each from Norway, Ukraine, Estonia and Sweden.

The third season of the Banach Prize competition has commenced

The third season of the International Banach Prize competition is underway. This year, the competition is also open to PhD students from three Scandinavian countries i.e. Finland, Norway and Sweden. The prize of 20 000 PLN is one of the highest sums of money awarded in mathematics in Poland, and it was founded in 2008 [...]