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

The 4th edition of the International Stefan Banach Prize is now closed

The winner of this year’s competition is Andras Mathe, PhD, of Warwick University in Great Britain. His award-winning dissertation is titled “The isomorphism problem of Hausdorff measures and Hoelder restrictions of functions” and was written under the supervision of Professor Miklós Laczkovich of the Institute of Mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. [...]

Deadline for sending applications has passed

31 of January 2012 was the deadline for submitting applications for the fourth edition of The International Stefan Banach Prize. For this year season of the competition 12 PhD theses were submitted, among them of 7 from Poland, 3 from Hungary, 2 from Ukraine and 2 from Finland. The jury – consisting, among others, of [...]

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.