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The second edition of the International Banach Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation in the mathematical sciences is about to commence.
This year's competition is open to doctoral students from
Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
specializing in mathematical sciences.
The Prize, worth 20 000 PLN, is going to be presented to the winner at the 4th Forum of Polish Mathematicians in summer 2010.
The Prize was established in 2008 in a joint initiative of the Polish Mathematical Society and Ericpol Telecom,
a large Polish IT company. The ceremonial signing was held in the Cloth Hall building right at the heart of the Main Market Square
in Krakw, the home town of the renown Polish mathematician, professor Stefan Banach.
"Young mathematicians should follow professor Banach's example. At the start of his scientific career he had
to cope with numerous obstacles, but thanks to the unique qualities of his mind and personality he never gave up and managed to become
one of the best-known mathematicians in the world - reminded prof. Stefan Jackowski, head of the Polish
Mathematical Society, during the ceremony of signing the agreement which brought the Prize to life.
"Without poetry or fine arts our world would be incomplete, however, without mathematics modern civilization
would simply not exist", said Jan Smela, the president of Ericpol Telecom.
In total, 19 dissertations from Poland, Ukraine, and Latvia qualified for the first edition of the competition. The jury selected
the best five - four finalists and the winner, Tomasz Elsner, PhD from the University of Wroclaw. His work, supervised by professor
Lech Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, PhD, was entitled The minimal surface theory in systolic spaces.
The authors of the other four nominated papers were: Grzegorz Kapustka, PhD from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow,
Pawel Konieczny, PhD and Filip Murlak, PhD - both from the University of Warsaw, and Piotr Przytycki, PhD from the Institute of
Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Read more on the first edition here.
More information on professor Stefan Banach may be found here.
The Banach Prize regulations are available here.
