EMS Digest, Nr. 40

Simons for Africa - Deadline Approaching

The prize has been awarded every two years since 1989. The most recent winners
are Sorin Popa in 2009, Ib Madsen, David Preiss and Kannan Soundararajan in
2011, Yitang Zhang in 2013, Peter Scholze in 2015, Akshay Venkatesh in 2017, and
Assaf Naor in 2019. See [the website](https://www.ostrowski.ch/index_e.php) for the complete list and further details.

The jury invites nominations for candidates for the 2021 Ostrowski Prize. Nomina-
tions should include a CV of the candidate, a letter of nomination and 2–3 letters of reference. The Chair of the jury for 2021 is Carel Faber of the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Nominations should be sent to *C dot F dot Faber at uu dot nl* by September 30th, 2021.

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Call for Nominations for the Ostrowski Prize, 2021

EMS Office Closed for Summer

Read about her path to Olympic glory [at cyling news]( https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/anna-kiesenhofer-mathematician-amateur-cyclist-olympic-champion/).

Her mathematical expertise is integrable systems. Browse her publications [on zbMATH Open](https://zbmath.org/authors/?q=ai%3Akiesenhofer.anna).

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Anna Kiesenhofer - mathematician and Olympic gold medallist

The Jaroslav and Barbara Zemánek Prize in functional analysis with emphasis
on operator theory for 2021 is awarded to Jochen Glück (University of Passau, Germany)
for his work on one-parameter operator semigroups and their various applications, 
along with several outstanding contributions to  general operator theory. The
Jury emphasized his deep and elegant results regarding the existence of dilations of Banach space contractions and on the existence
of spectral gaps for hyperbounded operators on $L^p$-spaces.

Following a generous donation of Zemánek's family,
the annual Zemánek's Prize was
founded by the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN)
in March 2018, in order to encourage the research in
functional analysis, operator theory and related topics. The Prize
is established to promote young mathematicians, under 35 years of age,
who made important contributions to the field.



The awarding ceremony will take place at IM PAN, Warsaw,
in Fall 2021.

A more detailed information about the Prize can be found on the webpage
[https://www.impan.pl/en/events/awards/b-and-j-zemanek-prize](https://www.impan.pl/en/events/awards/b-and-j-zemanek-prize).

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Jochen Glück awarded Jaroslav and Barbara Zemánek Prize in functional analysis

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Conference on The Future of Europe

Conference on the Future of Europe

Highlights include:
- Emmylou Haffner on Bernhard Riemann’s collected works: Then and now - a fascinating illustrated historical account of the editing process 
- Alexander I. Efimov on Categorical smooth compactifications and neighborhoods of infinity
- Joaquim Serra on The geometric structure of interfaces and free boundaries. Plateau’s problem, the role of Elliptic PDEs, phase transistions, and beyond.
- Quentin Mérigot and Boris Thibert on Mirrors, lenses and Monge–Ampère equations. Is it possible to shape a piece of glass so that it refracts and concentrates sunlight in order to produce a given image?
Plus:
- Impact factor, an inadequate yardstick
- Mathematical (online) meetings reimagined?
- The UK’s first National Mathematics Discovery Centre
- The Weierstrass Institute
- The Slovak Mathematical Society
- How Romanian mathematicians support Uganda in International Mathematical Olympiads
... and much more!

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EMS Magazine, No. 120

The EMS offers our sincere thanks and congratulations to all the organisers, committee members, and volunteers who made the event possible. Special thanks go Tomaž Pisanski and Klavdija Kutnar, respective chair and cochair of the organising commitee.

Videos of selected events are coming soon to the [EMS Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj2tKe59xIORBOQFXxUFmyw). In the meantime, look back on highlights of the conference on the [ECM page](https://www.8ecm.si/news) and read [this write up](https://www.dmfa.si/ODrustvu/NovicaPrikaz.aspx?itemid=469&fbclid=IwAR0rnKvCz2N3BLQ0q0pdwMB8o9vnOUms-17t5xcT2H8gmMeYxpZvm_tpSQU) of the conference by Boštjan Kuzman for the Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia.



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