Tuesday, 28 November 2017 A weekend full of international visits and mathematical contents!
Last weekend UP FAMNIT hosted several international visits, especially from the field of Mathematics.
A successful end of the week started already on Thursday, 23 November 2017, when our professor and researcher Assoc. Prof. Martin Milanič, PhD received the Zois Certificate of Recognition for important achievements in scientific research work in the field of discrete mathematics.
Zois Awards and Recognitions are the most prestigious awards for exceptional achievements in scientific research and development activities, awarded to researchers in the Republic of Slovenia.
(On the photo: Ass. Prof. Klavdija Kutnar, PhD (UP FAMNIT Dean), Prof. Tomaž Pisanski, PhD, Prof. Pavel Exner, PhD, Prof. Dragan Marušič, PhD (UP Rector), Assoc. Prof. Martin Milanič, PhD, Tomaž Boh, PhD (State Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia) and Assoc. Prof. Vito Vitrih, PhD (UP IAM Director)
The ceremony was attended also by Prof. Pavel Exner, PhD, President of the European Mathematical Society, who was our guest in the frame of the meeting of the Executive Council of the Society.
The meeting was held from Friday, 24 November, to Sunday, 26 November, in Portorož, where the University of Primorska will host the 8th European Congress of Mathematic – 8ECM. In addition to the president Prof. Exner, the meeting was attended also by the other members of the EC, which are all renowned university professors and researchers in various fields of mathematics.
At the three-day meeting they discussed the fruitful work of the Society and of course reviewed the process of organization of the 8ECM Congress.
The European Congress of Mathematics is the second biggest event in the field of mathematics in the world (in addition to the world's congress of mathematic). The Congress is organized every 4 years, with more than 1,000 mathematicians participating. Therefore, the organization of the event is currently in the full swing, which was noticed and praised also by the Council.
(On the photo: EMS Executive Council meeting participants)
Guests also visited UP FAMNIT, where they presented their research activities to students and researchers of the Faculty and UP IAM in the framework of the Mathematical research seminar.
On Friday, Akad. Prof. Marko Tadić, PhD from the University of Zagreb conducted a lecture entitled On non-commutative harmonic analysis and theory of automorphic forms.
Prof. Tadić obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Zagreb. He is now a full professor at the University of Zagreb and does research in the field of noncommutative harmonic analysis, especially the representation theory of classical groups and classification of unitary representation and its interaction.
Prof. Tadić did also a two full-year work as a visiting professor at the University of Utah and visited several other international universities and institutions for research and teaching work (University of Chicago, University Paris VI, Max Planck Institute for mathematics Bonn, University Paris-Orsay, University of Münster, national University of Singapore, The Hong Kong University of Science and technology, University Denis Diderot – Paris 7). Since 2000 he has been a member of the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts. He is also a member of Academia Europaea.
On Monday, however, a series of visits was concluded with Prof. Vicente Muñoz Velázquez, PhD with a lecture entitled Complex, Symplectic and Kahler geometry.
Prof. Muñoz Velázquez is a full professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid Facultad de Matematicas. He received his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Oxford and does research work in the field of geometry and topology. He is an active member of Spanish Royal Society of Mathematics and a member of executive committee of the European Mathematical Association.
(Photo: lectures delivered by Acad. Prof. Marko Tadić, PhD and Prof. Vicente Muñoz Velázquez, PhD)
It is our great pleasure and honor to host so many internationally acclaimed scientists and researchers, which only helps in opening even more our University to the world.
Saturday, 25 November 2017 Mathematical Advent Calendar 2017
Elementary School students (8th and 9th year) and High School students are invited to compete in solving problems as part of the Mathematical Advent Calendar.
The competitors are divided into three categories: 1st level (Elementary School, 2nd level (High School, first and second year) and 3rd level (High School, third and fourth year).
You will have fun with the Mathematical Advent Calendar from December 1st to December 20th.
There is one day (24 hours) available for solving each of the problems (from midnight till midnight).
In each category three awards will be given, each award will be a USB together with a T-shirt.
Only High School students and Elementary School pupils (8th and 9th year) are allowed to compete; they have to create an account here.
Others can join here.
The rules of the quiz are available here.
Friday, 24 November 2017 Assoc. Prof. Martin Milanič, PhD awarded with the prestigious Zois Certificate of Recognition
We are honored to announce that our professor and researcher Assoc. Prof. Martin Milanič, PhD received the Zois Certificate of Recognition for important achievements in scientific research work in the field of discrete mathematics.
Zois Awards and Recognitions are the most prestigious awards for exceptional achievements in scientific research and development activities, awarded to researchers in the Republic of Slovenia.
Martin Milanič earned his doctorate degree at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA). Between July 2007 and February 2009 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Technology at Bielefeld University, and after that he was employed at the University of Primorska – on the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies and on Andrej Marušič Institute.
Assoc. Prof. Milanič, PhD deals with discrete mathematics, especially with algorithmic graph theory and theoretical computer science. His bibliography covers more than 70 original scientific articles and a chapter in a scientific monograph, with more than 290 pure citations over the past ten years.
He is also member of the Organising Committee of the 8th European Congress of Mathematics - 8ECM, which will take place in Pororož (Slovenia) in 2020.
Photo: RTV TV SLO (http://4d.rtvslo.si/arhiv/podelitve-nagrad/174504412)
The ceremony was attended also by Prof. Pavel Exner, PhD, President of the European Mathematical Society, who is currently visiting UP FAMNIT.
On the photo below: Ass. Prof. Klavdija Kutnar, PhD (UP FAMNIT Dean), Prof. Tomaž Pisanski, PhD, Prof. Pavel Exner, PhD, Prof. Dragan Marušič, PhD (UP Rector), Assoc. Prof. Martin Milanič, PhD, Tomaž Boh, PhD (State Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia) and Assoc. Prof. Vito Vitrih, PhD (UP IAM Director).
Wednesday, 15 November 2017 Workshop on Discrete and Computational Biomathematics and Mathematical Chemistry 2017
This week UP FAMNIT is hosting the Workshop on Discrete and Computational Biomathematics and Mathematical Chemistry 2017 which is organized together with the Slovenian Discrete and Applied Mathematics Society
From Wednesday 15 November to Friday 17 November students and professors are invited to take part in lectures and other activities, which will be held also by guest lecturers from the University of Leipzig.
The Workshop programme and abstracts are available here.
(On the picture: guests from the University of Leipzig - Jörg Fallmann, Sarah Berkemer, Nancy Retzlaff, Jörg Fallmann and UP FAMNIT Assist. Nino Bašić)
