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.
