The Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize

2022 Edition


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Conditions

The prize will be awarded for a mathematical monograph of an expository nature presenting the latest developments in an active area of research in Mathematics, in which the applicant has made important contributions.

The monograph must be original, unpublished and must not be subject to any previous copyright agreement, written in English, and of at least 150 pages. In exceptional cases, manuscripts in other languages may be considered.

The prize, amounting to 15.000 euros, is provided by the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation. The winning monograph will be published in Birkhäuser’s series “Progress in Mathematics”, subject to the usual regulations concerning copyright and author’s rights of the series.

The submission of a monograph implies the acceptance of all of the above conditions.

The name of the prize-winner will be announced in Barcelona in April 2023.

Submission of monographs and information

The monographs must be submitted preferably in TeX.

Submissions must be sent telematically using this form, with the monograph attached as a pdf file.

Submissions should be sent before December 2, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. (GTM+1)

Scientific Committee

The winner of the prize will be proposed by a Scientific Committee consisting of:

Antoine Chambert-Loir
Université Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)

Ruth Kellerhals
Université de Fribourg

Marta Sanz-Solé
Universitat de Barcelona

Kristian Seip
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Yuri Tschinkel
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University

The 2022 Prize winner

2022	Pascal Auscher (Université Paris-Saclay) i Moritz Egert (TU Darmstad). *Boundary value problems and hardy spaces for elliptic systems with block structure*

Winners from the previous editions

2021	Tim Browning (Institute of Science and Thecnology. Austria). *Cubic forms and the circle method*
2020	Urtzi Buijs (Universidad de Málaga), Yves Félix (Institut de Mathématiques et Physique, Université catholique de Louvain), Aniceto Murillo (Universidad de Málaga) and Daniel Tanré (Université de Lille). *Lie models in topology*. (Progress in Mathematics n. 335, Birkhäuser)

2020	Giovanni Catino (Politecnico di Milano) and Paolo Mastrolia (Università degli Studi di Milano). *A Perspective on Canonical Riemannian Metrics*. (Progress in Mathematics n. 336, Birkhäuser)
2019	Not awarded
2018	Michael Ruzhansky (Imperial College London) and Durvudkhan Suragan (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan). Hardy inequalities on homogeneous groups (100 years of Hardy inequalities). (Progress in Mathematics n. 327, Birkhäuser)
2017	Antoine Chambert-Loir (Université Paris-Diderot Paris 7), Johannes Nicaise (Imperial College London), and Julien Sebag (Université Rennes 1) *Motivic Integration*. (Progress in Mathematics n. 325, Birkhäuser)
2016	Vladimir Turaev (Indiana University) and Alexis Virelizier (Université Lille 1) *Monoidal Categories and Topological Field Theory* (Progress in Mathematics n. 322, Birkhäuser)
2015	Not awarded
2014	Veronique Fischer i Michael Ruzhansky, de l’Imperial College London (Regne Unit) *Quantization on Nilpotent Lie Groups* (Progress in Mathematics n. 314, Birkhäuser)

2013	Xavier Tolsa, de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. *Analytic capacity, the Cauchy transform, and non-homogeneous Calderón-Zygmund theory* (Progress in Mathematics n. 307, Birkhäuser)

2012	Angel Cano, de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Juan Pablo Navarrete, de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, i Jose Seade, de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. *Complex Kleinian Groups* (Progress in Mathematics n.303, Birkhäuser)
2011	Jayce Getz, de la McGill University, de Montreal, i Mark Goresky, de la School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, de Princeton *Hilbert Modular Forms with Coefficients in Intersection Homology and Quadratic Base Change* (Progress in Mathematics n.298, Birkhäuser)
2010	Carlo Mantegazza, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa *Lectures Notes on Mean Curvature Flow* (Progress in Mathematics n.290, Birkhäuser)
2009	Tim Browning, Bristol University *Quantitative Arithmetic of Projective Varieties* (Progress in Mathematics n.277, Birkhäuser)
2008	Luis Barreira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa *Dimension and Recurrence in Hyperbolic Dynamics* (Progress in Mathematics n.272, Birkhäuser)
2007	Rosa M. Miró-Roig, Universitat de Barcelona Lectures on Determinantal Ideals (Progress in Mathematics n.264, Birkhäuser)
2006	Xiaonan Ma, École Polytechnique Palaiseau and George Marinescu, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Holomorphic Morse inequalities and Bergman kernels (Progress in Mathematics n.254, Birkhäuser)
2005	Antonio Ambrosetti, and Andrea Malchiodi , SISSA, Italy Perturbation Methods and Semiliniar Elliptic Problems on Rn (Progress in Mathematics n.240, Birkhäuser) José Seade, UNAM, Mexico On the topology of isolated singularities in analytic spaces (Progress in Mathematics n.241, Birkhäuser)
2004	Guy David, Université de Paris-Sud Singular sets of minimizers for the Mumford-Shah functional (Progress in Mathematics n.233, Birkhäuser)
2003	Fuensanta Andreu-Vaillo and José M. Mazón, Universitat de València and Vicent Casellas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Parabolic Quasilinear Equations Minimizing Linear Growth Functionals (Progress in Mathematics n.223, Birkhäuser)
2002	Alexander Lubotzky and Dan Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and All Souls College, Oxford Subgroup Growth (Progress in Mathematics n.212, Birkhäuser) André Unterberger, Université de Reims Automorphic Pseudodifferential Analysis and Higher-level Weyl Calculi (Progress in Mathematics, n. 209, Birkhäuser)
2001	Martin Golubitsky and Ian Stewart, University of Houston, Warwick University The Symmetry Perspective (Progress in Mathematics, n. 200, Birkhäuser)
2000	Juan-Pablo Ortega and Tudor Ratiu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Hamiltonian Singular Reduction (Progress in Mathematics n.222, Birkhäuser)
1999	Patrick Dehornoy, Université de Caen Braids and Self-Distributivity (Progress in Mathematics, n. 192, Birkhäuser)
1998	Juan J. Morales-Ruiz, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Differential Galois Theory and Non-integrability of Hamiltonian Systems (Progress in Mathematics, n.179, Birkhäuser)
1997	A. Böttcher, TU Chemnitz and Y. I. Karlovich, Marine Hydrophysical Institute Carleson Curves, Munchenhoupt Weights, and Toeplitz Operators (Progress in Mathematics, n. 154, Birkhäuser)
1996	V. Kumar Murty and M. Ram Murty, University of Toronto Non-Vanishing of L-Functions and Applications (Progress in Mathematics n. 157, Birkhäuser)
1995	Not awarded
1994	Klaus Schmidt, Warwick University Dynamical Systems of Algebraic Origin (Progress in Mathematics n.128, Birkhäuser)
1993	Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures> (Progress in Mathematics n.125, Birkhäuser)