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International mathematical prize for Dr Anna Szymusiak

International mathematical prize for Dr Anna Szymusiak

Dr Anna Szymusiak from the JU Chair in Applied Mathematics was awarded with this year’s International Stefan Banach Prize for a Doctoral Dissertation in the Mathematical Sciences. She will receive her statuette, along with a cheque for 25,000 PLN, during the 8th Forum of Polish Mathematicians, organised in September in Lublin.



The International Stefan Banach Prize for a Doctoral Dissertation in the Mathematical Sciences is funded by Ericsson and awarded by the Polish Mathematical Society. Its aim is to promote and financially support the most promising young researchers in the mathematical sciences.

In this year’s edition of the contest, eight PhD dissertations from Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Hungary and Finland competed for the prize. The jury, comprising representatives of the contest organisers as well as the winner of the previous edition, nominated three of them. Apart from Dr Szymusiak, the other two nominees were Matteo Marcozzi (University of Helsinki) and Elefterios Soultanis (Polish Academy of Science and University of Helsinki).

The awarded thesis, entitled Minimization of the entropy of measurement for symmetric POVMs and their informational power, was written under the supervision of Dr hab. Wojciech Słomczyński from the JU Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. It is devoted to quantum information theory, a subject related to both mathematics and theoretical physics.

Stefan Banach – the founder of functional analysis and the patron of the prize – symbolizes the values of talent, hard-work and determination. Banach, known also for his talent and unconventional approach to research, rose to prominence as one of the most famous mathematicians in the world. Banach was born in 1892 and spent his youth in Kraków. He studied at the Technical University in Lwów. In 1920, without completing a university level mathematical education, he received the doctoral degree in mathematics from the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, where after four years he became a full professor. In 1935 he was invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Oslo. Shortly before World War II Banach was elected President of the Polish Mathematical Society. Banach died in Lwów in the Summer of 1945.

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