2021 is the year of recovering from the coronavirus outbreak from 2020. But it was still a fruitful year for our Analysis & PDE Center at Ghent University. Here, we summarise the main highlights from this year.

Full detailed summary for 2021

Brief statistics:

• Our website analysis-pde.org had more than 68,000 views since 2019.
• We had 33 speakers in Ghent Methusalem Junior Seminar for 2021.
• More than 170 presentations were given by our members in our Analysis & PDE group seminar in 2021.
• Members of our Analysis & PDE Centre in 2021 attracted more than €6,250,000 in research funding, as well as received a number of prestigious awards and prizes for their research.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE DETAILED SUMMARY

A member of our Analysis & PDE Centre, Nurgissa Yessirkegenov, became

the Laureate of the State Youth Prize “Daryn-2021“

in the nomination Science. The State Youth Prize “Daryn” of the Republic of Kazakstan is awarded annually in order to support talented youth for fruitful scientific, creative, social activities, as well as for high sporting achievements.

Earlier, Nurgissa Yessirkegenov received several prestigious international awards for achievements in research among young scientists, such as “Santander Mobility Grant” (Great Britain, 2017), “Heidelberg Laureate Forum Grant” (Germany, 2017), “Doris Chen Merit Award” (Great Britain, 2018), “Doris Chen Mobility Grant” (Great Britain, 2018), Axioms Prize (Switzerland, 2018) and a grant from the London Mathematical Society “Early Career Fellowship” (Great Britain, 2019).

In January 2020 Nurgissa defended his PhD at Imperial College London (London, UK) on the topic: “Function spaces on Lie groups and their applications” under the guidance of Professor Michael Ruzhansky.

During his doctoral studies, Nurgissa received Imperial College’s highest “Doris Chen Merit Award” for talented PhD doctoral students. The Faculty of Mathematics of Imperial College London honors this award for exceptional early perspective and achievement, and it is presented on a rigorous competitive basis.

So far, Nurgissa has 22 scientific papers published in journals indexed in the Clarivate Analytics (ISI) Web of Knowledge database and 25 scientific papers in journals indexed in Scopus. He has a Hirsch index of 5 in the Clarivate Analytics (ISI) Web of Knowledge and Scopus databases.

Congratulations to Narciso Gomes for winning the IMU-Simons African Fellowship for the research stay at our Analysis & PDE Centre of Ghent University, from July 15, 2022 – September 30, 2022.

The award is to work on the joint project

Very weak solutions for Dirac operators with distributional coefficients

It is great to see that the research on very weak solutions attracts prestigious international awards!

Narciso Gomes is from the University of Cabo Verde in Africa. He is based at the Campus Universitário Palmarejo Grande – Novo Campus Praia, Santiago Island.

The IMU – Simons African Fellowship Program supports research sabbaticals for mathematicians from African developing countries employed in Africa to travel to an internationally renown mathematical centre of excellence (worldwide) for collaborative research. All travel and living expenses of the grantees will be covered by the fellowship up to 5,000 USD. See more here. Please also see Simons Foundation Website.

Cape Verde

A member of our Analysis & PDE centre, Hong-Wei Zhang, was presented “The Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad” which is given by the Chinese government to graduate students studying abroad who are not funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). Recipients are chosen worldwide each year for their outstanding accomplishments in academia. Only 500 are awarded annually among all Chinese overseas graduate students in all disciplines. Because of this highly competitive selection, this prestigious award is considered the highest award the Chinese government gives to overseas graduate students.

The prize comes with a certificate and 6000 USD award.

Congratulations Hongwei!

Scope: In recent years there has been major advances in harmonic analysis and spectral theory over groups and general noncommutative structures, such as full symbol calculus for compact and nilpotent groups or spectral theory for quaternionic and Clifford-algebra valued operators. These new theories also brought new ideas to areas like very weak solutions of PDEs, anharmonic analysis, or operator calculus over discrete structures as well as in applications in signal and image processing, inverse problems, and machine learning. This conference aims to bring together experts working in these and adjacent fields to exchange new ideas and create future lines of research and collaboration.

Organizers: Paula Cerejeiras, Yuri Grigoriev, Dmitrii Legatiuk, Sergey Popov

Scientific committee: Paula Cerejeiras, Fabrizio Colombo, Yuri Grigoriev, Uwe Kähler, Alexander Khludnev, Aleksander Kozhanov, Dmitrii Legatiuk, Nedyu Popivanov, Michael Ruzhansky, Irene Sabadini, Jens Wirth

Time: July 18 – July 22, 2022

Observation: The conference is planned from July 18 until July 22, 2022, so as to allow participation in the ICM 2022 in St. Petersburg.

Plenary speakers: Alexander Soldatov, Daniel Alpay, further to be announced

Yakutsk is the coldest large city in the world. Yakutsk is also the largest city located in continuous permafrost. Yakutsk is located in the Central Yakutian Lowland and is a major port on the Lena River.

The August 2021 edition of the Mexican magazine Revista D Escenarios dedicated an interview to the Colombian mathematician and currently a PhD student and a member of our Ghent Analysis and PDE Center, Duvan Cardona Sanchez. The Interview was prepared by the international press officer Alejandra Suárez Giraldo.

Duvan talked about some of his responsibilities as a young mathematician. He serves from 2020 as a ‘Par evaluador’ (academic reviewer) for the Colombian Science Ministry and for Colciencias (the group of validation of the scientific investigation in Colombia) in view of his experience as a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews, and his recognised achievements awarded by the Colombian Academy of Sciences.

In this interview Duvan talked about his career, his experience as a PhD student at Ghent University and the recognition of his work between the Latin-American mathematicians. Also, he commented about his experience as a lecturer in several universities in Colombia, before of starting his PhD and also, about the recent developments of his joint works with the Russian mathematician Michael Ruzhansky and the Colombian mathematician Julio Delgado. In particular, he remarked the amazing experience of working under the supervision of Michael Ruzhansky.

Duvan shared his point of view about the mathematical investigation in Colombia, and his role as a young mathematician who is consolidated in Latin-America as a young face of the mathematical research. He certainly dedicates his achievements to their mentors at Universidad del Valle, Los Andes University and at Ghent University.

Duvan’s mathematical work, before and after starting his doctorate, has caught the attention of the Latin American mathematical community, who now see in this young mathematician a source of inspiration for the future generations. Duvan also describes the amazing experience of working with fellows and colleagues from several countries, Kazakhstan, India, Italy, Colombia, China, etc. and the high level of the scientific research developed in the group of Michael Ruzhansky. According with Semilla Spirall Foundation,  Duvan Cardona is committed with the education of children in his homeland, he has donated economic resources from his doctoral scholarship, to the benefit of the educational processes of the native communities in  Sierra-Nevada. A remote place in Santa Marta-Colombia, where the population lives in situations of extreme poverty. In the past, when he was an undergraduate student, he worked during several years to the service of vulnerable populations in Buenaventura-Colombia, commented Pastora Velazquez, a community leader of Buenaventura.

The interview of Duvan Cardona can be downloaded in (Spanish) PDF at this link.

Dear Colleagues,

ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. By some people, it is also considered like a Facebook for scientists.

So we have created a ResearchGate page for our Methusalem/Odysseus Programme to advertise and share our research papers and related activities (conferences, posters, advertisements, etc.)