The “Oscar” of arithmetic to Cristiana De Filippis (Unipr). Video, the report of Tg Parma

There are two Italians among the many ten winners of an important European prize for arithmetic, a kind of Oscar awarded by the European Arithmetic Congress that opens at the moment in Seville, Spain. Italy additionally wins one other recognition as a result of, along with Bologna, it has been chosen to host the following congress, scheduled for 2028. Organized each 4 years by the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the congress is the second largest arithmetic occasion on this planet and opened with the awarding of essentially the most coveted prizes in Europe on this self-discipline. The 2 Italian winners of the EMS prize, value 5 thousand euros, are Christian De Filippis, 31 years previous, who was born in Bari and teaches on the College of Parma, and Maria Colombo, 35 years previous, who was born in Luino (Varese) and teaches on the Polytechnic of Lausanne.

Thought of by Forbes journal as one of many 100 most profitable Italian girls of 2023, De Filippis can also be among the many most cited folks in world arithmetic of her technology, based on the database of the American Mathematical Society. In Seville she was awarded for her “distinctive contributions” to the Concept of elliptic regularity and the popularity provides to the lengthy sequence of awards she has gained up to now, such because the G-Analysis Prize acquired in Oxford in 2019 and the Iapichino Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei in 2020. Colombo was awarded “for her modern contributions to incompressible fluid dynamics, transport equations and the calculus of variations”. She additionally has an extended checklist of awards to her credit score, such because the Iciam Collatz Prize and the Peter Lax Award. Established in 1992, the Ems prize is taken into account the antechamber of the ‘Nobel’ of arithmetic, the Fields medal and has up to now been awarded to 13 girls. There have been six Italian winners in complete: along with De Filippis and Colombo, the prize was gained by Guido De Philippis (2016), Alessio Figalli and Corinna Ulcigrai (2012) and Stefano Bianchini (2004).