The second meeting of the project ``Securing safe drinking water distribution'' SafeCREW (https://safecrew.org/), funded by the European Union within the Horizon Europe program, took place in Milan on 10, 11 and 12th May. SafeCREW aims to develop tools and guidelines for disinfected and non-disinfected drinking water supply systems; the project focuses on disinfection process, its consequences, the minimization of disinfectant dosages and the formation of disinfection by-products.SafeCREW partnership includes 11 European organizations in Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Spain. Politecnico di Milano brings in SafeCREW multidisciplinary skills in environmental engineering, chemistry, statistics and machine learning from four departments: DICA (prof. Manuela Antonelli), DCMC (prof. Carlo Punta), DMAT (prof. Ilenia Epifani) and DEIB (prof. Francesco Trovò).

Filippo Gazzola and Gianmarco Sperone have been awarded with the 2022 edition of the “Fichera Prize”, granted by the Italian Mathematical Union “to the authors of a scientific publication of great value in the field of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, preferably in sectors cultivated by Professor Gaetano Fichera”. The awarded publication is Steady Navier–Stokes Equations in Planar Domains with Obstacle and Explicit Bounds for Unique Solvability, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 238, 1283–1347 (2020).

The prize will be officially delivered on the morning of September 4th 2023, at the opening ceremony of the XXII Congress of the Italian Mathematical Union to be held in Pisa.

Lunedì 17 aprile 2023, ore 16.30, in Sala Letteratura della Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Palazzo Brera, in Via Brera 28

il Professore JAMES MAYNARD (University of Oxford)

parlerà su    APPROXIMATING REAL NUMBERS BY RATIONALS

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

James Maynard is a brilliant young mathematician whose fundamental contributions to development of analytic number theory have gained him well deserved and ever increasing acclaim. In the same year (2013) as completing his Ph.D at the University of Oxford, under the direction of Roger Heath-Brown, he published an independent proof of Yitang Zhang's theorem about the existence of infinity many primes with bounded gap.

After this first and already fundamental contribution to the theory of prime numbers,  Maynard rapidly produced a sequence of acclaimed results in this arena: in 2014 he resolved another longstanding conjecture of Erdös on large gaps between primes (which earned him the highest valued Erdös prize to date): in 2016 he showed that, for any given decimal digit, there are infinitely many prime numbers that avoiding that digit in their decimal expansion, and in 2019, together with Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, Maynard proved the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture.

This rapid sequence of achievements have earned Maynard numerous awards, including the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize (2014), the Whitehead Prize (2015), the EMS Prize (2016), and finally the Fields Medal 2022 for "contributions to analytic number theory, which have led to major advances in the understanding of the structure of prime numbers and in Diophantine approximation".  Maynard is currently a Fellow of St. Johns College and Research Professor of Mathematics, a position he has held since 2017. These achievements are especially impressive in light of his youth.

In collaborazione con il : SEMINARIO MATEMATICO E FISICO DI MILANO

Organizzazione:

C.D. Pagani e B. Ruf - Istituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere

K.R. Payne - Dipartimento di Matematica "F. Enriques", Università degli Studi di Milano

F. E. G. Cipriani - Dipartimento di Matematica "F. Brioschi", Politecnico di Milano

T. Weigel - Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Milano Bicocca

G. Savarè - Department of Decision Sciences, Università Bocconi Milano.

The Department of Mathematics of Politecnico di Milano has been ranked 34th worldwide for Mathematics in the prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023, the global ranking of the best universities by subject area. The excellent result was achieved with an improvement of 25 positions compared to the 2022 rankings. At national level, the department is confirmed in first place for the second year in a row.

Professor Filippo Gazzola, full professor of Mathematical Analysis in the Department of Mathematics, became a member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of the European Mathematical Society." This journal covers all research topics in the field of mathematics and is one of the most prestigious mathematical publications worldwide.