Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin takes part in a solemn ceremony of handing in the Lobachevsky Award for 2019
On December 2, at Kazan Federal University, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a solemn ceremony of handing in the Lobachevsky Award for 2019.
The prize is awarded every two years. Over 20 works were submitted to the contest for the medal and award named after Nikolay Lobachevsky. As many as 12 nominees were admitted for the vote. The international jury included 17 leading scientists from Russia, the USA, Germany, France and Switzerland.
By secret ballot, as many as 9 members of the jury awarded Daniel T. Wise, a Canadian mathematician, a specialist in geometric theory of groups and 3-manifolds, a professor of mathematics at McGill University (Montreal).
Wise became a winner of Lobachevsky Award and Medal for proving Haken's famous hypothesis.
On behalf of Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Tatarstan Government, Pesoshin greeted representatives of the academic community, employees and students of Kazan Federal University.
He also said that at the initiative of the Kazan Federal University and with the support of the leadership of Tatarstan the year 2017 was the Year of Lobachevsky in the republic. The year also became the Year of the revival of the Lobachevsky Award and Medal – one of the oldest and most honorable awards in this area and dating back to 1897.
Pesoshin said that the jury recognized the selection process was not easy in the current year.
Professor of Canadian McGill University Daniel Wise became a winner and I congratulate him and Kazan Federal University on this significant event,” Tatarstan Prime Minister said.