W. K. Clifford Prize 2014 --- 2014 Laureate
David Eelbode of the University of Antwerp (Belgium) has been selected as the recipient of the second W.K. Clifford Prize, for his outstanding mathematical research achievements in the fields of harmonic and Clifford analysis with applications in theoretical physics. He received his Ph.D. from Ghent University with a thesis titled "Clifford analysis on the hyperbolic unit all" (supervisor Franciscus Sommen). He has a beautiful and remarkable publishing record with papers in pure mathematics and theoretical physics journals. His chief contribution has to be situated within the subject of higher spin operators: these are generalizations of the classical Dirac operator from quantum mechanics, which can be used to model the equations describing higher spin elementary particles. The use of Clifford analysis techniques hereby has the advantage that the resulting function theory can be studied in orthogonal spaces of any dimension and any signature. This topic is also intimately connected to the representation theory for both the conformal Lie algebra and certain transvector algebras. Often co-operating with mathematics centers of excellence around the world, he is a real ambassador for mathematics through Clifford algebra, Clifford analysis and group representation theory.
For details see http://wkcliffordprize.org/2014-tartu-laureate.html .
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W. K. Clifford Prize 2017 Ghent --- CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Candidates for the W.K. Clifford Prize may be nominated by anyone, including the candidates themselves, but excluding the members of the jury. The age limit of the candidates is 35, the 35th birthday not having occurred before the 1st of January of the ICCA-year considered. A former W.K. Clifford Prize laureate cannot be nominated again.
Nomination is done by sending a nomination letter to the Secretary, together with the candidate's CV, a description of his scientific work and main research contributions, a list of four referees, and a recommendation letter; this recommendation letter may be written by one of the referees on the aforementioned list. The nominating person, not being the candidate, may figure on this list of referees and, consequently, is also entitled to write the recommendation letter. Members of the jury cannot act as referee.
Nominations for the W.K. Clifford Prize - 2017 - ICCA 11 - Gent (Belgium) are due 30 September 2016. Please send the necessary documents electronically to the Secretary F. Brackx at the following address: secretary(at)wkcliffordprize.org.
For details see http://wkcliffordprize.org/2017-gent.html .
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