Prizes

Barcelona Dynamical Systems Prize

An international prize, offered by the Catalan Mathematical Society, under the patronage of Professor Carles Simó, to the author or authors of an article or research work written in English, in the area of dynamical systems. It is held every two years, and its first edition was in 2015.

Works in both continuous and discrete dynamical systems, whether finite or infinite dimensional, will be considered. The following aspects will be evaluated:

  • Global themes rather than particular descriptions of dynamics
  • New theoretical approaches
  • New methodologies and computational aspects, both numerical and symbolic
  • Relevant applications to any scientific or technological field

In order to achieve these characteristics, previous works by the author(s) may be considered when submission is requested. The committee will consist of five researchers from the area or related areas proposed by the SCM, and its composition will not be made public until the final resolution has been reached.

The prize amount is four thousand euros (€4,000), subject to applicable taxes. The prize may be declared void. Participation implies acceptance of the prize conditions.  

For more information, contact Amadeu Delshams.

Current call

4th edition – 2023 Call

The Barcelona Dynamical Systems Prize 2023 is an international prize offered by the Catalan Society of Mathematics, under the sponsorship of Prof. Carles Simó, to the author or authors of an article in the area of Dynamical Systems, published between February 1, 2019 and January 31, 2023.

PRIZE RESOLUTION

Awardees:
Massimiliano Berti, Alberto Maspero and Paolo Ventura,
authors of the article «Full description of Benjamin-Feir instability of Stokes waves in deep water«, Invent. Math.
230 (2022), no. 2, 651–711.

Jury: 
Vadim Kaloshin, Maria Jose Pacifico, Susanna Terracini, Dmitry Treschev and Amie Wilkinson.
Secretary: Amadeu Delshams (UPC).

 

The next call will be announced during 2025.

 

For the 2023 call:
BDSP2023 Form. 

Prize history

4th edition – 2023 Call

Awardees:
Massimiliano Berti, Alberto Maspero and Paolo Ventura,
authors of the article «Full description of Benjamin-Feir instability of Stokes waves in deep water«, Invent. Math.
230 (2022), no. 2, 651–711.

Jury: 
Vadim Kaloshin, Maria Jose Pacifico, Susanna Terracini, Dmitry Treschev and Amie Wilkinson.
Secretary: Amadeu Delshams (UPC).

3rd edition – 2019 Call

Awardees:
Vadim Kaloshin and Alfonso Sorrentino,
 authors of the article «On the local Birkhoff conjecture for convex billiards», Annals of Mathematics 188 (1):315–380, 2018

Jury: 
Alain Chenciner (Observatoire de Paris), Freddy Dumortier (University of Hasselt) and Daniel Peralta (ICMAT, Madrid). Secretary: Amadeu Delshams (UPC).

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2nd edition – 2017 Call

Awardees:
Jordi-Lluís Figueras, Àlex Haro and Alejandro Luque, 
authors of the article «Rigorous Computer-Assisted Application of KAM Theory: A Modern Approach», Found Comput Math (2016). doi:10.1007/s10208-016-9339-3.

Jury: 
John Guckenheimer (Cornell University), Rick Moeckel (University of Minnesota), Anatoly Neishtadt (Loughborough University), Enrique Pujals (IMPA) • Robert Roussarie (Université de Bourgogne). Secretary: Amadeu Delshams (UPC).

Resolution

1st edition – 2015 Call

Ex aequo winners:
Alberto Enciso and Daniel Peralta-Salas, 
authors of the paper «Existence of knotted vortex tubes in steady Euler flows», Acta Math. 214 (2015), no. 1, 61–134;

Marcel Guardia, Pau Martin and Tere M. Seara,
authors of the paper «Oscillatory motions for the restricted planar circular three body problem», Invent. Math., published online 11 April 2015, pp 1-76.

Jury: 
Henk Broer (University of Groningen), Robert L. Devaney (Boston University), Yu.S. Ilyashenko (Cornell University), Richard Montgomery (University of California, Santa Cruz), Marcelo Viana (IMPA). Secretary: Amadeu Delshams (UPC).

Resolution

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