The diploma for foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was presented by the President of BAS, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva, to Prof. Yuri Tschinkel. The ceremony was held today in “Prof. Marin Drinov” Hall of the Academy. The Assembly of Academicians had elected Prof. Yuri Tschinkel from the USA as a foreign member of BAS in November 2024.
On the occasion of the awarding of the diploma and in the framework of the academic seminar “Current Problems of Science”, Prof. Yuri Tschinkel delivered a lecture on “Geometry of Numbers”.
Yuri Tschinkel is a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA. He is one of the leading contemporary mathematicians with outstanding contributions to the development of algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, and the geometric aspects of mathematical physics. Prof. Tschhinkel is a world-class mathematician who has established several new directions with tremendous impact on the development of modern mathematics in each of which he has had remarkable results.
Prof. Yuri Tschinkel is a member of the Supervisory Board of the International Center for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at BAS and has worked in collaboration with Bulgarian mathematicians and physicists. His worldwide renown and reputation as an outstanding scientist make him an indispensable ambassador for Bulgarian science and the Bulgarian scientific community in the world’s most prestigious scientific centres and scientific forums.
