Christopher Schafhauser wins the Barbara and Jarosław Zemanek Prize
The 2024 Jaroslav and Barbara Zemanek Prize in functional analysis has been awarded to Christopher Schafhauser.
The Jaroslav and Barbara Zemanek Prize in functional analysis with emphasis on operator theory for 2024 is awarded to Christopher Schafhauser (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) for his outstanding contributions to the classification and structure theory of C*-algebras, particularly to the Elliott classification programme. The jury emphasized his outstanding results on AF-embeddability of the UCT C*-algebras and his original and innovative approach to the classification of simple nuclear C*-algebras, which led to breakthrough in the field.
Following a generous donation from the Zemanek family, the annual J. and B. Zemanek Prize was founded by the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy
of Sciences (IM PAN) in March 2018, to encourage the research in functional analysis, operator theory, and related topics. The Prize is established to promote young mathematicians, under 35 years of age, who have made important contributions to these areas.
The awarding ceremony will take place at IM PAN, Warsaw, in the Fall of 2024. More detailed information about the Prize can be found on the webpage
https://www.impan.pl/en/events/awards/b-and-j-zemanek-prize.
