The Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize

2010 Edition

Conditions

• The prize will be awarded for a mathematical monograph of an expository nature presenting the latest developments in an active area of research in Mathematics, in wich the applicant has made important contributions.
   
• The monograph must be original, written in English, and of at least 150 pages. The monograph must not be subject to any previous copyright agreement. In exceptional cases, manuscripts in other languages may be considered.
   
• The prize, amounting to 15.000 euros, is provided by the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation. The winning monograph will be published in Birkhäuser Verlag’s series “Progress in Mathematics”, subject to the usual regulations concerning copyright and author’s rights.
   
• The submission of a monograph implies the acceptance of all of the above conditions.
   
• The name of the prize-winner will be announced in Barcelona in April, 2010.

Submission of monographs and information

Monographs should preferably be typeset in TeX. Authors should send a pdf file of the manuscript to ffsb@iec.cat and a hard copy of the manuscript together with a letter to the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation. Submissions should be sent before December 4th, 2009 to the following address:

Fundació Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer
Carrer del Carme, 47
E-08001 Barcelona
a/e: ffsb@iec.cat

Scientific Committee

The winner of the prize will be proposed by a Scientific Committee consisting of:

• Alejandro Adem
  University of British Columbia
   
• Hyman Bass
  University of Michigan
   
• Núria Fagella
  Universitat de Barcelona
   
• Joseph Oesterlé
  Université Paris 6
   
• Joan Verdera
  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
   

Contact address
ffsb@iec.cat

The 2009 Prize winner

2009	Tim Browning, Bristol University Quantitative Arithmetic of Projective Varieties

This This book is about computing asymptotic estimates for the number of rational points in algebraic varieties defined over Q that have infinitely many rational points. This is done using methods coming from analytic number theory (like the Hardy–Littlewood circle method) and some techniques coming from arithmetic algebraic geometry (the universal torsor, for instance). The book contains a lot of examples and exercises, as well as a detailed discussion of the conjectures in the subject, like Manin conjectures and the dimension growth conjecture.
The book will be published in Birkhäuser series Progress in Mathematics.

Winners from the previous editions