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2012 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The monograph must be original, unpublished and must not be subject to any previous copyright agreement, written in English, and of at least 150 pages. 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 of the series.
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 2012.

Submission of monographs and information

Monographs should preferably be typeset in TeX. Authors should send all documents in digital format 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 2nd, 2011 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
Alan Weinstein
University of California at Berkeley
Núria Fagella
Universitat de Barcelona
Joseph Oesterlé
Université Paris 6
Joan Verdera
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The 2011 Prize winner

2011 Jayce Getz, McGill University, Montreal, and Mark Goresky, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Hilbert Modular Forms with Coefficients in Intersection Homology and Quadratic Base Change

This is a research monograph which oozes with interesting mathematics, explaining deep phenomena in number theory and algebraic geometry using geometric/topological methods, notably intersection homology. This builds on celebrated work by F. Hirzebruch and D. Zagier. It presents a pleasant equilibrium between the survey/monography part and the research part: On the one hand it contains interesting results which appear here for the first time, but it also has several chapters which introduce the reader to the different subjects needed to understand the main results.

This monograph will be published by Birkhäuser Verlag in the series Progress in Mathematics.

Winners from the previous editions

2010	Carlo Mantegazza, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Lectures Notes on Mean Curvature Flow
2009	Tim Browning, Bristol University Quantitative Arithmetic of Projective Varieties
2008	Luis Barreira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa Dimension and Recurrence in Hyperbolic Dynamics
2007	Rosa M. Miró-Roig, Universitat de Barcelona Lectures on Determinantal Ideals (Progress in Mathematics n.264, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
2006	Xiaonan Ma, École Polytechnique Palaiseau and George Marinescu, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Holomorphic Morse inequalities and Bergman kernels (Progress in Mathematics n.254, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
2005	Antonio Ambrosetti, and Andrea Malchiodi , SISSA, Italy Perturbation Methods and Semiliniar Elliptic Problems on Rn (Progress in Mathematics n.240, Birkhäuser-Verlag.) José Seade, UNAM, Mexico On the topology of isolated singularities in analytic spaces (Progress in Mathematics n.241, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
2004	Guy David, Université de Paris-Sud Singular sets of minimizers for the Mumford-Shah functional (Progress in Mathematics n.233, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
2003	Fuensanta Andreu-Vaillo and José M. Mazón, Universitat de València and Vicent Casellas, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Parabolic Quasilinear Equations Minimizing Linear Growth Functionals (Progress in Mathematics n.223, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
2002	Alexander Lubotzky and Dan Segal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and All Souls College, Oxford Subgroup Growth (Progress in Mathematics n.212, Birkhäuser-Verlag.) André Unterberger, Université de Reims Automorphic Pseudodifferential Analysis and Higher-level Weyl Calculi (Progress in Mathematics, n. 209, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
2001	Martin Golubitsky and Ian Stewart, University of Houston, Warwick University The Symmetry Perspective (Progress in Mathematics, n. 200, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
2000	Juan-Pablo Ortega and Tudor Ratiu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Hamiltonian Singular Reduction (Progress in Mathematics n.222, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
1999	Patrick Dehornoy, Université de Caen Braids and Self-Distributivity (Progress in Mathematics, n. 192, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
1998	Juan J. Morales-Ruiz, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Differential Galois Theory and Non-integrability of Hamiltonian Systems (Progress in Mathematics, n.179, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
1997	A. Böttcher, TU Chemnitz and Y. I. Karlovich, Marine Hydrophysical Institute Carleson Curves, Munchenhoupt Weights, and Toeplitz Operators (Progress in Mathematics, n. 154, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
1996	V. Kumar Murty and M. Ram Murty, University of Toronto Non-Vanishing of L-Functions and Applications (Progress in Mathematics n. 157, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
1995	Not awarded
1994	Klaus Schmidt, Warwick University Dynamical Systems of Algebraic Origin (Progress in Mathematics n.128, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)
1993	Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures (Progress in Mathematics n.125, Birkhäuser-Verlag.)

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