B. Sz.-Nagy Medal

Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Medal

Year 2007

The Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged is pleased to announce hereby that the Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Medal for the year 2007 has been awarded to

Hari Bercovici, Professor of the Indiana University, Bloomington, U. S. A..

Hari Bercovici has contributed fourteen definitive research papers to the Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum, enriching the Sz.-Nagy--Foias theory of contractions with beautiful, fundamental theorems.

The Medal was presented to Hari Bercovici at 15:00, June 25, 2008 in the Bolyai Institute. On this occasion he delivered a lecture ``On the eigenvalues of a sum of compact operators".