The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) is not only the leading institution of Latin America, it is also consistently ranked among the world elite of the top 100 universities. The physics department of UBA, named after renowned physicists J.J. Giambiagi , decided to put the individual Gömböc carrying the year of the adoption of this name on permanent exhibit. Home…
Founded in 1957 by world-renowned Russian mathematican Sergey Sobolev, the institute bearing his name is Siberia‘s foremost mathematical center as well as one of the excellent research institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Located in the Akademgorodok district of Novosibirsk, the institute’s wall proudly displays a series of plaques honoring the memory of its most famous past professors. Carrying the year…
Founded in 1837 and ranked in the top 1% worldwide, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is the oldest contemporary university of the Eastern Mediterranean region and Europe’s largest university. The university’s excellent Mathematical Department received Gömböc 1837, carrying the year of foundation of the university, as a gift from the Hungarian Embassy in Athens. Gömböc 1837 was handed over…
The world’s two oldest named professorial positions are the Savilian chairs of astronomy and geometry at the University of Oxford. Founded by Sir Henry Savile in 1619, these chairs have been occupied by a row of world-class scientists. The celebration of the 400th anniversary of the foundation included a conference organized by the British Socitey for the History of Mathematics. One of the speakers, Dame Frances Kirwan,…
The University of Heidelberg, founded in 1386, is Germany’s oldest and most renowned institution of higher education which is constantly ranked among the top 3 universities of the country. In the frame of the Excellence initiative run by Germany’s national reserach fund, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, two of the excellence clusters of Heidelberg have been recently founded. One of these…
Founded in 1636 in Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard University has among all universities both the highest number of Nobel Laureates (158) and Fields-Medalists (18) among its alumni, past and current faculty. Regularly leading rankings, Harvard is a synonym for excellence worldwide. Gömböc 1636, carrying the university’s year of foundation as serial number is on display at the Mathematics Department, located in the building of the Science Center.…
Canada’s top institution of higher education, the University of Toronto (ranking among the best 30 worldwide) decided to put the individual Gömböc 1827 on permanent exhibit, carrying its year of foundation as serial number. Gömböc 1827 is on display in the renowned model collection of the Department of Mathematics (ranked on its own right among the top 20 worldwide).…
One of Italy’s oldest and highest ranked universities, the University of Pisa decided to put the individual Gömböc carrying its year of foundation, 1343, on permanent exhibit. The showcase is hosted by the Department of Earth Sciences, the faculty of which has been involved in Gömböc-inspired geomorphological research for several years. The Gömböc was also welcomed by Professor Marco Abate from the Department…
The University of California, founded in 1868, is a public university system in the state of California. Its flagship institution is the University of California at Berkeley, ranked consistently among the world’s top 10 universities. During its 150-year history, Berkeley had 22 Nobel-prize winning professors. As of October 2018, Berkeley alumni, faculty members and researchers include 107 Nobel laureates, 25 Turing…
IMPA (Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada) is the most important Brazilian research institute in mathematics and it is a center of worldwide reputation. Stephen Smale was among its visitors and faculty includes renowned scientists like Enrique Pujals or Jacob Palis. Director Marcelo Viana (shown above with Gömböc 2018), recipient of the ICTP Ramanujan Prize and the Guggenheim Fellowship is not only an internationally recognized authority on…
