Although the 2020 conference of the society for the Foundations of Computational Mathematics had to be cancelled due to COVID restrictions, still, FoCM announced that its prestigeous Stephen Smale Prize has been awarded to Professor Afonso Bandeira at ETH Zürich, home to the individual Gömböc 1854.
Due to the cancellation of the conference there was substantial delay until Professor Bandeira could actually receive the Smale Prize, the insignia of which is a Gömböc with individual engraving. Our picture above shows Afonso Bandeira at ETH Zürich, holding the individual 2020 Smale Gömböc.
The production of the individual 2020 Smale Gömböc (90mm tall, made from ALMgSi-alloy) was supported by Mr Ottó Albrecht.