B. Sz.-Nagy Medal

Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Medal

Year 2005

The Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged is pleased to announce hereby that the Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Medal for the year 2005 has been awarded to Tsuyoshi Ando, Professor of the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Tsuyoshi Ando, Professor of the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

Tsuyoshi Ando achieved significant, deep results in a wide range of mathematics, including measure theory, ordered Banach spaces, operator theory and matrix analysis. He has contributed ten definitive research papers to the Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum. His celebrated theorem on the existence of unitary dilations of pairs of commuting contractions was also published here 42 years ago.

The Medal was presented to Tsuyoshi Ando at 11:00, July 12, 2006 in the Bolyai Institute. On this occasion he delivered a lecture ``Spectrum and Numerical Range".