Our mission

Juliusz P. Schauder Center for Nonlinear Studies was founded in 1991 at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The center's mission is supporting mathematical research in the field of nonlinear analysis and its applications as well as intiating scientific relations between different research communities.

The current main activities are the following:

  • publishing a high class scientific journal TOPOLOGICAL METHODS IN NONLINEAR ANALYSIS,
  • awarding a J. P. Schauder medal for scientific achievements and contributios to nonlinear anaysis (including the appointment of a medal jury),
  • organizing lectures, conferences and scientific workshops devoted to nonlinear analysis in a wide sense,
  • publishing the LECTURE NOTES IN NONLINEAR ANALYSIS series,
  • supporting mathematically talented young people.


The center activities are supported by the Scientific Council appointed by Rector of Nicolaus Copernicus University for the time of three years.

News and Events

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The 3rd edition of the J. P. Schauder's Prize for young mathematicians competition has started

By the decision of the Scientific Council, the third edition of the competition for the Juliusz Paweł Schauder Prize for young mathematicians has been opened. According to the competition regulations, the Prize is an individual award granted for achievements in the field of nonlinear mathematical analysis. Candidates for the competition can be nominated by members of the Center's Council or other persons with established scientific authority.

The competition jury consists of:

  • Aleksander Ćwiszewski (chairman) (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun)
  • Tomasz Cieślak (Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • Marek Galewski (Lodz Technical University)
  • Grzegorz Graff (Gdańsk Technical University)
  • Piotr Kalita (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)
  • Jarosław Mederski (Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences).

Applications for the Prize, along with justifications, can be submitted to the Center until the end of December 2025 at the following address: Juliusz Paweł Schauder University Center for Nonlinear Studies, ul. Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, POLAND

or electronically to the email address: cbn@umk.pl.


The 6th edition of the J. P. Schauder's Medal Competition has started

By the decision of the Scientific Council, the sixth edition of the competition for the Juliusz Paweł Schauder Medal has been opened. According to the competition regulations, the Medal is an individual award granted for achievements in the field of nonlinear mathematical analysis. Candidates for the competition can be nominated by members of the Center's Council or other persons with established scientific authority.

The competition jury consists of:

  • Piotr Oprocha (chairman) (AGH University)
  • Piotr Biler (University of Wrocław)
  • Piotr Gwiazda (University of Warsaw, Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • Joanna Janczewska (Gdańsk Technical University)

   and former laureates:

  • Jean Mawhin
  • Paul Rabinowitz
  • Edward Norman Dancer
  • Susanna Terracini
  • Thomas Bartsch.

Applications for the Medal, along with justifications, can be submitted to the Center until the end of December 2025 at the following address: Juliusz Paweł Schauder University Center for Nonlinear Studies, ul. Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, POLAND

or electronically to the email address: cbn@umk.pl.

The announcement of the competition results is planned for the end of May 2026, and the Medal awarding ceremony will be held in 2027.

We warmly invite you to submit applications!


TMNA among the best

The journal Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis, published by the Center, is once again among the best journals published by Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun according to the SCImago Scientific Journal Ranking. More about journals published at UMK can be found here.


Combinatorial Topological Dynamics Workshop

A Combinatorial Topological Dynamics workshop will be held May 26-30, 2025, at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, on the potential relationship between topological data analysis and topological dynamics. There will be several well-known speakers, in particular Herbert Edelsbrunner and Thomas Wanner (see attached poster for details). Here is the link to the website:

https://cotodyn.matinf.uj.edu.pl/

The organizers have some funds to partially cover the costs for doctoral and master's students, see for details. Of course the workshop is for all interested, but the number of places is limited.


EMS Prize for Jacek Jendrej and Adam Kanigowski

We are pleased to inform that two young Polish mathematicians, Professors Jacek Jendrej and Adam Kanigowski, have been awarded by the European Mathematical Society (EMS) during the IX European Congress of Mathematics held in Seville.
Both laureates are connected with the Juliusz Schauder Center and Toruń. Jacek Jendrej is a member of the Editorial Board of our journal TMNA and a recipient of the first J. P. Schauder Prize for young mathematicians. Adam Kanigowski completed his individual studies and wrote his master's thesis under supervision of prof. Wojciech Kryszewski at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and he obtained his Ph.D. at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN); his supervisor was Prof. Mariusz Lemańczyk.
Since 1992, the European Mathematical Society has been awarding prizes for outstanding contributions to mathematical research. These prizes can be awarded to scientists who were no older than 35 at the time nominations began a year earlier.
The EMS Prize was awarded to Jacek Jendrej for his work on the soliton resolution conjecture and the problem of two-soliton collision for certain types of wave maps. Jacek Jendrej is a graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw (MIMUW) and currently works at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. His research interests focus on partial differential equations. He has published in numerous scientific journals, including "Analysis & PDE," "American Journal of Mathematics," "Duke Mathematical Journal," and "Inventiones Mathematicae." Among the awards Jacek Jendrej has received so far are the Prix Claude-Antoine Peccot, the aforementioned J. P. Schauder Prize, and the prestigious ERC Starting Grant.
By awarding Adam Kanigowski, the EMS recognized his outstanding contribution to the spectral classification and mixing properties of slowly chaotic dynamical systems. In his research, Adam Kanigowski deals with dynamical systems and ergodic theory, as well as the interaction of these fields with number theory, geometry, and probability theory.  He is a laureate of the Polish Mathematical Society Award for Young Mathematicians, the International Stefan Banach Prize, the Kazimierz Kuratowski Award, and the IM PAN Award for outstanding scientific achievements in mathematics.


Juliusz Paweł Schauder

Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis

Lecture Notes in Nonlinear Analysis

J. P. Schauder Medal

Juliusz Schauder Prize for young mathematicians