Announcements

MDPI will attend the 21st International Congress of Mathematical Physics (ICMP). We invite researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us. 

The 21st International Congress of Mathematical Physics (ICMP) will take place in Strasbourg, France. It is planned from 1 to 6 July 2024, at the Palais des Congrès, the main conference center of the city near the European Parliament that is well connected with the historical city center. The International Congress on Mathematical Physics, on its three year cycle, is the most important conference of the International Association of Mathematical Physics, currently presided over by Kasia Rejzner. It will be a major event, where new results and future challenges will be discussed, illustrating the richness and vitality of mathematical physics. 

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the conference:

• Mathematics;
• Entropy;
• Plasma;
• AppliedMath;
• Axioms;
• Physchem;
• Symmetry;
• QuBS;
• Physics.

If you are planning to attend the above conference, please do not hesitate to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://icmp2024.org/.

In acknowledgment of the groundbreaking achievements of Professor Tu Youyou, the Nobel laureate credited with the discovery of artemisinin, MDPI is proud to announce the Tu Youyou Award. This award, inaugurated in 2016, seeks to honor scholars who excel in the fields of natural products chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

Prize:

• CHF 100,000 in total (If there is more than one winner, the prize will be divided equally amongst the winners);
• An award medal for each winner.

Who should be nominated?

• Scientists with outstanding achievements and contributions in the fields of natural products chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

Who can submit a nomination?

• Academic research institutes
• Universities
• Academic societies

Any personal nominations are not accepted.

How do I submit a nomination?
Candidates’ institutional affiliations need to submit their nominations for final candidates to the Tu Youyou Award Team directly by email after internal screening, and each institution can only nominate a maximum of two candidates for each edition of the Tu Youyou Award. Please note that the nominations cannot be modified once they are submitted and confirmed by the Tu Youyou Award Team.

Required nomination materials:
Nomination Form (Download)

Schedule:
Nomination deadline: 31 December 2024;
Winner announcement: 30 April 2025.

Contact:
Tu Youyou Award Team (tuyouyouaward@mdpi.com)

More information can be found on the Tu Youyou Award official website. For any inquiries, do not hesitate to contact the Tu Youyou Award Team.

MDPI Romania sponsored four events over the month of April, contributing author training sessions to each event.

The NutriSciLabs 2024 conference was held at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy on 12 April 2024. Organized by the Association of Students from the Faculty of Pharmacy Studies, the conference aimed to enhance students’ academic writing and research skills, and bolster their confidence in participating in the academic world. Ioana Paunescu, journal relations specialist for MDPI Romania, led the training session. Paunescu first outlined MDPI’s history and core values, then explained academic writing techniques, ethics, and similarity percentages. The presentation covered the entire editorial process, highlighting the amount of attention paid to details throughout manuscript processing. Paunescu also discussed common errors that authors make while writing, and how to avoid such errors.

On 13 April 2024, the NextGEN 2.0 Student Conference took place at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. NextGen Healthcare organized this event with the university’s European Students’ Society to discuss European and international current affairs. MDPI Romania contributed an author training session called Steps of the Publication Process. Irina Codruta Zaharia, journal relations specialist, began the session with a general introduction of MDPI before diving into different article types, different layout formats, possible journals to submit to, the MDPI submission checklist, and the MDPI editorial process. By explaining the fundamentals of writing and publishing academic papers, Zaharia imparted valuable industry knowledge to the curious minds present. Participants were eager to engage with Zaharia in the subsequent Q&A session.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the International Conference “Students for Students” has long been a gathering place for undergraduate and postgraduate students of all nationalities to present their work and exchange ideas with each other. This year’s conference was held on 18 April 2024, with MDPI Romania contributing an author training session called The World of Open Access. Key speakers included Dr. Norbert Kiss from MDPI Romania and Prof. Dragos Horvath from Strasbourg University. Dr. Kiss discussed the history of open access, differences between open access publishing and traditional publishing, and implications for open access in the future. Attendees expressed keen interest in the subject, approaching Dr. Kiss with questions about academic publishing as well as his career trajectory.

Most recently, on 26 April 2024, MDPI Romania sponsored the National Symposium of Students from Geology and Geophysics Faculties. The AAPG Students Chapter at the Babes-Bolyai University organized this event as an opportunity for geology students from all Romanian universities to present their work and confer with other researchers. Dr. Kiss gave his lecture The World of Open Access at this event as well.

MDPI is thankful to all the participants, speakers, and organizers who attended these events. Through their enthusiasm and dedication, these events were great successes.

MDPI will be attending the International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications in Science and Engineering (ICMASC'24), which will be held from 20 to 22 June 2024, in Porto, Portugal.

The conference aims to bring together researchers in every discipline of applied mathematics, science, engineering, industry, and technology, to discuss the development of new mathematical models, theories, and applications that contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge and practice.

The main topics include the following:

• Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations: Theory and Applications
• Mathematical Modelling involving time fractional ODEs and PDEs
• Integral Equations and Integral Transforms
• Uncertainty Quantification in Mathematical Modelling
• Control Theory, Optimization and their Applications
• Probability, Statistics and Numerical Analysis
• Inverse Problems: Modelling and Simulation
• Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering
• Fractional Dynamic Systems and Applications
• Fractional Signals and Systems
• Singularities Analysis and Integral Representations for Fractional Differential Systems
• Special Functions Related to Fractional Calculus
• Applications in Biological Systems and Cancer Dynamics
• Applications to Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Electromagnetism, Electrochemistry, finance and Economics, Fractional Earth Science, lmage Processing, Robotics, Automatic Control, Mechanics, Viscoelasticity, Thermal Engineering
• History of Fractional Calculus
• Mathematics Education

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Mathematics;
• AppliedMath;
• Axioms;
• Symmetry.

If you are considering attending this conference, we warmly welcome you to visit our booth and interact with our representatives. We are eager to meet you in person and assist you with any queries you may have.

For more information about the conference, please visit the official website at https://www2.isep.ipp.pt/icmasc/.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Mathematics 2022 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022, in Mathematics (ISSN: 2227-7390) were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, six winners were selected. 

Articles:
First Prize: CHF 800 plus the chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review. 

“Regression Analysis of Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Structures of Publicly Listed British Firms”
by Elmina Homapour, Larry Su, Fabio Caraffini and Francisco Chiclana
Mathematics 2022, 10(7), 1119; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10071119

Second Prize: CHF 500 plus the chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review.

“Fractional Calculus and Time-Fractional Differential Equations: Revisit and Construction of a Theory”
by Masahiro Yamamoto
Mathematics 2022, 10(5), 698; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10050698

Third Prize: CHF 300 plus the chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review.

“Practical Exponential Stability of Impulsive Stochastic Food Chain System with Time-Varying Delays”
by Yuxiao Zhao and Linshan Wang
Mathematics 2023, 11(1), 147; https://doi.org/10.3390/math11010147 

“Fractional Differential Equations with the General Fractional Derivatives of Arbitrary Order in the Riemann–Liouville Sense”
by Yuri Luchko
Mathematics 2022, 10(6), 849; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10060849

Reviews: 

Second Prize: CHF 500 plus the chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review. 

“Survey on Synthetic Data Generation, Evaluation Methods and GANs”
by Alvaro Figueira and Bruno Vaz
Mathematics 2022, 10(15), 2733; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10152733

Third Prize: CHF 300 plus the chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review.

“The Discrete Dipole Approximation: A Review”
by Patrick Christian Chaumet
Mathematics 2022, 10(17), 3049; https://doi.org/10.3390/math10173049

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Mathematics 2022 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Mathematics.

Mathematics Editorial Office

It is our great pleasure to announce the winners of the 2023 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. This award is presented to Ph.D. students or recently qualified Ph.D. graduates who have produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.  

This year’s award has been granted to: 

“High Performance Multidimensional Iterative Processes for Solving Nonlinear Equations”
by Paula Triguero Navarro, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain 

“The Generalization of the Vehicle Routing Problem: Mathematical Model, Ontology, Algorithms, Fitness Landscape Analysis and Applications”
by Anita Agárdi, University of Miskolc, Hungary 

Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and the opportunity to publish one paper free of charge in Mathematics (ISSN: 2227-7390) following peer review (offer valid for one year).

On behalf of the evaluation committee, we would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and thank the award committee for voting and helping with this award.  

Mathematics Editorial Office

MDPI will be attending the 35th Irish Signals and Systems Conference in Belfast, UK, which will take place from 13 to 14 June 2024. The conference focuses on digital signal processing, control systems, communications and related fields of ICT, and encompasses algorithms and system modeling, design, and implementation for a broad range of applications.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Applied Sciences;
• Electronics;
• Drones;
• Mathematics;
• Network;
• Signals;
• Smart Cities;
• Systems;
• Telecom.

If you are attending the conference, please visit our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://issc.ie/index.html.

Conference: 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2024)
Organization: IEEE Information Theory Society
Date: 7–12 July 2024
Place: Athens, Greece

MDPI journals will be attending ISIT 2024 as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Athens, Greece, from 7 to 12 July 2024.

ISIT 2024 will feature contributed papers, tutorial sessions, social, mentoring, and outreach events, a simultaneous chess exhibition and chess talks, a data set competition (Bits&Bots), and, for the first time this year, satellite workshops. It will also feature outstanding plenary speakers: Andrew Barron (2024 Shannon Lecturer), Venkatesan Guruswami, Emina Soljanin, Rebecca Willett, and Gregory Wornell.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Entropy;
• BDCC;
• Information;
• Mathematics;
• Electronics;
• Future Internet;
• Computation;
• Cryptography;
• Data;
• Digital;
• JCP;
• Network;
• Symmetry;
• Informatics.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://2024.ieee-isit.org/.

A range of MDPI journals will be attending the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference in Chicago, USA, from 28 to 31 of May 2024.

This conference will be hosted by The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois, with an organization led by Professors Paolo Gardoni and Arif Masud. The event will provide a forum to discuss the fundamental advances in engineering mechanics, bringing together scholars from around the world to exchange and disseminate the most recent developments in engineering mechanics and probabilistic methods across wide-ranging fields related to the discipline of civil engineering, including industry applications of engineering mechanics.

This conference will attract a significant number of people from academia, research institutions, and industrial organizations. The symposium, including several networking activities, would cover the most up-to-date topics related to process systems engineering. Presentations given by world-renowned plenary and keynote speakers will offer a cutting-edge to the symposium.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Buildings;
• Fluids;
• CivilEng;
• Applied Sciences;
• Infrastructures;
• Mathematics;
• JETA;
• Modelling.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to engage with us at our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.emi-conference.org/ or contact the Buildings Editorial Office.

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana, we are thrilled to announce that the Mathematics Women Mathematician Award will soon be launched. This prize will be given to one women mathematician in recognizing her exceptional contributions to the mathematical field.

Eligibility for the Award:
– All women mathematicians. 

Selection Criteria:
− Women scientists;
− Must have received their Ph.D.;
− Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of mathematics;
− Candidates must be nominated by senior scientists;
− Have not applied for the Young Investigator Award, Breakthrough Research Award, and Academic Excellence Award this year. 

The Prize:
There will be one winner this year, and she will receive the following:
− CHF 2000;
− An opportunity to publish a peer-reviewed paper free of charge in 2025;
− A certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website before 15 May 2025.

Mathematics Editorial Office