Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana, we wish to acknowledge our reviewers who generously offer their time to review the papers submitted to Mathematics by presenting an award to the reviewers who have demonstrated their dedication, professionalism, and timeliness in reviewing manuscripts for Mathematics.

What are the pre-requisites to be eligible for this award?
All of the reviewers for Mathematics in 2023 will be automatically included.

Selection Criteria:
–– Number of review reports;
–– The quality and timeliness of review reports.

What will the winners receive?
There will be five winners this year, and each will receive the following:
–– CHF 500;
–– An opportunity to publish a peer-reviewed paper free of charge in 2024;
–– A certificate.

When will the winners be announced?
The winners will be announced at the end of March 2024 on the journal’s website.

How can I make myself eligible?
If you have not yet reviewed papers for Mathematics but would like to do so, you can register as a reviewer at the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/ volunteer/profile/edit.

Kind regards,
Mathematics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Mathematics is inviting applications for the Mathematics 2023 Best PhD Thesis Award. This prize will be awarded to two PhD students or recently qualified PhDs who have produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential. The applications will be assessed by an evaluation committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana.

Eligibility and Requirements:
– The candidate must be a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential;
– The PhD thesis must be their original work;
– The PhD thesis must be defended in 2023.

Required Application Documents:
– An executive summary of the PhD thesis in English of around 3000 words;
– A letter from the PhD supervisor recommending the candidate for consideration for this award;
– The candidate’s CV, including a list of publications connected with the thesis;
– An electronic copy of the PhD thesis;
– A scanned copy of the PhD diploma (or certificate of studying at a school or research institute as a PhD student going to graduate or participate in graduation thesis defenses).

Selection Criteria:
– Quality of resume and publications;
– Relevance of the candidate and research description;
– Novelty of the candidate’s PhD thesis;
– Strength of the recommendation letter;
– Anticipated academic potential;
– Originality and impact of the research.

Prizes:
– Bonus (CHF 500);
– Certificate;
– Offer to publish one paper free of charge in Mathematics after peer review before the end of 2024.

The application deadline is 31 January 2024. The winner will be announced on the Mathematics website by the end of April 2024.

Kind regards,
Mathematics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that Mathematics is now inviting nominations for the Mathematics 2023 Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the field of mathematics. All nominations will be assessed by an Award Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana.

The Prize:
– CHF 2000;
– Option to publish one paper free of charge in Mathematics after peer review before 31 December 2024;
– An electronic certificate.

Eligibility and Requirements for Candidates:
– Must have received their PhD no more than 10 years prior to 31 December 2023;
– Must have produced ground-breaking research and made a significant contribution to the advancement of mathematics;
– Must be nominated by senior scientists.

List of Documents for Nomination:
– Detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants;
– Scanned copy of doctorate certificate;
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

Schedule:
– Open for nomination: 6 February 2023;
– Nomination deadline: 15 October 2023;
– Winner announcement: 29 December 2023.

How to Submit Nominations:
Nominations must be submitted online (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/awards/2137).

Contact:
Email: [email protected]

Kind regards,
Mathematics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the “Mathematics 2022 Best Paper Award” for research and review articles published in Mathematics from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022. The papers will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal Award Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana.

Eligibility for the Award:
– Papers published in Mathematics from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2022;
– Open to all career levels;
– Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection Criteria:
The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria:
– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

The Prizes:
– The first prize (one winner): CHF 800 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Mathematics in 2024 after peer review;
– The second prize (two winners): CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Mathematics in 2024 after peer review;
– The third prize (three winners): CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Mathematics in 2024 after peer review;
– Each winner will receive a certificate.

The winners will be announced on the journal website at the end of March 2024.

Kind regards,
Mathematics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Mathematics 2023 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Paula Triguero Navarro, a PhD student at the Institute for Multidisciplinary Mathematics at the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain. She will share her research on “Solving Multiple Roots Simultaneously” at the 23rd International Conference Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE 2023) in Spain.

As the awardee, she will receive an honorarium of CHF 800 and a certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winner on her accomplishment.

Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana
Editor-in-Chief, Mathematics

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Mathematics 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Mathematics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Mathematics. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Prof. Dr. Manuel De La Sen
Department of Electricity and Electronics, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
Research Interests: dynamic systems; stability of dynamic systems and stability of differential and difference equations; epidemic mathematical models

Prof. Dr. Takeshi Emura
Biostatistics Center, Kurume University, Kurume, Japan
Research Interests: statistical methods; statistical decision theory; reliability; statistical process control

Prof. Dr. Vladica Stojanović
Department of Informatics and Computer Sciences, University of Criminal Investigation and Police Studies, Belgrade, Serbia
Research Interests: mathematical statistics; applied mathematics; computational physics

Dr. Weizhong Tian
College of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen, China
Research Interests: parameter estimation; cloud computing; multivariate analysis

Dr. Ferdinando Di Martino
Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Research Interests: image analysis; geographical information systems; fuzzy logic; soft computing

The Prize for Each Winner:
–– CHF 500;
–– An opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Mathematics in 2023 after peer review;
–– A certificate.

Kind regards,
Mathematics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics, it is my pleasure to announce the winner of the Mathematics 2022 Best PhD Thesis Award. This award is for a PhD student or recently qualified PhD who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with great academic potential.

The award has been granted to:

“Dynamical Behaviours of Size Dependant and Functionally Graded Beams via Numerical Solutions” By Subrat Kumar Jena, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India.

Dr. Subrat Kumar Jena will receive CHF 500, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Mathematics in 2023. 

On behalf of the evaluation committee, I congratulate Dr. Subrat Kumar Jena on his accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses, as well as the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana,
Editor-in-Chief, Mathematics

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Mathematics 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2021 in Mathematics were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, six winners (the corresponding authors of each paper) were selected.

The First Prize (one paper): CHF 800 plus the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 2023 after peer review.
Implicit Solitary Waves for One of the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations
By Nikolay A. Kudryashov
Mathematics 2021, 9(23), 3024; doi:10.3390/math9233024

The Second Prize (two papers): CHF 500 plus the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 2023 after peer review.
General Fractional Integrals and Derivatives with the Sonine Kernels
By Yuri Luchko
Mathematics 2021, 9(6), 594; doi:10.3390/math9060594

New General Variants of Chebyshev Type Inequalities via Generalized Fractional Integral Operators
By Ahmet Ocak Akdemir, Saad Ihsan Butt, Muhammad Nadeem and Maria Alessandra Ragusa
Mathematics 2021, 9(2), 122; doi:10.3390/math9020122

The Third Prize (three papers): CHF 300 plus the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 2023 after peer review.
Statistical Machine Learning in Model Predictive Control of Nonlinear Processes
By Zhe Wu, David Rincon, Quanquan Gu and Panagiotis D. Christofides
Mathematics 2021, 9(16),1912; doi:10.3390/math9161912

A Guide to Special Functions in Fractional Calculus
By Virginia Kiryakova
Mathematics 2021, 9(1), 106; doi:10.3390/math9010106

New Importance Measures Based on Failure Probability in Global Sensitivity Analysis of Reliability
By Zdeněk Kala
Mathematics 2021, 9(19), 2425; doi:10.3390/math9192425

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Mathematics 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Mathematics.

Kind regards,
Mathematics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Mathematics 2021 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Marina Murillo-Arcila.

Dr. Marina Murillo-Arcila is currently Associate Professor in the Instituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada at Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia, Spain. Dr. Murillo-Arcila’s research is in the field of the study of abstract evolution equations and linear dynamical systems in infinite dimension. Contributions to the first line of research on evolution equations emphasize the study of qualitative properties of linear and nonlinear integrodifferential equations in the context of Banach spaces. Contributions to the research line of linear dynamical systems in infinite dimension focus on the study of properties such as Devaney chaos and other dynamical properties of operators and positive semigroups due to their essential connection with the study of the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of certain partial derivative equations. Additionally, Dr. Murillo-Arcila has been involved in the research collaboration on the application of epidemiological models to describe message dissemination in infrastructure-less and vehicular networks. Dr. Murillo-Arcila received her PhD on January 2015 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising 49 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. She has also obtained several awards and recognitions during the academic and research career, including the Vicent Caselles Research Award awarded by the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society in 2017, Jury Member in the Jaime I Awards 2018, Best Andaluz Award in Sciences 2019, National Award for Excellence in Academic Performance in Mathematics given by the Spanish Ministry of Education, etc. Dr. Murillo-Arcila has participated in eight national and international research projects throughout these years and is the main researcher of three research projects. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Marina Murillo-Arcila for her outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Marina Murillo-Arcila will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before the end of 2022 in Mathematics after peer-review, and an engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Kind regards,
Mathematics Editorial Office

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners, as listed below, of the Mathematics 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Mathematics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to acknowledge the dedication of these reviewers in their evaluations of the manuscripts submitted to Mathematics. It is due to their efforts that the high quality and quick turnaround period of the journal can be maintained.

Maria Alessandra Ragusa
– 1. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Viale Andrea Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy
   2. RUDN University, 6 Miklukho-Maklay St, 117198 Moscow, Russia
– Research Interest: nonlinear analysis; mathematical models in applied sciences; partial differential equations; environmental applications of mathematical methods

Endre Kovács
– Institute of Physics and Electrical Engineering, University of Miskolc, Miskolc 3515, Hungary
– Research Interest: numerical simulation; parabolic partial differential equations; ordinary differential equations; heat conduction; numerical methods; diffusion

Roman Vavrek
– Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, 702 00 Ostrava, Czech Republic
– Research Interest: multicriteria decision-making methods; efficiency evaluation

Giacomo Ascione
– Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni “Renato Caccioppoli”, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, I-80126 Naples, Italy
– Research Interest: generalized fractional calculus; Lévy process; Bernstein function; subordinator; nonlocal abstract Cauchy problems; subordinated Brownian motion

Giorgio Sonnino
– Department of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, University in the City of Brussels, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
– Research Interest: hermodynamics of irreversible processes; entropy information theory; thermodynamic field theories; metric geometry in thermodynamics; non-linear dynamics; hydrodynamic fluctuations; transport processes in tokamak-plasmas

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana, Mathematics

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Mathematics 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published in 2020 in Mathematics were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the six winning papers, which were nominated by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclan, have been selected.

The awards have been granted to the following:
Rank one: CHF 800
A Regularity Criterion in Weak Spaces to Boussinesq Equations
2020, 8(6), 920; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8060920

Rank two: CHF 500
Regarding New Wave Patterns of the Newly Extended Nonlinear (2+1)-Dimensional Boussinesq Equation with Fourth Order
2020, 8(3), 341; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8030341

Elephant Herding Optimization: Variants, Hybrids, and Applications
2020, 8(9), 1415; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8091415

Rank three: CHF 300
CLSTM: Deep Feature-Based Speech Emotion Recognition Using the Hierarchical ConvLSTM Network
2020, 8(12), 2133; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8122133

Soft Open Bases and a Novel Construction of Soft Topologies from Bases for Topologies
2020, 8(5), 672; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8050672

An Integrated Approach of Best-Worst Method (BWM) and Triangular Fuzzy Sets for Evaluating Driver Behavior Factors Related to Road Safety
2020, 8(3), 414; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8030414

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclan, Mathematics

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Mathematics 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Mathematics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Mathematics. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround is maintained.

Each of the winners below will receive 500 CHF, an offer to publish a Feature Paper free of charge in Mathematics in 2021, and a certificate to recognize their outstanding work:

Dr. Samad Noeiaghdam
Baikal School of BRICS, Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk, Russian Federation.
Research Interest: numerical analysis; stochastic arithmetic; fuzzy mathematics and integral equations mathematical modeling.

Prof. Dr. Yuriy Povstenko
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland.
Research Interest: fractional calculus.

Dr. Denis Butusov
Youth Research Institute, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University LETI, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Research Interest: Numerical Simulation; nonlinear systems; analysis; Statistical Methods; signal & amp; Image Processing and chaos.

Prof. Dr. Yeliz Karaca
Medical School, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, USA.
Research Interest: data analysis; Modeling and Simulation; engineering; applied and computational mathematics.

Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. José A. Tenreiro Machado, Mathematics

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Mathematics 2020 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Ángel Alberto Magreñán Ruiz.

Dr. Magreñán is currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Department of Mathematics and Computation at the University of La Rioja, Spain. He has provided salient contributions to applied mathematics and mathematics 
education. Major contributions distinguishing him include the following: (1) local and semilocal convergence of iterative methods with and without memory, enlarging the problems (such us chemical problems, differential 
equation problems, or modeling problems) that can be solved using these iterative methods. (2) Dr. Magreñán has also studied the dynamical properties of different iterative methods, including real dynamics and a tool to study real dynamics or complex dynamics with two parameters, which has been used by many authors. (3) Dr. Magreñán is productive and influential in the fields of applied mathematics and mathematics education. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Magreñán on receiving this award and for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Magreñán will receive an honorarium of 2000 CHF and an engraved plaque.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Mathematics Travel Award 2020.

These two Travel Awards are granted to Quanling Deng, a postdoctoral research fellow at Curtin University and Ioannis Dassios, a postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin.

It was a difficult decision with such high-quality applications for the awards, and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners for their accomplishments. We are proud to support these two young scientists and wish further success in their career.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. José A. Tenreiro Machado

Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to mathematics, and is published monthly online by MDPI. For further details, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics.

Dear Colleagues,

As the editor-in-chief of Mathematics, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Mathematics 2019 Best Paper Award.

First Award:

Paper Title: Applications of the Fractional Diffusion Equation to Option Pricing and Risk Calculations
2019, 7(9), 796; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7090796

Second Award:
Paper Title: Desiderata for Fractional Derivatives and Integrals
2019, 7(2), 149; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7020149

Paper Title: Evaluation of Fractional Integrals and Derivatives of Elementary Functions: Overview and Tutorial
2019, 7(5), 407; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7050407

Third Award:
Paper Title: On History of Mathematical Economics: Application of Fractional Calculus
2019, 7(6), 509; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7060509

Paper Title: Economic Machine-Learning-Based Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems
2019, 7(6), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7060494

Paper Title: On Terms of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences which are Powers of their Indexes
2019, 7(8), 700; https://doi.org/10.3390/math7080700

The first award winner (corresponding author) will receive 500 CHF. The second award winners (corresponding author) for each paper will receive 300 CHF, and the third award winners (corresponding author) for each paper will receive 200 CHF.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Mathematics, and thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Prof. Dr. José A. Tenreiro Machado, Mathematics

The Mathematics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy committed by our reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission-to-publication process have been maintained. The median time from submission to first decision is 21 days and the median time to publication is 40 days.

The following referees have been selected by the Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics, Prof. Dr. José A. Tenreiro Machado, to receive Mathematics 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Awards for the quantity, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019. Each of them will receive 500 CHF, an offer to publish a Feature Paper free of charge in Mathematics, and a certificate to recognize their outstanding work:

Prof. Denis Butusov
Petersburg State Electrotechnical University, Russia

Dr. João Cabral
University of Azores, Portugal

Dr. Moreno Concezzi
Roma Tre University, Italy

Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390) is a peer-reviewed open access journal that provides an advanced forum for studies related to mathematics, and is published monthly online by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. The journal is covered by leading indexing services, including Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) and Scopus. Coverage starts from 2016, Volume 4. For further details, please refer to: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics

Dear Authors,

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Mathematics Best Paper Award. Six research articles were selected by the journal award committee according to their originality and significance as well as citation and download rates in 2019 (Web of Science). Each nomination was examined by the committee members, who expressed their preferences as a ranking from which the winners of the 2018 Mathematics Best Paper Award were determined.

The award recipients will each receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Mathematics, subject to the normal peer review procedure. Each paper will additionally receive a bonus based on the award class. The winners are as follows:

First Award (one research paper), 500 CHF
Numerical Solution of Fractional Differential Equations: A Survey and a Software Tutorial
Author: Roberto Garrappa, Italy
Mathematics 2018, 6(2), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6020016
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/2/16

Second Award (two research papers), 300 CHF each
Numerical Solution of Multiterm Fractional Differential Equations Using the Matrix Mittag–Leffler Functions
Author: Marina Popolizio, Italy
Mathematics 2018, 6(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6010007
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/1/7

Data Driven Economic Model Predictive Control
Authors: Prashant Mhaskar, Canada and Masoud Kheradmandi, Canada
Mathematics 2018, 6(4), 51; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6040051
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/4/51

Third Award (three research papers), 100 CHF each
Computation of Probability Associated with Anderson–Darling Statistic
Authors: Lorentz Jäntschi, Romania and Sorana D. Bolboacă, Romania
Mathematics 2018, 6(6), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6060088
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/6/88

Approximate Dynamic Programming Based Control of Proppant Concentration in Hydraulic Fracturing
Authors: Harwinder Singh Sidhu, USA, Prashanth Siddhamshetty, USA and Joseph S. Kwon, USA
Mathematics 2018, 6(8), 132; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6080132
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/8/132

Recurrent Neural Network-Based Model Predictive Control for Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Authors: Wee Chin Wong, Singapore, Ewan Chee, Singapore, Jiali Li, Singapore and Xiaonan Wang, Singapore
Mathematics 2018, 6(11), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/math6110242
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/6/11/242

We congratulate the authors and thank them for selecting Mathematics to publish their work.

The Mathematics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy given by reviewers in checking manuscripts submitted to the journal. It is thanks to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick submission-to-publication process are maintained. The median time from submission to first decision is 21.9 days and the median time to publication is 38 days.

The following referees have been selected by the Associate Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics, Prof. Dr. Indranil SenGupta, to receive “Mathematics 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Awards” for the quantity, timeliness and quality of their reviews in 2018. Each of them will receive 500 CHF, an offer to publish a Feature Paper, free of charge, in Mathematics and a certificate to recognize their outstanding work:

Assoc Prof. Dr. Violeta Keršulienė
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

Prof. Yuriy Zinoviy Povstenko
Jan Dlugosz University Czestochowa, Poland

Dr. Diana Otrocol
Tiberiu Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis (ICTP), Romanian Academy, Romania

Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to mathematics, and is published monthly online by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. The journal is covered by leading indexing services, including Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Scopus and Zentralblatt MATH. The first Impact Factor (IF) is expected to be published in the “2019 Journal Citation Reports (JCR)” by Clarivate Analytics in June 2019. Coverage starts from 2016, Volume 4. For further details, please refer to:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Mathematics Travel Awards for 2018:

Travel Awards were granted to Timo Welti, a PhD student in Dr. Arnulf Jentzen’s group in the Department of Mathematics at ETH Zürich, and to Dr. Patrick Kürschner, a post-doctoral researcher in Dr. Peter Benner’s group at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems, Germany.

Timo Welti has been working in the field of stochastic analysis. His recent research mainly focuses on new methods for solving high-dimensional optimal stopping problems. He will give a talk about “Deep optimal stopping: Solving high-dimensional optimal stopping problems with deep learning” at the SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification.

Dr. Patrick Kürschner has been working in the research area of numerical linear algebra. His research mainly focuses on numerical solution strategies for large-scale eigenvalue problems, matrix equations, matrix functions, preconditioning, and applications thereof. He will give a talk about “A comparison of rational Krylov and related methods for large Riccati equations” at the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra 2018.

Prof. Dr. Lokenath Debnath
Editor-in-Chief

Dear Authors,

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Mathematics Best Paper Award. Six research articles were selected by the journal award committee according to their originality and significance as well as citation and download rates in 2018 (Web of Science). The selection committee was chaired by the Associate Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Indranil SenGupta, and supported by Prof. Dr. Antonio Di Crescenzo, Prof. Dr. Hari M. Srivastava, Prof. Dr. Ion Mihai, Prof. Dr. Juan R. Torregrosa, and Prof. Dr. Frank Werner. They examined each paper and expressed their preferences in the ranking of the 2017 Mathematics Best Paper Award.

The award recipients will each receive a certificate and an invitation to publish a paper free of charge in Mathematics, after the normal peer-review procedure. Each paper will additionally receive a bonus based on the award class. The winners list is as follows:

First Award (one research paper), 300 CHF;

Morita, T.; Sato, K.-I. Solution of Inhomogeneous Differential Equations with Polynomial Coefficients in Terms of the Green’s Function. Mathematics 2017, 5, 62; Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/62

Second Award (two research papers), 200 CHF each;

Mortari, D. Least-Squares Solution of Linear Differential Equations. Mathematics 2017, 5, 48; Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/48

Luchko, Y. On Some New Properties of the Fundamental Solution to the Multi-Dimensional Space- and Time-Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equation. Mathematics 2017, 5, 76; Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/76

Third Award (three research papers), 100 CHF each;

Ebrahimzadeh, A.; Giski, Z.E.; Markechová, D. Logical Entropy of Dynamical Systems—A General Model. Mathematics 2017, 5, 4. Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/1/4

Köhnke, M.C.; Malchow, H. Impact of Parameter Variability and Environmental Noise on the Klausmeier Model of Vegetation Pattern Formation. Mathematics 2017, 5, 69; Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/69

Lee, Y.-H. Stability of a Monomial Functional Equation on a Restricted Domain. Mathematics 2017, 5, 53; Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/5/4/53

We congratulate the authors and thank them for having chosen Mathematics to publish their work.