The Governing Council of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences awarded with an honorary medal "Marin Drinov" on a ribbon Corr. Memb. Svetozar Margenov, Director of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS (IICT). The award was presented by the President of the Academy Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of BAS, at an official celebration. The honour is awarded for the contribution of Corr. Memb. Margenov to the development of Bulgarian science, as well as on the occasion of his 70th anniversary. Corr. Memb. Svetozar Margenov is a scientist with international reputation and recognition in the field of numerical methods, mathematical and computer modeling and parallel algorithms. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, including 2 [...]

The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, has awarded today a diploma of Associate Member of the Assembly of Academicians and Corresponding Members to Prof. Ivan Kostov. Our goal is to maintain good cooperation with colleagues working abroad, said Prof. Revalski and recalled that in March the Assembly of Academicians elected two Bulgarian scientists as associate members of AACM - Prof. Ivan Kostov and Prof. Dimitar Sasselov. Prof. Ivan Kostov is the author of 100 articles, cited over 5940 times. Since 1990 he has been on permanent appointment at CEA, Saclay, France. He has been awarded the Grand Prix Servant de l'Academie des Sciences (2007), Associate Professor at CERN, Geneva (1997-1998) and at the Yukawa Institute, Kyoto (2000-2001), Visiting Professor [...]

Prof. Erhard Hinrichs from the University of Tübingen, Germany, has been awarded with a badge of honour "FOR MERITS TO BAS". The award was presented to him today in “Prof. Marin Drinov" Hall of BAS by the Scientific Secretary-General of the Academy Prof. Neli Koseva. The prize is awarded for the contribution of Prof. Hinrichs to asserting BAS as a leading centre in the field of language resources and technologies. The ceremony took place during the official opening of the second international CLaDA-BG conference - Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications 2023 which is taking place from 10 to 12 May.

  The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, awarded an honorary medal "FOR MERITS TO BAS" to Prof. Raytcho Lazarov. The Governing Board of the Academy awarded the distinction to Prof. Lazarov for his contribution to the modern development of scientific research in the field of numerical methods and algorithms at BAS. Raytcho Lazarov is a world-renowned scientist in the field of mathematics and computer science, Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University. He has published highly acclaimed and cited joint papers with scientists from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics and the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS.