Aracne

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Aracne
Statusfailed
Founded1993
FounderGioacchino Onorati
Defunct2018  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Country of origin Italy
Headquarters location Rome
Fiction genres academic, scientific
Official website www.aracneeditrice.it

Aracne was an Italian publishing company, founded in 1993 by Gioacchino Onorati and specialized in academic and scientific literature. It was declared failed on the 6 of april, 2018. [1]

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It is the only Italian publishing company that does not require exclusive rights for its publications. [2] Aracne publishes both paper books and ebooks, most of them in Italian, although a considerable number of works is published in English. It claimed to use the peer review as an evaluation system, [3] it has often been found to use vanity press systems, [4] and to publish on ordination. [5]

Aracne was a member of the programme for the Evaluation of the Quality of Research of the ANVUR, institution of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. [6]

Reinhold Baer Prize

The Reinhold Baer Prize [7] is a mathematics award, annually granted jointly by the no-profit association AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications and Aracne for outstanding PhD theses or research article in group theory and its applications. The award is named after the German algebraist Reinhold Baer.

The laureate is presented with a pecuniary prize of EUR1,000.

The first premiere took place during the international conference Advances in Group Theory and Applications 2017, held in Lecce (Italy) from September 5 to 8, 2017. [8]

Laureates

YearLaureate(s)ImageCitizenship(s)Institution(s) [a] Title of awarded thesis or article
2017 [8] Urban JezernikWinnerFlag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia University of Ljubljana Universal Commutator Relations [9]
Carolina Vallejo RodriguezSpecial MentionFlag of Spain.svg  Spain University of Valencia Characters, correspondences and fields of values of finite groups
2018 [10] Gareth TraceyWinnerFlag of Ireland.svg  Ireland University of Warwick Minimal generation of transitive permutation groups
Geoffrey JanssensSpecial MentionFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel Identities of Affine Algebras and their Asymptotic Behaviour
2019 [11] Not assigned
2020 [12] Florian EiseleWinner (ex aequo)Flag of Germany.svg  Germany City University of London A counterexample to the first Zassenhaus conjecture
Leo MargolisWinner (ex aequo)Flag of Germany.svg  Germany/Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Vrije Universiteit Brussel A counterexample to the first Zassenhaus conjecture
Hangyang MengSpecial MentionFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Universitat de Valencia Regular orbits of actions of finite soluble groups
2022 [13] Iker de las HerasWinnerFlag of the Basque Country.svg  Basque Country University of the Basque Country Some topics on finite p-groups and pro-p groups
Sam HughesSpecial MentionFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom University of Southampton Equivariant cohomology, lattices, and trees

a Institutions mentioned above refer to the institutions where the laureates obtained their PhD.

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