
The University of Queensland’s Professor Ole Warnaar has been announced as a joint winner of the 2020 George Szekeres Medal for his outstanding contribution to the mathematical sciences.
The prestigious accolade is awarded every two years by the Australian Mathematical Society to a recipient with an excellent record of promoting and supporting the discipline of mathematics.
Professor Warnaar, Chair and Professor of Pure Mathematics at UQ, is a leading expert in special functions, partition theory and algebraic combinatorics, and was awarded along with The University of Sydney’s Professor Nalini Joshi.