Aracne was an Italian publishing company, founded in 1993 by Gioacchino Onorati and specialized in academic and scientific literature. It was declared failed on 6 April 2018.
It is the only Italian publishing company that does not require exclusive rights for its publications.Aracne editrice - Pubblica con noi 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,Aracne editrice - Metodi e criteri di valutazione it has often been found to use vanity press systems, and to publish on ordination.
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.Elenco degli Editori registrati per la VQR | Anvur
Reinhold Baer Prize
The Reinhold Baer Prize is an annual mathematics award granted jointly by the non-profit associations AGTA (Advances in Group Theory and Applications) and Aracne for outstanding PhD theses or research articles in group theory and its applications. The award is named after the German algebraist Reinhold Baer.
The laureate is presented with a prize of 1,000 €.
The first premiere took place during the international conference Advances in Group Theory and Applications 2017, held in Lecce from September 5 to 8, 2017.
Laureates
Year Laureate(s) Image Citizenship(s) Institution(s) Title of awarded thesis or article 2017 Urban Jezernik Winner University of Ljubljana Universal Commutator Relations Carolina Vallejo Rodriguez Special Mention University of Valencia Characters, correspondences and fields of values of finite groups 2018 Gareth Tracey Winner University of Warwick Minimal generation of transitive permutation groups Geoffrey Janssens Special Mention Vrije Universiteit Brussel Identities of Affine Algebras and their Asymptotic Behaviour 2019 Not assigned 2020 Florian Eisele Winner (ex aequo) City University of London A counterexample to the first Zassenhaus conjecture Leo Margolis Winner (ex aequo) / Vrije Universiteit Brussel A counterexample to the first Zassenhaus conjecture Hangyang Meng Special Mention Universitat de Valencia Regular orbits of actions of finite soluble groups 2022 Iker de las Heras Winner University of the Basque Country Some topics on finite p-groups and pro-p groups Sam Hughes Special Mention University of Southampton Equivariant cohomology, lattices, and trees 2024 Scott Harper Winner University of St Andrews The maximal size of a minimal generating set Jan Moritz Petschick Special Mention Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Groups acting on rooted trees, the generalised Magnus property and zeta functions of groups
Institutions mentioned above refer to the institutions where the laureates obtained their PhD.
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