Aracne
Italian academic publisher
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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.[1]
| Status | failed |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1993 |
| Founder | Gioacchino Onorati |
| Defunct | 2018 |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Headquarters location | Rome |
| Fiction genres | academic, scientific |
| Official website | www |
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 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.[8]
Laureates
| Year | Laureate(s) | Image | Citizenship(s) | Institution(s)[a] | Title of awarded thesis or article | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 [8] | Urban Jezernik | Winner |  Slovenia |
University of Ljubljana | Universal Commutator Relations[9] | |
| Carolina Vallejo Rodriguez | Special Mention |  Spain |
University of Valencia | Characters, correspondences and fields of values of finite groups | ||
| 2018 [10] | Gareth Tracey | Winner |  Ireland |
University of Warwick | Minimal generation of transitive permutation groups | |
| Geoffrey Janssens | Special Mention |  Belgium |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Identities of Affine Algebras and their Asymptotic Behaviour | ||
| 2019 [11] | Not assigned | |||||
| 2020 [12] | Florian Eisele | Winner (ex aequo) |  Germany |
City University of London | A counterexample to the first Zassenhaus conjecture | |
| Leo Margolis | Winner (ex aequo) | Germany/ Russia |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel | A counterexample to the first Zassenhaus conjecture | ||
| Hangyang Meng | Special Mention |  China |
Universitat de Valencia | Regular orbits of actions of finite soluble groups | ||
| 2022 [13] | Iker de las Heras | Winner |  Basque Country |
University of the Basque Country | Some topics on finite p-groups and pro-p groups | |
| Sam Hughes | Special Mention |  United Kingdom |
University of Southampton | Equivariant cohomology, lattices, and trees | ||
| 2024 [14] | Scott Harper | Winner | United Kingdom |
University of St Andrews | The maximal size of a minimal generating set | |
| Jan Moritz Petschick | Special Mention | Germany |
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf | Groups acting on rooted trees, the generalised Magnus property and zeta functions of groups | ||
a Institutions mentioned above refer to the institutions where the laureates obtained their PhD.