1.1. The Polish Academy of Sciences.

The Polish Academy of Science - the most significant scientific institution in Poland - was founded in 1952. Its mission is to work comprehensively to further the advancement of science, in the service of society and for the enrichment of Poland's national culture, while adhering to the highest standards of research quality and ethical norms. The Academy is an elected body of scholars, including national members (ordinary and corresponding members) and also foreign members. The number of national members is limited to a maximum of 350. New members of the Academy are chosen by the General Assembly from among candidate scholars who have made outstanding contributions to their fields and command respect among the scientific community.

1.2. The Award of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1980.

The Award of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences 1980 was made to Tadeusz Iwaniec.

2.1. The Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation.

Alfred Jurzykowski was born in 1899 in Cieszyn Silesia. As an officer of the Polish army, he took part in the Polish-Bolshevik War in 1920. In the interwar period, he founded his own department store in Warsaw and ran an export company in Gdańsk. He took part in the September Campaign. After its defeat, he left for Italy via Romania and from there to the USA, where he ran his own company. During his stay in Brazil in 1950-1960, in 1956 he launched the first Mercedes-Benz bus and truck factory in that country, in which he initially had 50% and later 75% of shares. When he returned to the USA in 1960, at the urging of the Polish consul in Chicago, Rudolf Rathaus, he created a foundation bearing his name.

The Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation was established by Alfred Jurzykowski in 1960 in New York to support (including financing) scientific and cultural institutions located outside Poland. Beginning in 1964, the Foundation awarded prizes to artists of Polish origin (working in Poland or abroad) for outstanding achievements in the broadly understood field of culture: science and humanities, medicine, literature (creative work, translations, literary criticism), fine arts, music (composition, performance, musicology), theatre, film, etc. The awards were presented at the Foundation's headquarters in New York and amounted to six thousand dollars in the years 1990-1997.

2.2. The 1997 Alfred Jurzykowski Prize.

The Jurzykowski Prize was awarded to Tadeusz Iwaniec in 1997 by the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation in New York.

3.1. The Institut Henri-Poincaré/Gauthier-Villars Prize.

The Institut Henri-Poincaré and the Éditions Gauthier-Villars (ESME), in collaboration with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), are awarding three annual prizes of 10,000 French Francs, in June of each year, at the Institut Henri-Poincaré in Paris, France.

Since 1995, this prize recognises an article published during the year preceding tht in which the prize is given. It awards articles in each of three series of the Annales de L'Institut Henri-Poincaré (Theoretical Physics, Probability and Statistics, Nonlinear Analysis), with particular attention given to innovative articles.

The authors of the award-winning articles are invited to present their work in a conference preceded by the awarding of the prizes.

3.2. The Prix 2001 L'Institut Henri-Poincaré/Gauthier-Villars

Tadeusz Iwaniec was awarded the Prix 2001 L'Institut Henri-Poincaré/Gauthier-Villars for the paper: Tadeusz Iwaniec and Carlo Sbordone, Quasiharmonic fields, Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré C Anal. Non Linéaire 18 (5) (2001), 519-572.

Juha Heinonen wtites in a review of this paper:

The authors take full advantage of the sophisticated analytic machinery of geometric function theory and the related nonlinear analysis, and provide a detailed study of the Beltrami equation associated with a quasiharmonic field. They also advance interesting conjectures as to the sharp integrability conditions for quasiharmonic fields. All these would follow if the sharp operator norms for certain higher-dimensional analogues of the complex Hilbert transform were known. Nevertheless, the known estimates already yield notable results. In particular, these results can be used for solutions to certain nonlinear elliptic equations, which, fixing a solution, can be rewritten in the language of div-curl couples. Applications to nonhomogeneous equations with measure data are also given.

4.1. The William Wasserstrom Prize.

The Wasserstrom Prize is awarded by Syracuse University in memory of Professor William Wasserstrom, a former member of the Department of English of the Syracuse University. The William Wasserstrom Prize is awarded annually to a faculty member from The College of Arts and Sciences who produces original and distinctive work as a scholar, and who has an outstanding record of effective training of graduate students, including the advising and mentoring of thesis students. The William Wasserstrom Prize winner is selected by the college's Committee on Instruction from professors nominated by the faculty and students in the college.

4.2. The William Wasserstrom Prize 2002.

The 2001-02 William Wasserstrom Prize for Graduate Teaching in The College of Arts and Sciences was presented to Tadeusz Iwaniec, professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Iwaniec, is noted as an enthusiastic and incredibly productive researcher in mathematics.

Since his first research paper in 1974, Iwaniec has written over 80 papers, and this research has led to numerous lecture invitations all over the world, including invitations to address the International Congress of Mathematicians and the American Mathematical Society. He has had research grant support from the National Science Foundation continuously since 1988 and has been referred to by the anonymous evaluators of his last NSF proposal as "the most influential person in the geometric function theory in recent years."

He has a reputation for collaborating, especially with young people. According to Philip T Church, professor of mathematics, he sees potential in his young students and "he furnishes encouragement, infectious enthusiasm, inspiration and knowledge of how one goes about doing research in mathematics." Many of his students have gone on to be noted by the international community as well."

Graduate students rank Iwaniec as an outstanding teacher and mentor. Graduate student Leonard R Budney declared that Iwaniec "reaches out to students, whether they are his advisees or not, both personally and professionally. With his warmth and concern, he helped unite graduate students and faculty into a close community."

5.1. The Polish Scholarship Fund.

The Polish Scholarship Fund (PSF), since its inception in 1954, has served to preserve and promote Polish heritage within the Central NY area.

5.2. The Polish Scholarship Fund's Pole of the Year 2003.

Professor Tadeusz Iwaniec is an internationally acclaimed researcher, winner of many awards for his studies and a dedicated teacher who attracts the top young mathematics students in the U.S. and abroad.

"He's a treasure for the Mathematics Department and Syracuse University," said Douglas Anderson, chairman of the Mathematics Department. "He certainly has a very high degree of visibility internationally in the world of mathematics."

"Given our mission of encouraging the academic endeavours of Polish students, we are particularly honoured this year to pay tribute to Professor Tadeusz Iwaniec, a researcher and teacher of great renown," said Tad Szyszka, vice president of the fund.

As a young student in Poland, Iwaniec was identified early as a scholar of great promise and studied with the top researchers at the University of Warsaw, where he received his Ph.D. He won the Prize of the President at the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he taught, and served as coach of the Polish team in the International Mathematics Olympics.

He served as visiting professor at the University of Michigan, the University of Texas and the New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences before beginning his work in 1986 at Syracuse University, where he was granted immediate tenure.

He has since been named the John Raymond French Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Syracuse University, won the medal and prize of the Henri Poincaré Institute of Nonlinear Analysis in Paris for his paper, Quasiharmonic Fields, was selected for the Alfred Jurzykowski Award - an international honour - for creative achievements in science, and last year won Syracuse University's William Wasserstrom Prize for graduate level teaching.

His research has been funded continuously since 1988 by the National Science Foundation where anonymous evaluators called him "the most influential person in geometric function theory in recent years."

His reputation as a lecturer has earned him numerous opportunities to speak at mathematics conferences around the world and his popularity as a teacher draws a steady stream of students from Europe to Syracuse University for direction in their research projects.

Despite his credentials, Iwaniec has a reputation for patience with undergraduates who lack his passion for mathematics.

He is fond of saying, "It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."

His graduate students find him gracious and accommodating.

"His outreach to students is one of the most amazing qualities of his," according to Uma Subramanian, a graduate student. "Amidst his crazy, busy schedule, he finds time to stop by a desk where graduate students are working; he will chat with us like a buddy, talk about mathematics in a very funny way and give hints on solving problems."

For relaxation, Iwaniec plays classical guitar and builds furniture.

He lives in Syracuse with his wife, who also hold a Ph.D. in mathematics, and his daughter.

6.1. Doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Helsinki.

The Conferment Ceremony is the highest celebration of academic achievement, where graduating masters and doctorates are formally conferred to their new academic rank and gain the right to bear the academic insignia (a hat and a sword for doctors). The Conferment includes dinners, solemn processions, a formal Conferment Act in the university ballroom, lots of speeches, celebrations of education, science, and knowledge, and embracing the fellowship of the academic community.

6.2. Tadeusz Iwaniec becomes Doctor honoris causa of the University of Helsinki.

Tadeusz Iwaniec collaborated with Finnish researchers, yielding several major publications, which led to his receipt of the "Philosophiae Doctor Honoris Causa" from the University of Helsinki in 2007.

7.1. Nine to be honoured with Chancellor's Citations March 17.

Nine Syracuse University faculty and staff members will receive Chancellor's Citations at a dinner in their honour 17 March at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center. The 2007-08 Chancellor's Citations will recognise individuals in the categories of: Engaging the World; Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction; Outstanding Contributions to Academic Access and Support; and this year, a Special Award for Excellence.

The selection committee received many outstanding nominations for this year's awards and will honour the following 2007-08 Chancellor Citation Award winner: Tadeusz Iwaniec, Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction.

Since his first research paper in 1974, Iwaniec has written more than 100 papers, and this research has led to numerous lecture invitations all over the world, including invitations to address the International Congress of Mathematicians and the American Mathematical Society. He is an internationally known mathematician who works in the broad areas of geometric function theory and partial differential equations.

Iwaniec joined Syracuse University in 1986 as a professor of mathematics; in 1996, he was named the John Raymond French Distinguished Professor of Mathematics.

He has had research grant support from the National Science Foundation continuously since 1988, including one of the few NSF Collaborative Grants received at Syracuse University.

8.1. The Wacław Sierpiński Medal.

The Sierpiński Medal is granted to outstanding mathematicians with Polish associations. The University of Warsaw, together with the Polish Mathematical Society, have awarded the medal since its inception in 1974. Celebration of the award includes the Wacław Sierpiński lecture, given by the laureate.

8.2. Mathematics professor receives international award for excellence in research.

Tadeusz Iwaniec, the John Raymond French Distinguished Professor of Mathematics in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences, was chosen to receive the prestigious 2009 Sierpinski Medal. The international award is the highest honour presented by the Polish Mathematical Society and Warsaw University to recognise outstanding accomplishments in the field of mathematics.

In honour of his selection for the medal, Iwaniec delivered the celebrated 2009 Sierpinski Lecture at Warsaw University on 21 May 2009. The title of Iwaniec's lecture was An invitation to quasiconformal hyperelasticity. The Abstract of his lecture is as follows:-

Nonlinear differential forms, variational integrals, free Lagrangians and
topology of Sobolev mappings will come into play. This lecture is de-
signed for a general audience with interest in analysis, topology and
applied mathematics.

The medal and annual lecture are presented in memory of the Polish mathematician Waclaw Sierpinski (1862-1962), renowned for his work in set theory, the theory of irrational numbers and the theory of numbers.

"Professor Iwaniec's selection for this international honour recognises his extraordinary contributions to mathematics," says College of Arts and Sciences Dean George Langford. "On behalf of the college, I offer our congratulations and deep appreciation to him for moving the field of mathematics forward and for training the next generation of mathematicians."

Iwaniec is an internationally acclaimed mathematics researcher whose work in the area of nonlinear analysis and geometric function theory has been continuously supported since 1988 by the National Science Foundation, including one of the few NSF Collaborative Grants received at SU. His work has been recognised by several international awards - the 2001 medal and prize of the Henri Poincaré Institute of Nonlinear Analysis, Paris, for his paper "Quasiharmonic Fields"; the 1997 Alfred Jurzykowski Award in the Field of Mathematics; and the 1980 Prize of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

In 2005, Iwaniec was elected a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2007, he received an honorary degree (doctor of philosophy honoris causa) from the University of Helsinki. In October 2007, an international conference was held in Ischia, Italy, honouring his work on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

The author of more than 100 papers, Iwaniec has been an invited speaker at mathematics conferences all over the world, including invitations to address the International Congress of Mathematicians and the American Mathematical Society. His reputation as a teacher draws to Syracuse University some of the top mathematics graduate students from the United States and abroad. He is the 2002 recipient of Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences William Wasserstrom Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and a 2008 recipient of the Chancellor's Citation for Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction.

Iwaniec holds a master of arts with distinction and a Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw. Prior to joining the SU faculty in 1986 as a full professor, Iwaniec served as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, the University of Texas and New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

9.1. University of Naples Confers Honorary Degree on Syracuse Mathematician.

A professor in the College of Arts and Sciences is the recipient of an honorary degree from the Federico II University of Naples.

Tadeusz Iwaniec, the John Raymond French Professor of Mathematics, received the "Doctor Honoris Causa in Mathematical Engineering" at a special ceremony in Italy on 16 May 2017.

Iwaniec was the second mathematician awarded the "Doctor Honoris Causa" in the history of the University of Naples. (The first was Princeton mathematician John Nash in 2003.) Founded in 1224, Naples is the world's oldest, public, nonreligious university.

"This is an amazing honour," Iwaniec told the overflowing room. "I would like to thank you for the highest award offered by the historic and triumphant University of Naples, in recognition of my modest contributions. It signifies my lasting research commitments to the faculty, and my desire to help scholars and Ph.D. students in the mathematics department."

Iwaniec added that mentoring the next generation of scholars is a "noble commitment, which should be the highest priority of every scientist."

The hour-long program featured remarks by several of Iwaniec's colleagues at the University of Naples, including Gaetano Manfredi, university rector; Piero Salatino, president of the Polytechnic School and Basic Sciences; Gioconda Moscariello, director of the Department of Mathematics and Applications "Renato Caccioppoli"; and Carlo Sbordone, a mathematics professor.

Included was a presentation by Iwaniec titled "The Queen of All Sciences Reveals Her Beauty via Nonlinear Elasticity Problems." Much of it focused on engineering mathematics (also known as "technomath"), a fast-growing branch of mathematical analysis used in engineering and industry.

On 15 May, Iwaniec lectured about another branch of mathematical analysis called the calculus of variations, dealing with extreme and critical points of functions.

Both of Iwaniec's presentations drew on his expertise in geometric function theory, differential equations and nonlinear elasticity - three areas that integrate mathematical theory, practical engineering and scientific computing to solve complex, real world problems.

Iwaniec's connection with the University of Naples dates back to 1990, when Sbordone invited him to the campus. Every year since then, he has spent several weeks there conducting research; co-authoring articles; and mentoring junior faculty, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students.

More than a dozen Neapolitan students have since come to Syracuse to study, thanks to support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). "Syracuse and the NSF are very interested in promoting gender equity in the STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] fields," Iwaniec says. "We're building a talent pipeline between both universities."

Last year, Iwaniec helped the University of Naples launch a master's-level course in mathematical engineering. The course is in English, and draws on mathematics, computing, engineering and applied sciences. Students learn mathematical and computational models, methods and algorithms for engineering and science applications.

"We are educating a new group of professionals to use advanced tools from applied mathematics to solve challenging problems," says Moscariello, who describes Iwaniec's contributions as "intense and fruitful." "[The course] benefits scientists, mathematicians and engineers alike."

Iwaniec and Sbordone trace their relationship to a 1974 conference in Rome. The latter recalls how Iwaniec and his mentor at the University of Warsaw eventually took the field by storm with their analytic theory of quasi-conformal mapping, showing how angles between curves distort in a uniformly bounded manner. He and his mentor published their theory in 1982; a year later, Iwaniec, then in his mid-30s, was one of the youngest invited speakers at the International Congress of Mathematicians.

Iwaniec held visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, the University of Texas at Austin and New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences before permanently settling at Syracuse in 1986.

"Four years later, I invited Tadeusz to Capri for a conference on 'Methods of Real Analysis and PDEs [partial differential equations],'" says Sbordone, who is co-organising an international conference this summer in honour of Iwaniec's 70th birthday. "It was due to his generosity with sharing new ideas and methods that the collaboration, particularly among my younger colleagues and students, was phenomenal. It originated a series of long-term visits to Naples."

Iwaniec's first Italian sojourn coincided with his ground-breaking article in the Annals of Mathematics (Princeton University) about Hodge theory, helpful in studying algebraic geometry. The article, along with subsequent ones by Iwaniec and Sbordone, fired the imaginations of the Neapolitan students and led to breakthroughs in the study of PDEs.

"Tadeusz's unconditional support for his junior colleagues is phenomenal," says Uday Banerjee, professor and chair of the mathematics department at Syracuse. "He is extremely successful in mentoring graduate students because of his patience, compassion and sense of responsibility. I am proud to call him a friend and colleague."

A member of the Finland Distinguished Professor Program from 2009-2014, Iwaniec studies nonlinear analysis and geometric function theory. "I also am interested in topics that intersect modern areas of applied mathematics," he says, referring to nonlinear elasticity, materials science and the microstructure of crystals. "For instance, the theoretical prediction of failure of bodies caused by cracks appeals to researchers in the engineering fields. It is in this way that a broad cultural background is becoming more and more essential in both pure and applied mathematics."

The recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the "Philosophiae Doctor Honoris Causa" from the University of Helsinki in 2007, Iwaniec is involved with a range of research projects. Among them is electrical impedance tomography, a non-invasive imaging technique that helps doctors visualise human organs and body parts to better understand their physiological and anatomical makeup.

Iwaniec has co-authored more than two dozen papers on quasi-conformal hyper-elasticity with Jani Onninen, associate professor of mathematics at Syracuse. In 2011, they and fellow Syracuse professor Leonid Kovalev solved the 50-year-old Nitsche Conjecture, one of the oldest extremal problems in the theory of minimal surfaces.

Internationally respected, Iwaniec is a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Physical Sciences and Mathematics of Naples, the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and the Polish Academy of Sciences. He earned undergraduate and graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in mathematics, at the University of Warsaw in Poland.

Cathryn Newton, dean emerita of the College of Arts and Sciences of Syracuse University, professor of interdisciplinary and Earth sciences and a special advisor to the Chancellor and provost for faculty engagement, says Iwaniec is armed with an "incisive intellect."

"Tadeusz pursues these remarkable and highly productive mathematical collaborations throughout the world. Wherever he goes, ideas flow among colleagues," she says.

One of the oldest and largest academic units at Syracuse, the Department of Mathematics offers six graduate and undergraduate degree opportunities, ranging from pure to applied mathematics.