COMPETITION

COMPETITION

The Serbian Academy of Nonlinear Sciences (SANS) announces a competition for progress in the understanding of postvibrational interactions (Epstein effect). The award consists of 1,000 euros and a corresponding SANS diploma. Nominations with appropriate attachments are received until end of October 2025 to the email: sann.akademija@gmail.com. The prize will be awarded to the best published work that represents significant progress in the theoretical understanding of postvibrational interactions. The result of the competition will be announced in December 2025.

Description. There exists the modulating effect of postvibrational interactions which has been discovered and deeply discussed on experimental level in https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15101914; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16080958. Some attempts to understand it on theoretical level have been done in https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16050572; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11182-024-03127-y. Still consistent physical explanation of this so-called Epstein effect is not satisfactory. It is  expected that some mathematical physics  theoretical model to explain the phenomenon will be proposed and awarded.

ANNOUNCEMENT–15.11.2025. 

 In connection with the COMPETITION-1.01.2025 for progress in the understanding of postvibrational interactions (Epstein effect), SANS announces the corresponding award for the year 2025. The winner of the award is Dr. Vasilis K.  Oikonomou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) for his scientific contribution to the progress of understanding post-vibrational interactions in chemical fluids (Epstein effect). The award consists of 1,000 euros and a corresponding Diploma. SANS congratulates the winner of this award and wishes him new significant scientific results. (Committee for the award: Branko Dragovich, president of SANS, chair; Željko Čupic, general secretary of SANS; Emilio Elizalde, ICE-CSIC, Barcelona; Nataša Ž. Mišić, Lola Institute, Belgrade.)