Dr Grzegorz Graff from the Faculty of Technical Physics and Applied Mathematics of the Gdańsk University of Technology received over 500,000 PLN for his project “Topological invariants: the structure of space and its mappings” in the Polish-Chinese SHENG 1 competition. As part of the project, the Gdansk team will cooperate with a group of scientists from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science in Beijing.

The aim of the project is to examine some important classes of space (compact manifolds, Lie’s groups, surfaces, polyhedrons) and their mappings in each other using the so-called “Topological invariants”, which are very useful tools in topology and theory of dynamic systems. The expected results of the project can be used in other fields of exact sciences, especially in physics and game theory.

SHENG is a competition for research projects conducted by the National Science Center in cooperation with the National Natural Science Foundation of China.