The name of the American economist Alvin Eliot Rothsince 2012 Nobel Prize for the economy, will be definitively linked to the University of Messina which attributed him, yesterday, the title of honorary partner of the Peloritana Academy of the Pericolanti. The list of illustrious dangerous partners of the prestigious university academy is lengthened, founded in 1729 with the aim of promoting the increase in sciences, letters and fine arts. An institution that counts more than six hundred members between honorary, emeritus, ordinary, aggregates and other social categories. To deliver the prestigious recognition to Prof Roth, yesterday afternoon, during a short but intense ceremony held in the Pericolanti room, the rector Giovanna Spatari As honorary president of the Academy, flanked by the two vice -presidents Melchiorre Briguglio And Giovanni Cupaiuolothe vicar proreor Giuseppe Giordanothe prof Michele Limosani promoter of the initiative and numerous teachers of the Department of Economics including the Prof Antonio Asensio Mirallles who collaborates with the Nobel Prize and will coordinate the international workshop “Matching in Practice”.
The event scheduled this afternoon and tomorrow at the Department of Economics (Aula Magna 2), with the interventions of Prof Roth, who after receiving the recognition said: “I am happy to receive this important title. He is rewarding for my work. The University of Messina is a reality particularly attentive to the themes of market design, exchange and donation of organs. He is doing with the research group led by Prof Miralles of the Department of Economics, with whom I congratulate me, a good job that I follow with interest “. Prof. Spatari has been happy to share the initiative of the conferral of the honorary title, in the context of the Messina scientific event.” It is a reason for pride for our university – he said – host Prof Roth. An internationally renowned economist for his studies on the configuration of the markets “.
Prof Limosani also underlined the value of the participation of the New York Nobel Nobel and its presence in the Messina workshop which rewards the work done by the Department of Economics. Two conferences planned with Roth. The first, today at 2 pm, with a lesson on the Reni economy and disputes, while tomorrow, at 12.45 pm, the international comparison panel on organ donor exchange programs with the participation of the director of the National Transplant Center Giuseppe Feltrin. Among the most illustrious honorary partners of the Pericolant Academy are quoted another Nobel Prize, the physicist Albert Fert who received the title in 2016, and the director and Oscar -winning, Giuseppe Tornatore appointed partner in 2018.