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Fields
  
Mathematics

Role
  
Mathematician


Name
  
Luis Caffarelli

Doctoral students
  
Notable students
  
Ovidiu Savin

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Born
  
December 8, 1948 (age 75) Buenos Aires, Argentina (
1948-12-08
)

Institutions
  
University of Texas at AustinInstitute for Advanced StudyUniversity of ChicagoCourant Institute of Mathematical SciencesUniversity of Minnesota

Notable awards
  
Bocher Memorial Prize (1984)Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1994)Rolf Schock Prize (2005)Leroy P. Steele Prize (2009)Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2012)

Education
  
University of Buenos Aires

Awards
  
Leroy P. Steele Prize, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Bocher Memorial Prize, Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics

Books
  
A Geometric Approach, Nonlinear Partial Differenti, The Obstacle Problem

Similar People
  
Louis Nirenberg, Ovidiu Savin, Alessio Figalli, Ennio de Giorgi, Haim Brezis

Doctoral advisor
  
Calixto Calderon

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Luis A. Caffarelli (born December 8, 1948) is an Argentine mathematician and luminary in the field of partial differential equations and their applications.

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Career

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Caffarelli was born and grew up in Buenos Aires. He obtained his Masters of Science (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) at the University of Buenos Aires. His Ph.D. advisor was Calixto Calderón. He currently holds the Sid Richardson Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. He also has been a professor at the University of Minnesota, the University of Chicago, and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. From 1986 to 1996 he was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Important results

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Caffarelli received great recognition with his breakthrough paper "The regularity of free boundaries in higher dimensions" published in 1977 in Acta Mathematica. Since then, he has been considered one of the world's leading experts in free boundary problems and nonlinear partial differential equations. He developed several regularity results for fully nonlinear elliptic equations including the Monge-Ampere equation. He is also famous for his contributions to homogenization. Recently, he has taken an interest in Integro-differential equations.

One of his most cited and celebrated results regards the Partial regularity of suitable weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations, obtained in 1982 in collaboration with Louis Nirenberg and Robert V. Kohn.

Awards and recognition

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In 1991 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded Doctor Honoris Causa from l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris; University of Notre Dame; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Universidad de La Plata, Argentina. He received the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1984. Caffarelli is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.

In 2003 Konex Foundation from Argentina granted him the Diamond Konex Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Argentina, as the most important Scientist of his country in the last decade. In 2005, he received the prestigious Rolf Schock Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "for his important contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations". He also received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Mathematics in 2009. In 2012 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Michael Aschbacher) and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

References

Luis Caffarelli Wikipedia