André Neves
{{short description|Portuguese mathematician (born 1975)}}
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|birth_date = 1975
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|birth_place = Lisbon, Portugal
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|fields = Mathematics
|workplaces = University of Chicago
Imperial College London
Princeton University
|alma_mater = Stanford University
Instituto Superior Técnico
|doctoral_advisor = Richard Schoen
|thesis_title = Singularities for Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow
|thesis_year = 2005
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|known_for = Willmore conjecture
Freedman–He–Wang conjecture
Min-Oo Conjecture
Works on geometric flows
Equidistribution of minimal hypersurfaces
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|awards = Leverhulme Prize (2012)
Whitehead Prize (2013)
Veblen Prize in Geometry (2016)
New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2015)
|website= {{URL|http://math.uchicago.edu/~aneves/}}
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André da Silva Graça Arroja Neves (born 1975, Lisbon) is a Portuguese mathematician and a professor at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2016. In 2012, jointly with Fernando Codá Marques, he solved the Willmore conjecture.
Neves received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford University under the direction of Richard Melvin Schoen.{{MathGenealogy|id=99678}}
Contributions
Jointly with Hugh Bray, he computed the Yamabe invariant of . In 2012, jointly with Fernando Codá Marques, he solved the Willmore conjecture (Thomas Willmore, 1965). In the same year, jointly with Ian Agol and Fernando Codá Marques, he solved the Freedman–He–Wang conjecture (Freedman–He–Wang, 1994). In 2017, jointly with Kei Irie and Fernando Codá Marques, he solved Yau's conjecture (formulated by Shing-Tung Yau in 1982) in the generic case.{{cite arXiv|last1=Irie|first1=Kei|last2=Marques|first2=Fernando Codá|author-link2=Fernando Codá Marques|last3=Neves|first3=André|author-link3=André Neves|eprint=1710.10752|title=Density of minimal hypersurfaces for generic metrics|class=math.DG|year=2017}}
Honors and awards
He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2012, the LMS Whitehead Prize{{cite web|url=http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/news/13/08/19/lms-prizes-2013-announced|title=News: LMS prizes for 2013 announced - EMS |website=www.euro-math-soc.eu}} in 2013, invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul in 2014, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/news/2015/10/wolfson-merit-awards/|title=Royal Society announces recipients of prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards|website=royalsociety.org}} in 2015.
In November 2015 he was awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize{{cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L164|title=Breakthrough Prize – Mathematics Laureates – André Arroja Neves|website=breakthroughprize.org}} in November 2015, "for outstanding contributions to several areas of differential geometry, including work on scalar curvature, geometric flows, and his solution with Codá Marques of the 50-year-old Willmore Conjecture."{{cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/News/29|title=Breakthrough Prize – Breakthrough Prize Awarded $22 Million In Science Prizes |website=breakthroughprize.org}}
Jointly with Fernando Codá Marques he was awarded the 2016 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=2866|title=American Mathematical Society|website=www.ams.org}}
In 2018 he received a Simons Investigator Award.{{cite web |url= http://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-and-physical-science/simons-investigators/simons-investigators-awardees |title= Simons Investigator Awardees |publisher= Simons Foundation |access-date= 2018-09-30 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170806190912/https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-and-physical-science/simons-investigators/simons-investigators-awardees/ |archive-date= 2017-08-06 |url-status= dead }}
He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020.{{Cite journal|title=AAAS Fellows Elected|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202007/rnoti-p1051.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society}}
References
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External links
- [http://math.uchicago.edu/~aneves/ André Neves's home page]
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Category:21st-century Portuguese mathematicians
Category:Academics from Lisbon
Category:Differential geometers
Category:Whitehead Prize winners
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Category:Stanford University alumni
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Category:Academics of Imperial College London
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Category:Princeton University faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences