Luis Caffarelli
{{short description|Argentine mathematician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
|name = Luis Caffarelli
|image = Caffarelli en el Predio del CONICET Santa Fe.jpg
|image_size = 250
|caption = Caffarelli in 2014{{cite web |url=https://santafe.conicet.gov.ar/luis-caffarelli-la-matematica-y-su-historia-con-santa-fe/ |title=Luis Caffarelli, la matemática y su historia con Santa Fe}}
|birth_name = Luis Ángel Caffarelli
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|12|8}}
|birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina
|death_date =
|death_place =
|education = {{nobr|University of Buenos Aires (MS, PhD)}}
|spouse = Irene M. Gamba{{cite web |last=Chang |first=Kenneth |date=2023-03-22 |title=Abel Prize Goes to Mathematician Who Studied Equations That Describe Nature |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/science/abel-prize-math-luis-caffarelli.html |newspaper=The New York Times}}
|awards = Bôcher Memorial Prize (1984)
{{nobr|Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1994)}}
Rolf Schock Prize (2005)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2009)
Wolf Prize (2012)
Shaw Prize (2018)
Abel Prize (2023)
|fields = Mathematics
|workplaces = University of Texas at Austin
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Chicago
CIMS
University of Minnesota
|thesis_title = Sobre Conjugación y Sumabilidad
de Series de Jacobi
(On Conjugation and Summability
of the Jacobi Series)
|thesis_url = https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/download/tesis/tesis_n1430_Caffarelli.pdf
|thesis_year = 1971
|doctoral_advisor = Calixto Calderón
|doctoral_students = Guido De Philippis
Ovidiu Savin
Luis Silvestre
Eduardo V. Teixeira
}}
Luis Ángel Caffarelli ({{IPA|es|ˈlwis anˈxel kaffaˈɾeʎi}}; born December 8, 1948) is an Argentine-American{{cite web |last=Caffarelli |first=Luis Ángel |title=Curriculum Vitae |url=https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/caffarel/2021-caffarelli-cv.pdf}} mathematician. He studies partial differential equations and their applications. Caffarelli is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, and the winner of the 2023 Abel Prize.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-22 |title=Mathematics' Highest Prize Awarded to UT Professor from Argentina |url=https://global.utexas.edu/news/mathematics-highest-prize-awarded-ut-professor-argentina |access-date=2024-05-23 |website=global.utexas.edu |language=en}}
Career
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.[https://www.ams.org/notices/201304/rnoti-p474.pdf Elaine Kehoe. "Aschbacher and Caffarelli Awarded 2012 Wolf Prize", Notices of the AMS, V. 60 N. 3. April 2013, pp. 474–475][http://historiamatematicachilena.bligoo.com/media/users/3/178983/files/17495/Caffarelli.pdf Juan Luis Vázquez. "Entrevista a Luis Caffarelli, Steele Prize de la American Mathematical Society 2009", La Gaceta de la RSME, Vol. 12 (2009), N. 3, pp. 449–455] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091502/http://historiamatematicachilena.bligoo.com/media/users/3/178983/files/17495/Caffarelli.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }} (in Spanish) He currently holds the Sid Richardson Chair at the University of Texas at Austin and is core faculty at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.{{cite web|title="Luis A. Caffarelli|url=https://oden.utexas.edu/people/directory/Luis%20A.%20Caffarelli/}} 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.
Research
Caffarelli published "The regularity of free boundaries in higher dimensions" in 1977 in Acta Mathematica.{{Citation| last=Caffarelli| first=Luis| title=The regularity of free boundaries in higher dimensions| journal=Acta Mathematica| volume=139| pages=155–184| year=1977| doi=10.1007/bf02392236| doi-access=free}} One of his most cited results regards the Partial regularity of suitable weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations; it was obtained in 1982 in collaboration with Louis Nirenberg and Robert V. Kohn.{{Citation| last1=Caffarelli| first1=Luis| last2=Kohn| first2=Robert| last3=Nirenberg| first3=Louis| title=Partial regularity of suitable weak solutions of the navier-stokes equations| journal=Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics| volume=35| issue=6| pages=771–831| year=1982| doi=10.1002/cpa.3160350604}}
Awards and recognition
In 1991 he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded honorary doctorates by the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, the University of Notre Dame, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and the Universidad de La Plata, Argentina. He received the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1984. He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.{{cite web|title=List of ISI highly cited researchers|url=http://highlycited.com}}
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.{{cite web |title=2009 Steele Prizes |url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200904/rtx090400488p.pdf |issn=1088-9477 |access-date=2024-01-15}} In 2012 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Michael Aschbacher) and became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 2012-11-10. In 2017 he gave the Łojasiewicz Lecture (on "Some models of segregation") at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.{{Cite web|url=http://www.im.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/lojasiewicz/2018|title=S. Lojasiewicz Lecture 2018|website=www.im.uj.edu.pl|access-date=2018-09-23}}
In 2018, he was named a SIAM Fellow{{citation|url=https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/siam-announces-class-of-2018-fellows|title=SIAM Announces Class of 2018 Fellows|magazine=SIAM News|date=March 29, 2018}} and he received the Shaw Prize in Mathematics.{{Cite web |url=http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=3&twoid=106 |title=Shaw Prize 2018 |access-date=2018-05-14 |archive-date=2018-09-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902023627/http://www.shawprize.org/en/shaw.php?tmp=3&twoid=106 |url-status=dead }}
In 2023, he was awarded the Abel Prize "for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary problems and the Monge–Ampère equation".{{cite web |url=https://abelprize.no/citation/citation-luis-caffarelli |title=Prize winner 2023 |publisher=The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters|access-date=22 March 2023}}{{cite web |last1=De Ambrosio |first1=Martín |url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/a-nivel-de-los-grandes-del-siglo-luis-cafarelli-el-messi-de-la-matematica-que-gano-el-equivalente-al-nid22032023/ |title=A nivel de los grandes del siglo: Luis Caffarelli, el Messi de la matemática que ganó el equivalente al Nobel de la disciplina |website=LA NACION |date=22 March 2023 |access-date=22 March 2023}}{{Cite journal |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00833-4 |title=Abel Prize: Pioneer of 'Smooth' Physics Wins Top Maths Award |year=2023 |doi=10.1038/d41586-023-00833-4 |accessdate=2023-03-30 |last1=Castelvecchi |first1=Davide |journal=Nature |volume=615 |issue=7954 |page=777 |pmid=36949131 |bibcode=2023Natur.615..777C |s2cid=257695618 }} Nature Vol.615 No.7954, 30 March 2023, News p777
Bibliography
Caffarelli has coauthored two books:
- Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations by Luis Caffarelli and Xavier Cabré (1995), American Mathematical Society. {{isbn|0-8218-0437-5}}
- A Geometric Approach to Free Boundary Problems by Luis Caffarelli and Sandro Salsa (2005), American Mathematical Society. {{isbn|0-8218-3784-2}}
References
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External links
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- [http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/caffarel/ Home page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060916153800/http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/caffarel/vita.html Biographical data]
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