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Michael Struwe

{{short description|German mathematician (born 1955)}}

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|10|6|df=y}}

|birth_place = Wuppertal, Germany

|image = Michael Struwe.jpg

|caption = Struwe in Oberwolfach, 2006

|occupation = Mathematician

|alma_mater = University of Bonn

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Michael Struwe (born 6 October 1955 in Wuppertal) is a German mathematician who specializes in calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations. He won the 2012 Cantor medal from the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung for "outstanding achievements in the field of geometric analysis, calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations".{{cite web|title=Cantor medal for Michael Struwe, von Kaven-prize for Eva Viehmann |url=http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/node/2938 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131211121744/http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/node/2938 |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 December 2013 |work=European Mathematical Society |accessdate=11 December 2013 |year=2012 }}

He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, gaining his PhD in 1980 with the title Infinitely Many Solutions for Superlinear, Anticoercive Elliptic Boundary Value Problems without Oddness.{{cite web|title=Michael Struwe|url=http://genealogy.math.uni-bielefeld.de/id.php?id=54337|work=Mathematical Genealogy Project|accessdate=10 December 2013}} He took research positions in Paris and at ETH Zürich before gaining his habilitation in Bonn in 1984. Since 1986, he has been working at ETH Zürich, initially as an assistant professor, becoming a full professor in 1993. His specialisms included nonlinear partial differential equations and calculus of variations.

He is joint editor of the journals Calculus of Variations, Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, International Mathematical Research Notices and Mathematische Zeitschrift.

His publications include the book Variational methods (Applications to nonlinear PDE and Hamiltonian systems) (Springer-Verlag, 1990), which was praised by Jürgen Jost as "very useful" with an "impressive range of often difficult examples".{{cite journal|last=Jost|first=Jürgen|title=Variational methods (Applications to nonlinear PDE and Hamiltonian systems)|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|date=January 1993|volume=28|series=New series|issue=1|pages=149–153|authorlink=Jürgen Jost|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-1993-00339-2|doi-access=free}}

Struwe was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the German Mathematical Society in 2011. In 2012, Struwe was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 19 January 2014.

Major publications

  • {{cite journal | last1=Giaquinta | first1=Mariano | last2=Struwe | first2=Michael | title=On the partial regularity of weak solutions of nonlinear parabolic systems | journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=179 | issue=4 | year=1982 | issn=0025-5874 | doi=10.1007/bf01215058 | pages=437–451| s2cid=121187999 }}
  • {{cite journal | last=Struwe | first=Michael | title=A global compactness result for elliptic boundary value problems involving limiting nonlinearities | journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=187 | issue=4 | year=1984 | issn=0025-5874 | doi=10.1007/bf01174186 | pages=511–517| s2cid=120970687 }}
  • {{cite journal | last=Struwe | first=Michael | title=On the evolution of harmonic mappings of Riemannian surfaces | journal=Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici | publisher=European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH | volume=60 | issue=1 | year=1985 | issn=0010-2571 | doi=10.1007/bf02567432 | pages=558–581| s2cid=122295509 }}
  • {{cite journal | last1=Cerami | first1=G | last2=Solimini | first2=S | last3=Struwe | first3=M | title=Some existence results for superlinear elliptic boundary value problems involving critical exponents | journal=Journal of Functional Analysis | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=69 | issue=3 | year=1986 | issn=0022-1236 | doi=10.1016/0022-1236(86)90094-7 | pages=289–306| doi-access=free }}
  • {{cite journal | last=Struwe | first=Michael | title=On partial regularity results for the navier-stokes equations | journal=Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics | publisher=Wiley | volume=41 | issue=4 | year=1988 | issn=0010-3640 | doi=10.1002/cpa.3160410404 | pages=437–458}}
  • {{cite journal | last=Struwe | first=Michael | title=The existence of surfaces of constant mean curvature with free boundaries | journal=Acta Mathematica | publisher=International Press of Boston | volume=160 | year=1988 | issn=0001-5962 | doi=10.1007/bf02392272 | pages=19–64| s2cid=121385750 | doi-access=free }}
  • Struwe, Michael. On the evolution of harmonic maps in higher dimensions. J. Differential Geom. 28 (1988), no. 3, 485–502.
  • {{cite journal | last1=Chen | first1=Yunmei | last2=Struwe | first2=Michael | title=Existence and partial regularity results for the heat flow for harmonic maps | journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=201 | issue=1 | year=1989 | issn=0025-5874 | doi=10.1007/bf01161997 | pages=83–103| s2cid=11210055 }}
  • {{cite journal | last1=Shatah | first1=Jalal | last2=Struwe | first2=Michael | title=Regularity Results for Nonlinear Wave Equations | journal=The Annals of Mathematics | publisher=JSTOR | volume=138 | issue=3 | year=1993 | issn=0003-486X | doi=10.2307/2946554 | page=503| jstor=2946554 }}
  • {{cite journal | last1=Shatah | first1=Jalal | last2=Struwe | first2=Michael |title=Well-posedness in the energy space for semilinear wave equations with critical growth | journal=International Mathematics Research Notices | publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) | volume=1994 | issue=7 | year=1994 | issn=1073-7928 | doi=10.1155/s1073792894000346 | page=303| doi-access=free }}
  • Struwe, Michael; Tarantello, Gabriella. On multivortex solutions in Chern-Simons gauge theory. Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. Sez. B Artic. Ric. Mat. (8) 1 (1998), no. 1, 109–121.

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External links

  • [http://www.math.ethz.ch/~struwe/ page at ETH]

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