Rowan Killip
{{Short description|American mathematician}}
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| name = Rowan Killip
| image = UCLA Mathematician Rowan Killip teaching probability.jpg
| caption = Killip teaching undergraduate probability in 2024
| spouse = Monica Vișan{{cite web |url=https://www.math.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/newsletter/nl2019.pdf |title=Fall 2019 Newsletter of the UCLA Mathematics Department|website=UCLA Mathematics Department |access-date=2024-03-19}}
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| work_institutions = UCLA
| alma_mater = University of Auckland, California Institute of Technology
| doctoral_advisor = Barry Simon
| known_for = Partial differential equations, Nonlinear Schrödinger equation
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Rowan Killip is an American–New Zealand mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles whose work focuses on mathematical physics, particularly partial differential equations. He won a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2004{{cite web |url=https://sloan.org/fellows-database?page=238
|title=Fellows Database |website=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation|access-date=2024-03-19}} and a Simons Fellowship in Mathematics in 2015.{{cite web |url=https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/?tab=awardees |title=Simons Fellows in Mathematics |website=Simons Foundation|access-date=2024-03-19}} In 2023, he won, along with Monica Vișan, the Frontiers of Science Award at the International Congress for Basic Science in Beijing, China for proving the global well-posedness of the Korteweg–De Vries equation in the Sobolev space H−1.{{cite arXiv |title="KdV is wellposed in H^{−1}" |eprint=1802.04851 |last1=Killip |first1=Rowan |last2=Visan |first2=Monica |date=2018 |class=math.AP }}{{cite web |url=https://ww3.math.ucla.edu/professors-rowan-killip-and-monica-visan-receive-the2023-frontiers-of-science-award/ |title=Professors Rowan Killip and Monica Visan receive the 2023 Frontiers of Science Award |website=UCLA Department of Mathematics |access-date=2024-03-19}}
Early life and education
Killip was an undergraduate at the University of Auckland.{{cite web |url=https://nzmathsoc.org.nz/downloads/newsletters/NZMSnews125_Dec2015.pdf |title=December 2015 Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society |website=New Zealand Mathematical Society |access-date=2024-03-19}} He completed his Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 2000. His doctoral advisor was Barry Simon; his doctoral thesis was titled Perturbations of One-Dimensional Schrödinger Operators Preserving the Absolutely Continuous Spectrum.{{cite web|url=https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=49322|title=Rowan Killip – The Mathematics Genealogy Project|work=nodak.edu|access-date=2024-03-19}}
Career
Following his doctoral studies, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, the Institute for Advanced Study,{{cite web |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/rowan-killip
|title=Scholars |website=Institute for Advanced Study |access-date=2024-03-19}} and the Mittag-Leffler Institute before returning to Caltech again.{{cite web |url=https://nzmathsoc.org.nz/downloads/newsletters/NZMSnews125_Dec2015.pdf |title=December 2015 Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society |website=New Zealand Mathematical Society |access-date=2024-03-19}} He joined the faculty at UCLA as an assistant professor in 2003, becoming full professor in 2009.{{cite web |url=https://www.math.ucla.edu/~killip/Killip_CV_2023.pdf |title=Rowan Killip CV |website=UCLA Department of Mathematics|access-date=2024-03-19}}
Selected publications
Killip's research papers include:
- {{citation
| last1 = Killip | first1 = Rowan
| last2 = Tao | first2 = Terence |author2-link=Terence Tao
| last3 = Vișan | first3 = Monica|author3-link=Monica Vișan
| arxiv = 0707.3188
| doi = 10.4171/JEMS/180 | doi-access=free
| issue = 6
| journal = Journal of the European Mathematical Society
| mr = 2557134
| pages = 1203–1258
| title = The cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation in two dimensions with radial data
| volume = 11
| year = 2009}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Killip | first1 = Rowan
| last2 = Vişan | first2 = Monica|author2-link=Monica Vișan
| arxiv = 0804.1018
| doi = 10.1353/ajm.0.0107
| issue = 2
| journal = American Journal of Mathematics
| mr = 2654778
| pages = 361–424
| title = The focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in dimensions five and higher
| volume = 132
| year = 2010| s2cid = 1068572
}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Killip | first1 = Rowan
| last2 = Vişan | first2 = Monica|author2-link=Monica Vișan
| contribution = Nonlinear Schrödinger equations at critical regularity
| contribution-url = https://www.math.ucla.edu/~visan/ClayLectureNotes.pdf
| mr = 3098643
| pages = 325–437
| publisher = Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI
| series = Clay Math. Proc.
| title = Evolution equations
| volume = 17
| year = 2013}}
- {{citation
| last1 = Killip | first1 = Rowan
| last2 = Vişan | first2 = Monica|author2-link=Monica Vișan
| title = KdV is well-posed in H^{–1}
| mr = 3990604
| arxiv = 1802.04851
| doi = 10.4007/annals.2019.190.1.4
| pages = 249–305
| publisher = Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
| series =
| journal = Annals of Mathematics
| volume = 190
| year = 2019}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.math.ucla.edu/~killip/}}
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Category:21st-century American mathematicians
Category:21st-century New Zealand mathematicians