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This year’s Science Prize for the Promotion of Mathematical Sciences has been awarded to the Italian mathematician Luigi Ambrosio. With the award the Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner Foundation honors his outstanding contributions and the profound impact of the school he has established in the fields of calculus of variations, geometric measure theory, and differential equations.
During the public award ceremony, Professor Bernd Kirchheim from the Mathematical Institute of the University of Leipzig delivered the laudation for Luigi Ambrosio, recognizing him as an outstanding scientist who has, over the past years, successfully combined his impressive research activities with his responsibilities as Director of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
He particularly emphasized the awardee’s extraordinary ability to combine a broad range of ideas from diverse fields, enabling him to transfer the powerful methods of modern analysis from Euclidean spaces to very general metric settings. In this way, he has made fundamental contributions to the theory of optimal transport, the metric formulation of gradient flows, and their interplay – in addition to numerous other valuable contributions to current research topics. His monographs on both topics (with Gigli, Savaré and Bruè, Semola) are extremely influential on the young researchers in these fields.
Luigi Ambrosio studied at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore, where he later returned in the succession of Ennio de Giorgi after holding several professorships. He has also been a long-term visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. He has been and remains a leading figure in the Italian school of calculus of variations, with an impressive international reputation. Fields Medalists and members of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) are among his students.
Luigi Ambrosio has received numerous distinguished awards, including the Fermat Prize, the Riemann Prize, the Balzan Prize, and the Nemmers Prize. He has also been invited twice to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians ICM, delivering a plenary lecture in 2018.
The Teubner Prize for the Promotion of Mathematical Sciences was established in 2014 on initiative of the founder and supporter of the Teubner Foundation Jürgen Weiß. Since then, it has been awarded every two years to outstanding scientists. The prize follows on from the "Alfred Ackermann Memorial Prize for the Promotion of Mathematical Sciences", which was awarded in Leipzig from 1914 to 1941 and whose first laureate was Felix Klein.
The Teubner Foundation was established in 2003 in the House of Books in Leipzig with the purpose of promoting science and research in the spirit of Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner. It preserves the memory of the successful Saxon publishing bookseller, company founder, book printer, typographer and Leipzig city councilor in the public awareness.
Board of Trustees of the Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner Foundation
Prof. Dr. Anna Wienard - Anna.Wienhard@mis.mpg.de
Prof. Dr. Bernd Kirchheim - Bernd.Kirchheim@math.uni-leipzig.de
Prof. Dr. Matthias Schwarz - Matthias.Schwarz@math.uni-leipzig.de
Learn more about the awardee! On the occasion of the award ceremony, Luigi Ambrosio was interviewed by Marco Inversi, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, about his academic career, his way of thinking, his interests, and the role of mathematics in society.
https://www.sns.it/en/persona/luigi-ambrosio Homepage of the laureate Professor Luigi Ambrosio
Prof. Luigi Ambrosio (left) with Prof. Bernd Kirchheim (right)
Source: Henrike Grützner
Copyright: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
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