Luis Caffarelli

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Luis Caffarelli
Born	December 8, 1948(1948-12-08) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Institutions	University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Advanced Study,Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,University of Minnesota
Doctoral advisor	Calixto Calderon
Notable awards	Rolf Schock Prize (2005) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2009)

Luis A. Caffarelli (born December 8 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian mathematician and leader in the field of partial differential equations and their applications.

Caffarelli obtained his Masters of Science (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) at the University of Buenos Aires. He currently holds the Sid Richardson Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. 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 permanent member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1991 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded Doctor Honoris Causa from l'Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and Universidad de La Plata, Argentina. He received the Bôcher Prize in 1984.

Caffarelli is the world's leading expert in free boundary problems for nonlinear partial differential equations. He is also famous for his contributions to the Monge-Ampere equation. Recently, he has taken an interest in homogenization. A highly cited and one of his most celebrated results regards the Partial regularity of suitable weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations obtained in 1982 in collaboration with Louis Nirenberg and Robert V. Kohn

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.

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In addition to over two hundred articles in refereed academic journals, Caffarelli has coauthored two books:

1. Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations by Luis Caffarelli and Xavier Cabré (1995), American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-0437-5
2. A Geometric Approach to Free Boundary Problems by Luis Caffarelli and Sandro Salsa (2005), American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-3784-2

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