M. Salah Baouendi

Mohammed Salah Baouendi (; October 12, 1937 in Tunis – December 24, 2011 in La Jolla, California) was a Tunisian-American mathematician who worked as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. His research concerned partial differential equations and the theory of several complex variables.

Education and career Baouendi moved from Tunis to France after finishing his Baccalauréat in the high school Sadiki College, and earned a licence (a French undergraduate degree) in 1961 from the Sorbonne. He completed a doctorate in 1967 from the University of Paris-Sud (then part of the University of Paris), under the supervision of Bernard Malgrange, with a dissertation concerning elliptic operators. Schwartz attempted to secure for him a suitable academic position in Tunis, in which he would be allowed to conduct research and collaborate with mathematicians from other countries, He was a co-founder of two journals, Communications in Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Research Letters. In 2005 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.