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Michael Struwe

b. 1955

German mathematician

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About Michael Struwe

Born 1955. Michael Struwe is a German mathematician and university teacher.

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".

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. 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.

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.

Major publications

Struwe, Michael. On the evolution of harmonic maps in higher dimensions. J. Differential Geom. 28 (1988), no. 3, 485–502.

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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Important facts

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Education
University of Bonn
Employers
ETH Zurich
Awards
Cantor medal; Gauss Lectureship; Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Michael Struwe's

Frequently asked questions

Who is Michael Struwe?

German mathematician

When was Michael Struwe born?

Michael Struwe was born on 6 October 1955 in Wuppertal.

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Michael Struwe is a mathematician and university teacher.

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Michael Struwe is German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Michael Struwe

· Wikidata: Q1929509

· DBpedia: Michael Struwe

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