José F. Escobar
José F. Escobar | |
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| Born | December 20, 1954 Manizales, Colombia |
| Died | January 3, 2004 (aged 49) |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.) IMPA (M.S.) University of Valle (B.S.) |
| Known for | Boundary Yamabe problem |
| Awards | Presidential Faculty Fellowship (1992) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Differential geometry Partial differential equations |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Schoen |
| Doctoral students | Fernando Codá Marques |
José Fernando "Chepe" Escobar (born 20 December 1954, in Manizales, Colombia) was a Colombian mathematician known for his work on differential geometry and partial differential equations. He was a professor at Cornell University. He contributed to the solution of the Yamabe problem on manifolds with boundary.