Luis Caffarelli
Luis Caffarelli | |
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Caffarelli in 2014 | |
| Born | Luis Ángel Caffarelli December 8, 1948 |
| Education | University of Buenos Aires (MS, PhD) |
| Spouse | Irene M. Gamba |
| Awards | Bôcher Memorial Prize (1984) Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1994) Rolf Schock Prize (2005) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2009) Wolf Prize (2012) Shaw Prize (2018) Abel Prize (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin Institute for Advanced Study University of Chicago CIMS University of Minnesota |
| Thesis | Sobre Conjugación y Sumabilidad de Series de Jacobi (On Conjugation and Summability of the Jacobi Series) (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | Calixto Calderón |
| Doctoral students | Guido De Philippis Ovidiu Savin Eduardo V. Teixeira |
Luis Ángel Caffarelli (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlwis 'anxel kafaˈɾeli]; born December 8, 1948) is an Argentine-American mathematician. He studies partial differential equations and their applications. Caffarelli is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, and the winner of the 2023 Abel Prize.