Reserved for the best works of the last 6 years on topics concerning mathematical analysis, the Bôcher Memorial Prize is the oldest award assigned by the American Mathematical Society. De Lellis, now a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, was a student of the undergraduate course and the postgraduate course at the Scuola Normale.
Pisa, November 13, 2019
The Bôcher Memorial Prize, a prestigious award assigned by the American Mathematical Society every three years, has been awarded for this year's edition to Camillo De Lellis, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and former student of the Scuola Normale Superiore.
Professor De Lellis received the award for his work on mathematical analysis: in particular in the field of dissipative continuous solutions of Euler equations, and of the theory of regularity of minimal surfaces. On these topics De Lellis has recently published the following scientific papers: "Dissipative continuous Euler flows," Inventiones Mathematicae 193, (2013) in collaboration with László Szekelyhidi, and "Regularity of area-minimizing currents III: blow-up," Ann. of Math. 183 (2016), in collaboration with Emanuele Spadaro.
Along with De Lellis, Lawrence Guth from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laure Saint-Raymond from the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon have also received the Bôcher Memorial Prize 2020.
The Bôcher prize is awarded to the most significant mathematical analysis published in the 6 years prior to the assignation of the award. Historically, it is the first to be offered by the American Mathematical Society, founded in memory of Maxime Bôcher, president of the AMS from 1909 to 1910.
The awarding ceremony will take place on Thursday 16 January during the session of the joint mathematics meetings of 2020 in Denver.
De Lellis, an undergraduate student of the Scuola Normale and a student of the University of Pisa from 1995 to 1999 as well as a postgraduate student at the Scuola Normale from 1999 to 2002 (he studied with professor Luigi Ambrosio), has already received other important awards during his career, such as the Stampacchia Medal (2009) and the Fermat Prize (2013).
