Ari Laptev (born August 10, 1950) is a mathematician working on the
spectral theory In mathematics, spectral theory is an inclusive term for theories extending the eigenvector and eigenvalue theory of a single square matrix to a much broader theory of the structure of operators in a variety of mathematical spaces. It is a result ...
of
partial differential equations
In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a multivariable function.
The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be solved for, similarly to ...
.
His PhD was obtained in 1978 at
Leningrad State University under the supervision of Michael Solomyak.
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, Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society
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, June 2007, Issue 64; p. 7
He is currently Professor at both the
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* KTH Royal Institute of Technology, a university in Sweden
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in Stockholm and
Imperial College London
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.
From 2001 to 2003 Laptev served as the President of the Swedish Mathematical Society.
In the years 2007–2010 he served as the President of the
European Mathematical Society
The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current ...
.
Marta Sanz-Solé
Marta Sanz-Solé (born 19 January 1952 in Sabadell, Barcelona) is a Catalan mathematician specializing in probability theory.
She obtained her PhD in 1978 from the University of Barcelona under the supervision of David Nualart.
Career
Sanz-Sol� ...
An Introduction to the European Mathematical Society
, European Mathematical Society
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. Accessed 2011-05-15.
In April 2007 he was awarded the
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
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It was administered by the Royal Society and jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK Office of Science and Technology, to provide ...
.
He was from 2011 to 2018 the Director of
Institut Mittag-Leffler.
He is Editor-in-Chief of
Acta Mathematica, Editor-in-Chief of
Arkiv för Matematik, Deputy Chief Editor of the "Journal of Spectral Theory", Editor of the "Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences", Editor of "Problems in Mathematical Analysis", and Editor of "Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii. Matematika".
References
Other sources
*http://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~alaptev/CV/Laptev_CV_Imperial.pdf
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1950 births
Living people
Ukrainian mathematicians
Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders
Directors of the Mittag-Leffler Institute
Presidents of the European Mathematical Society