Gustavo A. Ponce (born 20 April 1952 in

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) is a Venezuelan

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Education and career

Ponce graduated from the

Central University of Venezuela The Central University of Venezuela (Spanish: ''Universidad Central de Venezuela''; UCV) is a public university of Venezuela located in Caracas. It is widely held to be the highest ranking institution in the country, and it also ranks 18th in L ...

with a bachelor's degree in 1976. At the

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU), and is among the most prestigious mathematics schools and mathematical sciences research cente ...

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he graduated with a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1982 with thesis ''Long time stability of solutions of nonlinear evolution equations'' under the supervision of

Sergiu Klainerman Sergiu Klainerman (born May 13, 1950) is a mathematician known for his contributions to the study of hyperbolic differential equations and general relativity. He is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, w ...

(and

Louis Nirenberg Louis Nirenberg (February 28, 1925 – January 26, 2020) was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century. Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equat ...

). Ponce was a visiting lecturer at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

from 1982 to 1984, an assistant professor at the

from 1984 to 1986, and an assistant professor at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

from 1986 to 1989. He was from 1989 to 1991 an associate professor at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

and is since 1991 a full professor at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

. He was a visiting professor for brief periods at many academic institutions, including the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

in 1989, the

University of Paris-Sud Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

in 1997 (and again in 2003 and 2012), MSRI in 2001, the

Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada The Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA; en, National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) is widely considered to be the foremost research and educational institution of Brazil in the area of mathematics. It is loc ...

(IMPA) in 2002 (and again in 2010), the

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in 2004, the

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in 2009, the

Autonomous University of Madrid The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous Universi ...

in 2011, the

University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country ( eu, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, ''EHU''; es, Universidad del País Vasco, ''UPV''; UPV/EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initially ...

in 2015, and IHES in 2016. Ponce does research on nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) using PDE solutions to equations in mathematical physics, such as the Euler and Navier-Stokes equations of hydrodynamics. He was on the editorial boards of

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from 2006 to 2014 and the Memoirs of the AMS from 2006 to 2014. In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk ''On nonlinear dispersive equations'' at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

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. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the

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Selected publications

* with Felipe Linares: * with Sergiu Klainerman: * with

Tosio Kato was a Japanese mathematician who worked with partial differential equations, mathematical physics and functional analysis. Kato studied physics and received his undergraduate degree in 1941 at the Imperial University of Tokyo. After disruption o ...

: * with Felipe Linares: * with

Carlos Kenig Carlos Eduardo Kenig (born November 25, 1953, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine American mathematician and Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He is known for his wor ...

and Luis Vega: * with Carlos Kenig and Luis Vega: * with Carlos Kenig and Luis Vega: * with Carlos Kenig, Christian Rolvung, and Luis Vega: * with A. Alexandrou Himonas, Gerard Misiolek, and Yong Zhou: * with Luis Escauriaza, Carlos Kenig, and Luis Vega:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ponce, Gustavo Central University of Venezuela alumni Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Venezuelan mathematicians 1952 births Living people