Johannes Sjöstrand (born 1947) is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a Multivariable calculus, multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be sol ...

s and functional analysis. Sjöstrand received his doctorate in 1972 from Lund University under Lars Hörmander. Sjöstrand taught at the University of Paris XI and he is a professor at the University of Burgundy in Dijon. He is a member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...

and, since 2017, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research deals with microlocal analysis. He has investigated, ''inter alia'', the Schrödinger equation of an electron in a magnetic field (with a spectrum of the

Hofstadter butterfly In condensed matter physics, Hofstadter's butterfly is a graph of the spectral properties of non-interacting two-dimensional electrons in a perpendicular magnetic field in a lattice. The fractal, self-similar nature of the spectrum was discovered ...

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''Le papillon de Hofstadter, d'après B. Helffer et J. Sjöstrand'', Séminaire Bourbaki, Nr. 745, 1991/92
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resonances in the semiclassical limit, and quantum tunneling in the semiclassical limit.

Selected publications

*''Operators of principal type with interior boundary conditions.'' Acta mathematica 130, no. 1 (1973): 1–51. *with Anders Melin: "Fourier integral operators with complex-valued phase functions." In Fourier integral operators and partial differential equations, pp. 120–223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1975. *with

Richard Melrose Richard Burt Melrose is an Australian mathematician and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on geometric analysis, partial differential equations, and differential geometry. Education Melrose received in 1974 his P ...

: ''Singularities of boundary value problems. I'', Comm. Pure Appl. Math., vol. 31, 1978, pp. 593–619 ; ''Singularities of boundary value problems. II'', Comm. Pure Appl. Math., vol. 35, 1982, pp. 129–168 *with Melrose: ''A calculus for Fourier Integral Operators in domains with boundary and applications to the oblique dérivative problem'', Comm. in PDE, 2, 1977, pp. 857–935, se
Helffer ''Propagation des singularités pour des problèmes aux limites'', Séminaire Bourbaki, Nr. 525, 1978/79
*with B. Lascar: ''Singularités analytiques microlocales'', Astérisque 95, 1982 *with

Bernard Helffer Bernard Helffer (born 8 January 1949, Paris) is a French mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations, spectral theory, and mathematical physics. He is the son of the pianist Claude Helffer and the musicologist Mireille Helffer. ...

: ''Multiple wells in the semi-classical limit'', Part 1, Communications in PDE, 9, 1984, 337–408 (6 parts altogether, se
Robert Didier ''Analyse semi-classique de l'effet tunnel'', Séminaire Bourbaki 665, 1985/86
*with Helffer
''Résonances en limite semi-classique''
Mémoire SMF, Nr. 24–25, 1986 *with Helffer: ''Analyse semi-classique pour l'équation de Harper : (avec application à l'équation de Schrödinger avec champ magnétique)'', Mémoire SMF
Nr. 34, 1988Nr. 39, 1989Nr. 40, 1990
(Parts 1–3) *''Asymptotique des résonances pour des obstacles'', Séminaire Bourbaki, Nr. 724, 1989/90 *with Helffer and P. Kerdelhué
''Le papillon de Hofstadter revisité''
Mémoire SMF, Nr. 43, 1990 *with

Maciej Zworski Maciej Zworski is a Polish-Canadian mathematician, currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. His mathematical interests include microlocal analysis, scattering theory, and partial differential equations. H ...

: ''Complex scaling and the distribution of scattering poles'', J. Amer. Math. Soc. 4, 1991, 729–769 *with Alain Grigis
''Microlocal analysis for differential operators: an introduction''
Cambridge University Press 1994. *with Mouez Dimassi

Cambridge University Press 1999 *with Maciej Zworski: ''Asymptotic distribution of resonances for convex obstacles.'' Acta Mathematica 183, no. 2 (1999): 191–253.
''Microlocal Analysis''
in: Jean-Paul Pier (ed.): Development of mathematics 1950–2000. Birkhäuser, 2000
''Complete asymptotics for correlations of Laplace integrals in the semi-classical limit''
Paris, SMF 2000 *with Carlos E. Kenig and Gunther Uhlmann: "The Calderón problem with partial data." Annals of mathematics (2007): 567–591.

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Johannes Sjöstrand, IMB, Université de Bourgogne
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sjostrand, Johannes 1947 births Living people Swedish mathematicians Lund University alumni Academic staff of the University of Burgundy Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences