Matei Machedon (born 10 February 1960 in Romania) is a Romanian-American mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations and mathematical physics. Machedon graduated from 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 ...

with B.A./M.S. in 1982. He received his Ph.D. from

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in 1986 with thesis advisor

Charles Fefferman Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is an American mathematician at Princeton University, where he is currently the Herbert E. Jones, Jr. '43 University Professor of Mathematics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for his contrib ...

. Machedon was a C.L.E. Moore Instructor at

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from 1986 to 1988. At Princeton University he was an assistant professor from 1988 to 1994. He was at the

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for the academic year 1994–1995. At the

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he was an associate professor from 1994 to 1998 and is since 1998 a full professor. Machedon held a Sloan Fellowship for the academic year 1985–1986 and for the two academic years 1989–1991. He has frequently collaborated with

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and Manoussos Grillakis. In 1998 Machedon was an invited speaker at the

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in Berlin.

Selected publications

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References

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