Michael Struwe (born 6 October 1955 in

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) is a German mathematician who specializes in

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and

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s. He won the 2012

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from the

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for "outstanding achievements in the field of geometric analysis, calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations". He studied mathematics at the

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, gaining his PhD in 1980 with the title ''Infinitely Many Solutions for Superlinear, Anticoercive Elliptic Boundary Value Problems without Oddness''. He took research positions in Paris and at

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before gaining his

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in Bonn in 1984. Since 1986, he has been working at ETH Zürich, initially as an assistant professor, becoming a full professor in 1993. His specialisms included nonlinear partial differential equations and calculus of variations. He is joint editor of the journals ''Calculus of Variations'', ''Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici'', ''International Mathematical Research Notices'' and ''Mathematische Zeitschrift''. His publications include the book ''Variational methods (Applications to nonlinear PDE and Hamiltonian systems)'' (Springer-Verlag, 1990), which was praised by

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as "very useful" with an "impressive range of often difficult examples". Struwe was awarded a Gauss Lecture by the

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in 2011. In 2012, Struwe was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 19 January 2014.

Major publications

* * * * * * * Struwe, Michael. ''On the evolution of harmonic maps in higher dimensions.'' J. Differential Geom. 28 (1988), no. 3, 485–502. * * * * Struwe, Michael; Tarantello, Gabriella. ''On multivortex solutions in Chern-Simons gauge theory.'' Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. Sez. B Artic. Ric. Mat. (8) 1 (1998), no. 1, 109–121.

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External links

page at ETH
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