Monica Vișan (born August 5, 1979, in

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) is a Romanian mathematician at the

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who specialized in PDE and is well known for her work on the

nonlinear Schrödinger equation In theoretical physics, the (one-dimensional) nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) is a nonlinear variation of the Schrödinger equation. It is a classical field equation whose principal applications are to the propagation of light in nonlin ...

Education and career

Vișan earned a bachelor's degree at the

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in 2002. She became a student of

Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes ...

at the

(UCLA), where she completed her doctorate in 2006. Her dissertation was ''The Defocusing Energy-Critical Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation in Dimensions Five and Higher''. After postdoctoral research at the

Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholar ...

, Vișan became an assistant professor in the mathematics department 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 ...

in 2008. She returned to UCLA as a faculty member in 2009, and (keeping her appointment at UCLA) spent 2010–2011 as Harrington Faculty Fellow at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

. She won a

Sloan Research Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

in 2010.

Selected publications

With

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and

Daniel Tătaru Daniel Ioan Tătaru (born 6 May 1967, Piatra Neamţ, Romania) is a Romanian mathematician at University of California, Berkeley. He earned his doctorate from the University of Virginia in 1992, under supervision of Irena Lasiecka. He won the 20 ...

, Vișan is the author of the book ''Dispersive Equations and Nonlinear Waves: Generalized Korteweg–de Vries, Nonlinear Schrödinger, Wave and Schrödinger Maps'' (Birkhäuser/Springer, 2014). Her research papers include: * * * * * *

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