The Stefan Bergman Prize is a mathematics award, funded by the estate of the widow of mathematician Stefan Bergman and supported by the
American Mathematical Society
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. The award is granted for mathematical research in: "1) the theory of the
kernel function In operator theory, a branch of mathematics, a positive-definite kernel is a generalization of a positive-definite function or a positive-definite matrix. It was first introduced by James Mercer in the early 20th century, in the context of solving ...
and its applications in real and complex analysis; or 2) function-theoretic methods in the theory of
partial differential equations
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The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be solved for, similarly to ...
of elliptic type with attention to Bergman's operator method."
The award is given in honor of Stefan Bergman, a
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
known for his work on
complex analysis
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. Recipients of the prize are selected by a committee of judges appointed by the American Mathematical Society. The monetary value of the prize is variable and based on the income from the prize fund; in 2005 the award was valued at approximately $17,000.
Laureates
* 1989
David W. Catlin
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Catlin received in 1978 his Ph.D. from Princeton University under Joseph Kohn with thesis ''Boundar ...
Ewa Ligocka
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Places
; Ethiopia
* Ewa (woreda)
; Nauru
* Ewa District, Nauru
; United States
* Eastern Washington, the portion of the state of Washington east of the Cascade Range
* ʻEwa Beach, Hawaii, a census-designated place ...
* 1992
Charles Fefferman
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* 1993
Yum-Tong Siu
Yum-Tong Siu (; born May 6, 1943 in Guangzhou, China) is the William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.
Siu is a prominent figure in the study of functions of several complex variables. His research interests invo ...
* 1994
John Erik Fornæss
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Fornæss received his master's degree in 1970 from the University of Oslo with thesis ''Uniform approximation on manifolds'' and his PhD in 1974 from t ...
* 1995
Harold P. Boas
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Life
Boas was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He is the son of two noted mathematicians, Ralph P. Boas, Jr and Mary L. Boas.
Education
He received his A.B. and S.M. de ...
,
Emil J. Straube
Emil Josef Straube is a Swiss and American mathematician.
Education and career
He received from ETH Zurich in 1977 his diploma in mathematics and in 1983 his doctorate in mathematics. For the academic year 1983–1984 Straube was a visiting rese ...
* 1997
David E. Barrett
David Eugene Barrett is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan.
Barrett received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1982 under the supervision of Raghavan Narasimhan
Raghavan Narasimhan (August 31, 1937 – October ...
,
Michael Christ
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Masatake Kuranishi
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Education and career
Kuran ...
* 2001
László Lempert
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M. Salah Baouendi
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,
Linda Preiss Rothschild
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* 2005 Elias Stein
* 2006 Kengo Hirachi
* 2007-08
Alexander Nagel
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Biography
He received in 1966 ...
Duong H. Phong
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John M. Lee
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Education
Lee graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1 ...
* 2013
Xiaojun Huang
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Sławomir Kołodziej
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,
Takeo Ohsawa Takeo may refer to:
* Takéo Province, a province of Cambodia
**Doun Kaev (town), formerly known as Takéo, the capital of Takéo province
*Ta Keo, an Angkorian temple in Cambodia
*Takeo, Saga, a city in Saga Prefecture, Japan
* Takeo (given name), ...
Jean-Pierre Demailly
Jean-Pierre Demailly (25 September 1957 – 17 March 2022) was a French mathematician who worked in complex geometry. He was a professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and a permanent member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Early life and e ...
* 2016
Charles L. Epstein
Charles L. Epstein is a Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute. He is the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.François Trèves
J. (Jean) François Treves (born April 23, 1930, in Brussels) is an American mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations.
Trèves earned his Ph.D. in 1958 from Paris-Sorbonne University under the supervision of Laurent Schwartz. ...
* 2017
Bo Berndtsson
Bo Berndtsson (born 24 December 1950), is a Swedish mathematician. His main contributions concern the theory of several complex variables and complex geometry. He gained in 1971 a BA degree from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and obtain ...
,
Nessim Sibony
Nessim Sibony (20 October 1947-30 October 2021) was a French mathematician, specializing in the theory of several complex variables and complex dynamics in higher dimension. Since 1981, he was professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay.
B ...
* 2018
Johannes Sjöstrand
Johannes Sjöstrand (born 1947) is a Swedish mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations and functional analysis.
Sjöstrand received his doctorate in 1972 from Lund University under Lars Hörmander. Sjöstrand taught at the Univ ...
* 2019
Franc Forstnerič
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List of mathematics awards
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