Stefan Müller (born 15 March 1962 in

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) is a

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and currently a professor at the University of Bonn. He has been one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in 1996 and was acting there until 2008. He is well known for his research in

analysis Analysis ( : analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (38 ...

and the

calculus of variations The calculus of variations (or Variational Calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set of functions t ...

. He is interested in the application of mathematical methods in the theory

continuum mechanics Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical behavior of materials modeled as a continuous mass rather than as discrete particles. The French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy was the first to formulate such m ...

, especially material science and problems involving microstructures.

Awards

* 1992 - EMS Prize * 1993 – Max-Planck-Forschungspreis, together

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(

Charles University in Prague Charles University ( cs, Univerzita Karlova, UK; la, Universitas Carolina; german: Karls-Universität), also known as Charles University in Prague or historically as the University of Prague ( la, Universitas Pragensis, links=no), is the oldest an ...

) * 1998 — Invited Speaker of the

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in Berlin * 1999 – CICIAM Collatz Prize ICIAM Edinburgh * 2000 –

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

* 2006 – Keith Medal of the

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and Gauss Lectureship of the

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Publications

*''Microstructures, phase transitions and geometry''. In: Balog (Hrsg.): ''Proceedings European Congress of Mathematicians.'' volume 2, Birkhäuser 1998, S.92. * with Sverak: ''Unexpected solutions of first and second order partial differential equations.'' International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998, Bd.II, S.691, Documenta Mathematica. * with Bethuel, Huisken, Steffen: ''Variational models for microstructure and phase transitions.'' In: Hildebrandt, Struwe: ''Calculus of Variations and geometric evolution problems''. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, volume 1713, 1999, S.85-210. *''Mathematik und intelligente Materialien''. In: Aigner, Behrends (Hrsg.): ''Alles Mathematik''. Vieweg 2002. *''Mathematik ist überall''. DMV-Mitteilungen, Januar 1998. *Mit Conti, DeSimone, Dolzmann, F. Otto: ''Multiscale modeling of materials – the role of analysis''. In: Kirkilionis, Krömker, Rannacher, Tomi (Herausgeber): ''Trends in Nonlinear Analysis''. Springer 2003, S.375-408. * G. Friesecke, R. D. James, S. Müller: ''A hierarchy of plate models derived from nonlinear elasticity by Gamma-convergence''. ''Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal.'', volume 180, 2006, S. 183-236. * C. De Lellis, S. Müller: ''Sharp rigidity estimates for nearly umbilical surfaces''. ''Journal of Differential Geometry'' volume 69, 2005, S. 75-110. * S. Müller, V. Sverak: ''Convex integration for Lipschitz mappings and counterexamples to regularity''. ''Ann. Math.'', volume 157, 2003, 715-742. * G. Friesecke, R. D. James, S. Müller: ''A theorem on geometric rigidity and the derivation of nonlinear plate theory from three dimensional elasticity''. ''Comm. Pure Appl. Math.'', volume 55, 2002, 1461-1506. * A. De Simone, R. V. Kohn, S. Müller, F. Otto: ''A reduced theory for thin-film micromagnetics''. ''Comm. Pure Appl. Math.'', volume 55, 2002, 1408-1460.

References

External links

Müllers Homepage at MPI MIS
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