Giovanni Gallavotti

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Giovanni Gallavotti (born December 29, 1941 in Naples ) is an Italian mathematical physicist. He is Professor Emeritus at La Sapienza University in Rome .

Gallavotti in Rennes 1975

Live and act

He studied at the Universities of Rome (Laurea 1963) and Florence (Diploma 1965), where he was subsequently a lecturer. From 1966 to 1968 he did research at IHES and then until 1970 at Rockefeller University . He received his doctorate from IHES in 1968 with a dissertation on Correlation function analyticity in the Ising model with David Ruelle . From 1970 he was professor incaricato in the mathematics faculty of the University of Rome and from 1972 adjunct professor of theoretical physics in Naples. From 1975 he held a chair at the University of Rome (alternating for "rational mechanics", mathematical physics, hydrodynamics). In 1982 he was Lefschetz Professor at Princeton University and in 1984/85 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Gallavotti deals with statistical mechanics (including the Ising model ), stochastic processes , dynamic systems (including billiard systems, KAM theory ), Navier-Stokes equations and the renormalization group .

In 1997 he received the Italian Premio Nazionale of the Accademia dei Lincei , of which he has been a corresponding member since 1994. In 2007 he and Kurt Binder received the Boltzmann Medal for his fundamental contributions to a precise understanding of statistical physics in the equilibrium and non-equilibrium case and in particular for the development of a constructive renormalization group for phase transitions, dynamic systems and quantum fluids . In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berkeley (Renormalization theory and group in mathematical physics) and 1998 in Berlin (plenary lecture). From 1998 to 2004 he was on the scientific board of directors of IHES, from 2000 in that of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna and from 2000 to 2005 in that of the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris. In 2006 he was President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP). He co-founded the Journal of Nonlinear Science in 1988 and was co-editor of the journals Communications in Mathematical Physics (1973 to 1976), Journal of Statistical Physics (1976–1978) and Journal of Mathematical Physics (from 2004). In 2008 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2018 he received the Henri Poincaré Prize .

He is the son of the classical philologist Carlo Gallavotti (1909–1992) and married to the art historian Daniela Cavallero.

Fonts

  • The Elements of Mechanics . Springer, 1983
  • Fluid Mechanics - Foundations . Springer, 2001
  • Statistical Mechanics - a short treatise . Springer, 1999
  • with G.Benfatto: Renormalization Group. Princeton University Press, 1995
  • Quasi-integrable mechanical systems . In: Les Houches Lectures , 43, 1984, published 1986

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Giovanni Gallavotti orcid profile. Retrieved February 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ For his fundamental contributions to our precise understanding of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics, including the development of a constructive renormalization group for phase transitions, dynamical systems and quantum liquids . Award of the IUPAP ( Memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ; PDF)
  3. ^ Gallavotti: Chaotic Hypothesis and Universal Large Deviations Properties . ICM, 1998
personal data
SURNAME Gallavotti, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples