Nassif Ghoussoub

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Nassif Ghoussoub (born November 9, 1953 in Ségou ) is a Canadian mathematician who is a professor at the University of British Columbia . He deals with nonlinear analysis and partial differential equations .

Nassif Ghoussoub, Oberwolfach 2005

Ghoussoub studied at the University of Paris VI , where he received his doctorate in 1979 under Gustave Choquet . He is a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia and has served on its Board of Governors since 2008.

In 2007 he received the Jeffery Williams Prize and in 1990 the Coxeter James Prize . In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1994). In 1992 he was a Killam Fellow. He is an honorary doctorate from the Paris Dauphine University. In 2012 he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal . For 2019 Ghoussoub was awarded the CRM Fields PIMS Prize .

From 1996 to 2003 he was the founding director of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences and in 2004 he was the founder of the Banff International Research Station, of which he is director.

Fonts

  • with A. Moradifam: Functional Inequalities: New Perspectives and New Applications , American Mathematical Society 2013
  • with P. Esposito, Y. Guo: Mathematical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Modeling Electrostatic MEMS , Courant Lecture Notes 20, 2010
  • Self-dual Partial Differential Systems and Their Variational Principles , Springer Monographs in Mathematics, Springer Verlag 2008
  • with F. Robert: Concentration estimates for Emden-Fowler Equations with boundary singularities and critical growth , International Mathematics Research Papers 2006
  • Duality and Perturbation Methods in Critical Point Theory . Cambridge Tracts, Cambridge University Press 1993
  • with G. Godefroy, B. Maurey, W. Schachermayer: Some Topological and Geometrical Structures in Banach Spaces , Memoirs AMS 70, 1987
  • with B. Maurey: -embeddings in Hilbert space and Optimization on -sets , Memoirs AMS 349, 1986

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Ghoussoub, Nassif
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Ségou