Vladimír Šverák

Vladimír Šverák (* 1959 ) is a Czech mathematician .

Life

Šverák received his doctorate in 1986 at the Charles University in Prague under Jindřich Nečas on problems of the calculus of variations in nonlinear elasticity theory. He was then a professor at Karls University and, among other things, at Heriot-Watt University in 1992 . He has been a professor at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis since the 1990s .

Šverák deals with the calculus of variations and partial differential equations and, more recently, especially with the Navier-Stokes equation and regularity issues of its solutions. In the 1980s he achieved important results in the calculus of variations, where he solved, among other things, a question open to Charles Morrey since 1950 (whether Rank 1 convexity leads to quasi-convexity - Sverak gave a counterexample) and other important results for characterizing the achieved quasi-convexity introduced by Morrey. In 1992 he received the EMS Prize for this .

In 1994 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Zurich ( Lower semicontinuity of variational integrals and compensated compactness ) and in 1998 in Berlin ( Unexpected solutions of first and second order partial differential equations with Stefan Müller). In 1993 he and Stefan Müller received the Max Planck Research Award .

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