Salah Baouendi and Linda Rothschild Receive 2003 Bergman Prize

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March 3, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI---M. Salah Baouendi and Linda Preiss Rothschild, both professors of mathematics at the University of California at San Diego, have been awarded the 2003 Stefan Bergman Prize. Established in 1988, the prize recognizes mathematical accomplishments in the areas of research in which Stefan Bergman worked. For one year each awardee will receive half of the income from the prize fund. Currently this income is about US$22,000 per year.

The prize citation for Professors Baouendi and Rothschild states that they are being honored "for their joint and individual work in complex analysis. In addition to many important contributions to complex analysis they have also done first rate work in the theory of partial differential equations... The work of Baouendi and Rothschild has had and continues to have tremendous impact on the theory of several complex variables."

The Bergman Prize honors the memory of the mathematician Stefan Bergman, best known for his research in several complex variables. A native of Poland, he taught at Stanford University for many years and died in 1977 at the age of eighty-two. The AMS was asked by Wells Fargo Bank of California, the managers of the Bergman Trust, to assemble a committee to select recipients of the prize. In addition, the Society assisted Wells Fargo in interpreting the terms of the will to assure sufficient breadth in the mathematical areas in which the prize may be given. Awards are made every one or two years.

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