Alberto Bressan Receives 2008 AMS Bôcher Prize

January 7, 2008

Providence, RI:

Alberto Bressan of Pennsylvania State University is receiving the 2008 AMS Maxime Bôcher Memorial Prize. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society, the Bôcher Prize is one of the highest distinctions in the field of analysis. The prize was awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, California.

Bressan is receiving the Bocher Prize for his fundamental works on hyperbolic conservation laws. He has made important contributions to the well-posedness theory; the results have been summarized in his monograph Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws. The One-dimensional Cauchy Problem (Oxford University Press, 2000). Another landmark achievement is the work on zero dissipation limit (with Stefano Bianchini), "Vanishing viscosity solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic systems", Ann. of Math. (2) 161 (2005), no. 1, 223--342.

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