Carlos Kenig Receives 2008 AMS Bôcher Prize

January 7, 2008

Providence, RI:

Carlos Kenig of the University of Chicago has received 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.

Kenig received the Bôcher Prize for his important contributions to harmonic analysis, partial differential equations (PDEs), and in particular to nonlinear dispersive PDEs. Examples of this work include his seminal paper with G. Ponce and L. Vega, "Well-posedness and scattering results for generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations via the contraction principle", Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 46 (1993) 527-620; his remarkable work with A. Ionescu, "Global well-posedness of the Benjamin-Ono equation in low regularity spaces", J. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 (2007), 3, 753-798; and his outstanding work with F. Merle, "Global well-posedness, scattering and blow-up for the energy critical focusing non-linear wave equation", to appear, Acta Math.

Find out more about AMS prizes at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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