News Release

FANGHUA LIN RECEIVES 
AMS BÔCHER PRIZE

January 7, 2002

PROVIDENCE, RI---Fanghua Lin of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University will receive the 2002 Bôcher Memorial Prize. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society, the Bôcher Prize recognizes outstanding papers in the mathematical area of analysis. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, California.

Professor Lin is being honored for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of the Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equations with a small parameter. In a remarkable series of papers---especially "Some dynamical properties of the GL vortices" (Comm. Pure Appl. Math. (1996), 323-359)---he has established, both in the stationary and evolutionary cases of GL equations, that the limiting phenomenon is governed by a finite dimensional system associated to the BBH renormalized energy. The prize also recognizes his many deep contributions to harmonic maps and liquid crystals, as in the paper "Gradient estimates and blow up analysis for stationary harmonic maps," (Annals of Math 149, (1999), 785-829).

Further information about AMS prizes may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

Founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship, the 30,000-member American Mathematical Society fulfills its mission through programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life.