News Release
DANIEL TATARU RECEIVES
AMS BÔCHER PRIZE
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January 7, 2002
PROVIDENCE, RI---Daniel Tataru of Northwestern 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 Tataru is being honored for his fundamental paper "On
Global Existence and Scattering for the Wave Maps Equations"
(American Journal of Mathematics, 123 (2001) no. 1, 37-77).
The paper introduces a remarkable functional framework which has
played an important role in the recent breakthrough of T. Tao on
the critical regularity for wave maps in two and three dimensions.
The work of Tataru and Tao opens up exciting new possibilities in
the study of nonlinear wave equations.
Further information about AMS prizes may be found at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.
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