Laure Saint-Raymond Receives 2009 AMS Satter Prize

January 6, 2009

Providence, RI---Laure Saint-Raymond of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris is receiving the 2009 AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize. Awarded every two years, the prize recognizes an outstanding contribution to mathematics research by a woman in the previous five years. The prize will be awarded on Tuesday, January 6, 2009, at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Washington, DC.

According to the prize citation, Saint-Raymond is honored "for her fundamental work on the hydrodynamic limits of the Boltzmann equation in the kinetic theory of gases." The citation notes two particularly important papers by Saint-Raymond, "The Navier-Stokes limit of the Boltzmann equation for bounded collision kernels," (with Francois Golse) Invent. Math. 155 (2004), no. 1, 81-161; and "Convergence of solutions to the Boltzmann equation in the incompressible Euler limit," Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 166 (2003), no. 1, 47-80. "The study of hydrodynamic limit theorems dates back to the work of Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Hilbert, and has been extensively investigated by mathematicians and physicists," the citation says. "The results of Laure Saint-Raymond are a landmark in the subject."

The full citation for this prize and additional information can be found in the Prize Booklet. Find out more about AMS prizes at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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