André Neves

André da Silva Graça Arroja Neves (born 1975, Lisbon) is a Portuguese mathematician and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2016. In 2012, jointly with Fernando Codá Marques, he solved the Willmore conjecture.

André Neves
Born1975
Lisbon, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
Alma materStanford University
Instituto Superior Técnico
Known forWillmore conjecture
Freedman–He–Wang conjecture
Min-Oo Conjecture
Works on geometric flows
AwardsWhitehead Prize (2013)
Veblen Prize in Geometry (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Imperial College London
Princeton University
ThesisSingularities for Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow (2005)
Doctoral advisorRichard Schoen
Websitehttp://math.uchicago.edu/~aneves/

Neves received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford University under the direction of Richard Melvin Schoen.[1]

Contributions

Jointly with Hugh Bray, they computed the Yamabe invariant of . In 2012, jointly with Fernando Codá Marques, they solved the Willmore conjecture (Thomas Willmore, 1965). In the same year, jointly with Ian Agol and Fernando Codá Marques, they solved the Freedman–He–Wang conjecture (Freedman–He–Wang, 1994). In 2017, jointly with Kei Irie and Fernando Codá Marques, they solved Yau's conjecture (formulated by Shing-Tung Yau in 1982) in the generic case.[2]

Honors and awards

He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2012, the LMS Whitehead Prize[3] in 2013, invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul in 2014, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award[4] in 2015.

In November 2015 he was awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize[5] in November 2015, "for outstanding contributions to several areas of differential geometry, including work on scalar curvature, geometric flows, and his solution with Codá Marques of the 50-year-old Willmore Conjecture."[6]

Jointly with Fernando Codá Marques he was awarded the 2016 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.[7]

In 2018 he received a Simons Investigator Award.[8]

He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020.[9]

References
  1. André Neves at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Irie, Kei; Marques, Fernando Codá; Neves, André (2017). "Density of minimal hypersurfaces for generic metrics". arXiv:1710.10752 [math.DG].
  3. "News: LMS prizes for 2013 announced - EMS". www.euro-math-soc.eu.
  4. "Royal Society announces recipients of prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards". royalsociety.org.
  5. "Breakthrough Prize – Mathematics Laureates – André Arroja Neves". breakthroughprize.org.
  6. "Breakthrough Prize – Breakthrough Prize Awarded $22 Million In Science Prizes". breakthroughprize.org.
  7. "American Mathematical Society". www.ams.org.
  8. "Simons Investigator Awardees". Simons Foundation. Archived from the original on 2017-08-06. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  9. "AAAS Fellows Elected" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
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