Invitation to 2017 Ramanujan Prize Ceremony on Thursday 12 October 2017 at 16:30

[ICTP Director]

*Dear All,
*

*ICTP is pleased to announce that the **2017 Ramanujan Prize Ceremony 
will take **place on Thursday 12 October at 16:30 hrs in the Budinich 
Lecture Hall. *

The 2017 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing 
Countries has been awarded to Eduardo Teixeira of the Federal University 
of Ceará, Brazil.

Eduardo Teixeira obtained his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin 
in 2005 under the direction of Luis Caffarelli. He held a 3-year Hill 
assistant professorship position at Rutgers University and in 2008 he 
returned to his native country, Brazil, to further contribute to the 
development of the Brazilian mathematical community. He became assistant 
professor and subsequently full professor of mathematics, at the 
Universidade Federal do Ceara, located in his hometown, Fortaleza -- the 
same university from which he obtained his BS degree. He was awarded the 
Mathematical Congress of the Americas Prize in 2013 and was elected a 
permanent fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2015. Recently, 
Teixeira accepted a position at the University of Central Florida, USA.

The prize is in recognition of Teixeira's outstanding work in Analysis 
and Partial Differential Equations and is awarded jointly by ICTP, the 
Department of Science and Technology (DST, Government of India), and the 
International Mathematical Union (IMU). Free boundaries are mathematical 
manifestations of sharp changes in the parameters that describe a given 
problem. Typically, different physical laws are to be prescribed in 
distinct, a priori unknown subregions. This is the case, for instance, 
of problems involving different states of matter. Free boundaries also 
arise in physical reactions where interfaces retain some portion of the 
system’s energy, viz., latent heat, membranes, dead cores, flux 
balances, and so forth. The development of the contemporary free 
boundary theory has promoted major knowledge leverage across pure and 
applied sciences and in this talk I will provide a panoramic overview of 
such endeavor. Towards the end, I will describe how geometric insights 
pertaining to the systematic study of free boundary problems can be 
imported as to investigate regularity issues in nonlinear diffusive 
partial differential equations, leading to a plethora of unanticipated 
results.

For more information, see: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8375/

The Ceremony will be livestreamed from the following link:
http://video.ictp.it/livestream

The poster is attached.

Light refreshments will be served after the Ceremony.

On behalf of the Director, you are all warmly invited to attend and we 
look forward to seeing you on this occasion.

Best regards,

Office of the Director



-- 
Zina Makkawi
Office of the Director, ICTP