Carlos E. Kenig

Carlos Kenig is the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. He is the co-recipient of the 2008 Maxime Bôcher Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society (with Charles Fefferman and Alberto Bressan) for "important contributions to harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and in particular nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations." An outgrowth of the research of Joseph Fourier nearly two centuries ago, harmonic analysis can be applied to the study of heat, light and other phenomena involving wave motion. Kenig principally studies partial differential equations and one of their subclasses-nonlinear dispersive equations-which describe various aspects of such phenomena. His recent research interests include boundary value problems under minimal regularity conditions, degenerate diffusions, free boundary problems, inverse problems and non-linear dispersive equations. In 1986 and 2002 he was an invited speaker at the International Congresses of Mathematicians in Berkeley and Beijing. He has been the recipient of Sloan and Guggenheim Fellowships and of the 1984 Salem Prize. Dr. Kenig has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the American Institute of Mathematics and he is a former trustee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. He currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Banff International Research Station and on the Scientific Steering Committee for the Maxwell Institute's Centre for Analysis and Non-linear Partial Differential Equations, in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2014 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences,