# Michael Struwe > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Michael_Struwe > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Michael_Struwe.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Struwe > Source revision: 1297120746 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|German mathematician (born 1955)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox person |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|10|6|df=y}} |birth_place = [Wuppertal](/source/Wuppertal), Germany |image = Michael Struwe.jpg |caption = Struwe in [Oberwolfach](/source/Oberwolfach), 2006 |occupation = Mathematician |alma_mater = [University of Bonn](/source/University_of_Bonn) }} '''Michael Struwe''' (born 6 October 1955 in [Wuppertal](/source/Wuppertal)) is a German mathematician who specializes in [calculus of variations](/source/calculus_of_variations) and [nonlinear partial differential equation](/source/nonlinear_partial_differential_equation)s. He won the 2012 [Cantor medal](/source/Cantor_medal) from the [Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung](/source/Deutsche_Mathematiker-Vereinigung) for "outstanding achievements in the field of geometric analysis, calculus of variations and nonlinear partial differential equations".{{cite web|title=Cantor medal for Michael Struwe, von Kaven-prize for Eva Viehmann |url=http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/node/2938 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131211121744/http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/node/2938 |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 December 2013 |work=European Mathematical Society |accessdate=11 December 2013 |year=2012 }} He studied mathematics at the [University of Bonn](/source/University_of_Bonn), gaining his PhD in 1980 with the title ''Infinitely Many Solutions for Superlinear, Anticoercive Elliptic Boundary Value Problems without Oddness''.{{cite web|title=Michael Struwe|url=http://genealogy.math.uni-bielefeld.de/id.php?id=54337|work=Mathematical Genealogy Project|accessdate=10 December 2013}} He took research positions in Paris and at [ETH Zürich](/source/ETH_Z%C3%BCrich) before gaining his [habilitation](/source/habilitation) in Bonn in 1984. Since 1986, he has been working at ETH Zürich, initially as an assistant professor, becoming a full professor in 1993. His specialisms included nonlinear partial differential equations and calculus of variations. He is joint editor of the journals ''Calculus of Variations'', ''[Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici](/source/Commentarii_Mathematici_Helvetici)'', ''International Mathematical Research Notices'' and ''Mathematische Zeitschrift''. His publications include the book ''Variational methods (Applications to nonlinear PDE and Hamiltonian systems)'' (Springer-Verlag, 1990), which was praised by [Jürgen Jost](/source/J%C3%BCrgen_Jost) as "very useful" with an "impressive range of often difficult examples".{{cite journal|last=Jost|first=Jürgen|title=Variational methods (Applications to nonlinear PDE and Hamiltonian systems)|journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|date=January 1993|volume=28|series=New series|issue=1|pages=149–153|authorlink=Jürgen Jost|doi=10.1090/s0273-0979-1993-00339-2|doi-access=free}} Struwe was awarded a [Gauss Lecture](/source/Gauss_Lectureship) by the [German Mathematical Society](/source/German_Mathematical_Society) in 2011. In 2012, Struwe was selected as one of the inaugural fellows of the [American Mathematical Society](/source/American_Mathematical_Society).[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society], retrieved 19 January 2014. ==Major publications== * {{cite journal | last1=Giaquinta | first1=Mariano | last2=Struwe | first2=Michael | title=On the partial regularity of weak solutions of nonlinear parabolic systems | journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=179 | issue=4 | year=1982 | issn=0025-5874 | doi=10.1007/bf01215058 | pages=437–451| s2cid=121187999 }} * {{cite journal | last=Struwe | first=Michael | title=A global compactness result for elliptic boundary value problems involving limiting nonlinearities | journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=187 | issue=4 | year=1984 | issn=0025-5874 | doi=10.1007/bf01174186 | pages=511–517| s2cid=120970687 }} * {{cite journal | last=Struwe | first=Michael | title=On the evolution of harmonic mappings of Riemannian surfaces | journal=[Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici](/source/Commentarii_Mathematici_Helvetici) | publisher=European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH | volume=60 | issue=1 | year=1985 | issn=0010-2571 | doi=10.1007/bf02567432 | pages=558–581| s2cid=122295509 }} * {{cite journal | last1=Cerami | first1=G | last2=Solimini | first2=S | last3=Struwe | first3=M | title=Some existence results for superlinear elliptic boundary value problems involving critical exponents | journal=Journal of Functional Analysis | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=69 | issue=3 | year=1986 | issn=0022-1236 | doi=10.1016/0022-1236(86)90094-7 | pages=289–306| doi-access=free }} * {{cite journal | last=Struwe | first=Michael | title=On partial regularity results for the navier-stokes equations | journal=Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics | publisher=Wiley | volume=41 | issue=4 | year=1988 | issn=0010-3640 | doi=10.1002/cpa.3160410404 | pages=437–458}} * {{cite journal | last=Struwe | first=Michael | title=The existence of surfaces of constant mean curvature with free boundaries | journal=Acta Mathematica | publisher=International Press of Boston | volume=160 | year=1988 | issn=0001-5962 | doi=10.1007/bf02392272 | pages=19–64| s2cid=121385750 | doi-access=free }} * Struwe, Michael. ''On the evolution of harmonic maps in higher dimensions.'' J. Differential Geom. 28 (1988), no. 3, 485–502. * {{cite journal | last1=Chen | first1=Yunmei | last2=Struwe | first2=Michael | title=Existence and partial regularity results for the heat flow for harmonic maps | journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=201 | issue=1 | year=1989 | issn=0025-5874 | doi=10.1007/bf01161997 | pages=83–103| s2cid=11210055 }} * {{cite journal | last1=Shatah | first1=Jalal | last2=Struwe | first2=Michael | title=Regularity Results for Nonlinear Wave Equations | journal=The Annals of Mathematics | publisher=JSTOR | volume=138 | issue=3 | year=1993 | issn=0003-486X | doi=10.2307/2946554 | page=503| jstor=2946554 | doi-access=free }} * {{cite journal | last1=Shatah | first1=Jalal | last2=Struwe | first2=Michael |title=Well-posedness in the energy space for semilinear wave equations with critical growth | journal=International Mathematics Research Notices | publisher=Oxford University Press (OUP) | volume=1994 | issue=7 | year=1994 | issn=1073-7928 | doi=10.1155/s1073792894000346 | page=303| doi-access=free }} * Struwe, Michael; Tarantello, Gabriella. ''On multivortex solutions in Chern-Simons gauge theory.'' Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. Sez. B Artic. Ric. Mat. (8) 1 (1998), no. 1, 109–121. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.math.ethz.ch/~struwe/ page at ETH] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Struwe, Michael}} Category:1955 births Category:20th-century German mathematicians Category:Academic staff of ETH Zurich Category:Living people Category:Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Category:21st-century German mathematicians --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Michael Struwe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Struwe) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Struwe?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.