# Nils Dencker

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**Nils Jonas Dencker** (born 14 December 1953 in [Lund](/source/Lund)) is a Swedish mathematician. Dencker earned his doctorate from [Lund University](/source/Lund_University) in 1981 under supervision of [Lars Hörmander](/source/Lars_H%C3%B6rmander), and is a professor of mathematics at Lund University. From 1981 until 1983, he was the [C. L. E. Moore instructor](/source/C._L._E._Moore_instructor) at the [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](/source/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology).[1]

He won the 2005 [Clay Research Award](/source/Clay_Research_Award) for his proof of the [Nirenberg–Treves conjecture](/source/Nirenberg%E2%80%93Treves_conjecture).[2]

Dencker has been a member of the [Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences](/source/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences) since 2008. He was an invited speaker at the [European Congress of Mathematics](/source/European_Congress_of_Mathematics) in Amsterdam in 2008, and at the [International Congress of Mathematicians](/source/International_Congress_of_Mathematicians) in [Hyderabad](/source/Hyderabad), India, in 2010.[3] In 2012 he became a fellow of the [American Mathematical Society](/source/American_Mathematical_Society).[4]

## References

1. ["CURRICULUM VITAE"](http://www.maths.lth.se/matematiklu/personal/dencker/CV20.pdf). *Lund University*. Retrieved 30 April 2021.

1. Dencker, Nils (2006), "The resolution of the Nirenberg–Treves Conjecture", *[Annals of Mathematics](/source/Annals_of_Mathematics)*. **163** (2): 405–444, [arXiv:math/0303201](https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0303201). [doi:10.4007/annals.2006.163.405](https://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2006.163.405). [S2CID 16630732](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:16630732)

1. ["Invited speakers at ICM2012"](http://www.icm2010.in/scientific-program/invited-speakers)

1. [List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society](https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list), retrieved 2012-11-10.

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