The ICM is the most important international congress in this discipline and also the largest, bringing together around 3000 mathematicians from all over the world. Along with plenary talks, contains sections devoted to different areas of mathematics. This meeting, held every four years, is also the setting for delivering the highest honor in mathematics, the Fields Medal, awarded to mathematicians up to 40 years who have made outstanding discoveries.
The professor has said to be very proud and pleased with this invitation. “Upon receipt it I was very surprised, at first did not believe it. It was not something I expected, and it is undoubtedly the most important recognition I have received in math so far, “he says.
For the Director of the Department of Mathematical Engineering, Marcos Kiwi, the participation of del Pino at ICM is a great pride for DIM. “It's a great thrill to a colleague reach this kind of recognition, Manuel is not only opening a new and challenging track, but their commitment and work are an example of how to walk it.”
Del Pino will give a talk at the section on Partial Differential Equations with nine other world-renowned specialists in this area. As he explains, this invitation to the ICM is the result of the accumulated work done during his career with mathematicians from DIM-CMM and other universities.
“We have made contributions which I feel are relevant to the understanding of phenomenon called concentration in nonlinear elliptic problems. In particular, it might be noted that with the techniques we have developed in recent years we built, along with Michal Kowalczyk and Juncheng Wei, a counterexample to a famous conjecture of Ennio De Giorgi in high dimensions,” he adds.
Professor del Pino tells that many mathematicians, including De Giorgi, one of the most important analysts of the twentieth century, suspected the presence of this example. “Most of those who attacked before this problem did it so in the spirit of the direct method of calculus of variations, but we solved it using perturbation techniques, which had been very successful in related contexts. Establish that link was not obvious and was perhaps our main contribution.”
From the academic point of view the Dean Francisco Brieva reflects on the accomplishments of Manuel del Pino: “I am very pleased by what Manuel and several other academics in the faculty gather in this unrelenting quest for new knowledge. They are the essence of this institution we call school and give reality to the beauty of ideas,” he concludes.
| Manuel del Pino is a Mathematical Civil Engineer at University ofChile, and Ph.D. at University of Minnesota. Prior to joining as anacademic at the University of Chile, he worked at the Institute forAdvanced Study in Princeton and at the University of Chicago.
To date he has published over 100 articles and their citations in ISIjournals are above 1600. On March 2009, the ISI Essential ScienceIndicators located him at number 53 of thousand between the most citedmathematicians in the world for publications appeared in the last tenyears. Manuel del Pino has been visitor professor at various universities, andin the last five years guest speaker to over 40international conferences and symposia. |
