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Maria Colombo (mathematician)

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Maria Colombo
Colombo in 2021
Born (1989-05-25) May 25, 1989 (age 35)
Luino, Lombardy, Italy
Awards
Academic background
EducationMathematics
Alma materUniversity of Pisa
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
ThesisFlows of non-smooth vector fields and degenerate elliptic equations: With applications to the Vlasov-Poisson and semigeostrophic systems (2015)
Doctoral advisorLuigi Ambrosio
Alessio Figalli
Other advisorsCamillo De Lellis
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
InstitutionsEPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Main interestsMathematical analysis
Calculus of variations
Partial differential equation
Websitewww.epfl.ch/labs/amcv/

Maria Colombo (born 25 May 1989)[1] is an Italian mathematician specializing in mathematical analysis. She is a professor at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland, where she holds the chair for mathematical analysis, calculus of variations and partial differential equations.[2][3]

Education and career

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Colombo was born in Luino, near the Swiss border of Italy.[1][4] She competed for Italy in the 2005, 2006, and 2007 International Mathematical Olympiads, earning bronze, gold, and silver medals respectively.[5]

She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at the University of Pisa in 2010 and 2011,[1] and completed a Ph.D. in 2015 at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, under the joint supervision of Luigi Ambrosio and Alessio Figalli.[1][6] Her dissertation, Flows of non-smooth vector fields and degenerate elliptic equations: With applications to the Vlasov-Poisson and semigeostrophic systems, was published as a book in 2017 by Edizioni della Normale.[7]

After postdoctoral research with Camillo De Lellis at the University of Zurich, she joined the EPFL as an assistant professor in 2018,[1] and was promoted to full professor in 2021.[3]

Recognition

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The Accademia dei Lincei gave Colombo their Gioacchino Iapichino Prize for 2016.[4][8] She was the 2017 winner of the Carlo Miranda Prize of the National Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Naples [it],[4][9] and the 2019 winner of the Bartolozzi Prize of the Italian Mathematical Union.[10] She is the 2022 winner of the biennial Peter Lax Award, to be given at the International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems,[11] and the 2023 winner of the Collatz Prize of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, "for her fundamental contributions to regularity theory and the analysis of singularities in elliptic partial differential equations, geometric variational problems, transport equations, and incompressible fluid dynamics".[12] In 2024, she was awarded the EMS Prize for breakthrough results in fluid dynamics, optimal transport and kinetic theory, and for her impact on analysis more broadly.[13] That same year, she was awarded the Stampacchia Medal.[14]

Personal life

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Colombo is married to Simone, an engineer, with whom she has four children.[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Curriculum vitae, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, retrieved 2021-01-15
  2. ^ Chair of Mathematical Analysis, Calculus of Variations and PDEs (AMCV), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, retrieved 2021-01-15
  3. ^ a b Testa, Andrea (16 July 2021), "Professor Maria Colombo promoted to Full Professor", EPFL News, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, retrieved 2021-08-26
  4. ^ a b c "A soli trent'anni, la normalista Maria Colombo è Direttrice di un Laboratorio di Analisi Matematica al Politecnico di Losanna", Normale News (in Italian), Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 16 December 2019, retrieved 2021-01-15
  5. ^ "Maria Colombo: Individual ranking", International Mathematical Olympiad, retrieved 2021-01-15
  6. ^ Maria Colombo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ^ Review of Flows of non-smooth vector fields and degenerate elliptic equations: Florin Iacob, MR3642871
  8. ^ Premio Gioacchino Iapichino (PDF) (in Italian), Accademia dei Lincei, 13 May 2016, retrieved 2021-01-15
  9. ^ Concorsi e premi accademici (in Italian), National Society of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Naples, retrieved 2021-01-15
  10. ^ Premio Giuseppe Bartolozzi (in Italian), Italian Mathematical Union, retrieved 2021-01-15
  11. ^ "Maria Colombo is the recipient of the 2022 Peter Lax award", EPFL News, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 25 May 2021, retrieved 2021-08-26
  12. ^ "ICIAM Announces 2023 Prize Recipients", SIAM News, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, November 2022, retrieved 2022-11-01
  13. ^ "EMS | Fourteen prizes awarded to European mathematicians at the 9th ECM". euromathsoc.org. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  14. ^ a b "Maria Colombo, una vita per la matematica e per i suoi quattro figli" [Maria Colombo, a life for mathematics and her four children]. Vanity Fair (in Italian). 2 September 2024. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
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