André Neves
André da Silva Graça Arroja Neves (born 1975, Lisbon) is a Portuguese mathematician and a professor at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2016. In 2012, jointly with Fernando Codá Marques, he solved the Willmore conjecture.
André Neves | |
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| Born | 1975 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Alma mater | Stanford University Instituto Superior Técnico |
| Known for | Willmore conjecture Freedman–He–Wang conjecture Min-Oo Conjecture Works on geometric flows Equidistribution of minimal hypersurfaces |
| Awards | Leverhulme Prize (2012) Whitehead Prize (2013) Veblen Prize in Geometry (2016) New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago Imperial College London Princeton University |
| Thesis | Singularities for Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Schoen |
| Website | math |
Neves received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford University under the direction of Richard Melvin Schoen.
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