Gerhard Huisken
Gerhard Huisken (born 20 May 1958) is a German mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry and partial differential equations. He is known for foundational contributions to the theory of the mean curvature flow, including Huisken's monotonicity formula, which is named after him. With Tom Ilmanen, he proved a version of the Riemannian Penrose inequality, which is a special case of the more general Penrose conjecture in general relativity.
Gerhard Huisken | |
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Gerhard Huisken in 2017 | |
| Born | 20 May 1958 Hamburg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Heidelberg University |
| Known for | Huisken's monotonicity formula |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Australian National University University of Tübingen Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach |
| Thesis | Reguläre Kapillarflächen in negativen Gravitationsfeldern (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor | Claus Gerhardt |
| Doctoral students | Ben Andrews Simon Brendle |
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