Plenary Speakers


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Manuel Del Pino (University of Bath, UK)

Manuel Del Pino is a Chilean mathematician, specialist in asymptotic patterns in nonlinear  PDEs. After a degree in mathematical engineering at Universidad de Chile in 1988, he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1992, under the direction of Wei-Ming Ni. After postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Advanced Study and the University of Chicago, he became a faculty member at Universidad de Chile, a professor in 2002. In 2010 he was a speaker at the ICM Congress in Hyderabad and became a member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. In 2018 he became a professor at the University of Bath and currently holds a University Research Professorship by The Royal Society. 

Hongjie Dong (Brown University, US)

Hongjie Dong is a mathematician known for his contribution to a nonlinear elliptic and parabolic PDEs, Navier-Stokes equations, quasi-geostrophic equations, reaction diffusion equations, unique continuation problems, and probabilistic approach of PDEs. Currently, he is a professor at Brown University.

Yoshikazu Giga (University of Tokyo, Japan)

Yoshikazu Giga is a famous mathematical analyst known for his seminal works on the Navier-Stokes equations, blow-up phenomena, a level-set method, and singular diffusion equations. He received his degree from the University of Tokyo and spent time at several institutions including the Courant Institute and IMA before he moved to Hokkaido University in 1986. He worked there as a full professor from 1991 until he moved to the University of Tokyo in 2004. He was invited to ICM in 2018 and to ICIAM in 2003. He received several prizes including the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2010 from the Japanese government for a distinguished scientist and the second Kodaira Kunihiko prize 2023 from the Mathematical Society of Japan for  his lifetime contribution to mathematics.

Martin Hairer (EPFL, Switzerland)

Martin Hairer is a world-renowned mathematician who has made significant contributions to the field of stochastic analysis and partial differential equations. In 2014, he was awarded the Fields Medal, one of the highest honors a mathematician can achieve, and he won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Currently, he holds a position as a Professor at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and Imperial College London.

Ari Laptev (Imperial College London, UK)

Ari Laptev is a prominent mathematician known for his contributions to the spectral theory of partial differential equations. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Acta Mathematica and as the President of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). He currently holds a professorship at Imperial College London.

Alexei A. Mailybaev (IMPA, Brazil)

Alexei A. Mailybaev is a prominent researcher in the field of applied mathematics and mathematical physics. His research spans several areas, including partial differential equations, singularity theory, and mathematical modeling. He has made significant advancements in the mathematical theory of nonlinear waves and hydrodynamic turbulence. Now, he holds a professor position at IMPA, Brazil.

Nader Masmoudi (Courant Institute at NYU, US)

Nader Masmoudi is a highly respected mathematician known for his work in mathematical fluid dynamics and nonlinear partial differential equations. He was awarded the Fermat Prize in 2017 for his remarkable work of depth and creativity in the analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations. He is a professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge, UK)

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb is a Professor of Applied Mathematics and head of the Cambridge Image Analysis (CIA) group at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), University of Cambridge. Moreover, she is the Director of the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information, Director of the EPSRC Centre for Mathematical and Statistical Analysis of Multimodal Clinical Imaging, a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and co-leader of the IMAGES network.

Susanna Terracini (University of Turin, Italy)

Susanna Terracini is a distinguished mathematician known for contributions to the mathematical fields of chaos in Hamiltonian dynamical systems, including the n-body problemreaction–diffusion systems, and the Schrödinger equation.  She was the winner of the 2002 Vinti Prize, a prize of the Italian Mathematical Union for young researchers in mathematical analysis. In 2007 she won the Bruno Finzi Prize of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. Currently, she serves as a professor at University of Turin.

Gang Tian (Peking University, China)

Gang Tian is a distinguished mathematician known for contributions to the mathematical fields of Kähler geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and geometric analysis. Among his awards and honors, he received a Sloan Research Fellowship, the Alan T. Waterman Award, the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Currently, he serves as a professor at Peking University and Higgins Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.

Xiangyu Zhou (Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Xiangyu Zhou is a distinguished mathematician celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to several complex variables and complex geometry. He gained international recognition for his 1998 proof of the “extended future tube conjecture,” a longstanding problem that had remained unresolved for nearly 40 years. An academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2013, Zhou has also been honored as an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002 and as a Keynote Speaker at the Abel Symposium in 2013. Currently, he serves as a Professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

Elia Bruè (Bocconi University, Italy)

Elia Bruè is Full Professor in Mathematics at Bocconi University. His research interests center around the intersection of Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations. This includes various areas of study, including research related to Ricci curvature, metric geometry, and incompressible fluid mechanics.

Public Lecture

Michael Ruzhansky (Ghent University, Belgium)

Michael Ruzhansky is a renowned expert in Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, holding senior full professorships at both Ghent University and Queen Mary University of London. His distinguished career has been marked by prestigious honors, including the ISAAC Award (2007), the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize (2018), and recognition as a Methusalem Laureate (2021). Beyond his groundbreaking research, he has made a profound impact on the Kazakh mathematical community, inspiring and mentoring a new generation of mathematicians.