Adrian Constantin
Born22 April 1970
Timișoara, Romania
NationalityRomanian
Austrian
Alma materUniversity of Nice Sophia Antipolis
New York University
Known fornonlinear partial differential equations
AwardsBessel Prize (2007)
Wittgenstein Award (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsNewcastle University
University of Lund
Trinity College Dublin
King's College London
University of Vienna
ThesisThe Periodic Problem for the Camassa–Holm equation (1996)
Doctoral advisorHenry McKean

Adrian Constantin (born 22 April 1970) is a Romanian-Austrian mathematician who does research in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations.[1] He is a professor at the University of Vienna and has made groundbreaking contributions to the mathematics of wave propagation.[2] He is listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher with more than 160 publications and 11000 citations.[1]

Life and career

Adrian Constantin was born in Timișoara, Romania, where he studied at the Nikolaus Lenau High School.[3] He was later educated at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (BSc 1991, MSc 1992) and at New York University (NYU), where he got his PhD in 1996 under Henry McKean with the thesis "The Periodic Problem for the Camassa–Holm equation." He did post-doctoral work at the University of Basel and at the University of Zurich.[4]

After a short period as a lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, he became a professor at the University of Lund in 2000, and then was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) from 2004 to 2008, and was made a fellow in 2005.[5] Since then he has been university professor for partial differential equations at the University of Vienna, and he has also had a chair at King's College London.[4]

Constantin specializes in the role of mathematics in geophysics using nonlinear partial differential equations to mathematically model currents and waves in the oceans and in the atmosphere. These flows and waves play an important role in the El Niño climate phenomenon and in natural disasters such as tsunamis.[6] His approach takes into account the fact that the surface of the earth is curved[7] and the importance of the Coriolis force.[2][8]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

papers
  • 1998: Wave breaking for nonlinear nonlocal shallow water equations (with J. Escher), Acta Mathematica 181 229–243.
  • 1999: A shallow water equation on the circle (with H. P. McKean), Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 52 949–982.
  • 2000: Stability of peakons (with W. Strauss), Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 53 603–610.
  • 2004: Exact steady periodic water waves with vorticity (with W. Strauss), Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 57 481–527.
  • 2006: The trajectories of particles in Stokes waves, Invent. Math. 166 523–535.
  • 2007: Global conservative solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation (with A. Bressan), Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 183 215–239.
  • 2011: Analyticity of periodic traveling free surface water waves with vorticity (with J. Escher), Ann. of Math. 173 559–568.
  • 2016: Global bifurcation of steady gravity water waves with critical layers (with W. Strauss and E. Varvaruca), Acta Mathematica 217 195–262.
  • 2019: Equatorial wave-current interactions (with R. I. Ivanov), Comm. Math. Phys. 370 1–48.
  • 2022: On the propagation of nonlinear waves in the atmosphere (with R. S. Johnson), Proceedings of the Royal Society A 478 (2260), 20210895
  • 2022: Stratospheric planetary flows from the perspective of the Euler equation on a rotating sphere (with P. Germain), Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis.
Books
  • "Nonlinear Water Waves with Applications to Wave-Current Interactions and Tsunamis", Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2011, ISBN 978-1611971866
  • "Fourier Analysis. Part 1. Theory", London Mathematical Society, Cambridge University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1107044104

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wittgenstein Preis 2020 to Adrian Constantin Archived 27 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine Universität Wien: Fakultät für Mathematik, 17 June 2020
  2. 1 2 Adrian Constantin, the Romanian mathematician who won the 'Nobel of Austria' by Mihaela Stoica, Descopera Romania, 22 June 2020 [In Romanian]
  3. ↑ Stoica, Mihaela (22 June 2020). "Adrian Constantin, matematicianul român care a câștigat "Nobelul Austriei"". www.descopera.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  4. 1 2 Professor Adrian Constantin's Inaugural Lecture King's College London, 23 January 2014
  5. ↑ Trinity Monday 2005 - Fellows and Scholars
  6. 1 2 3 4 Mathematician Adrian Constantin named Austria's new Wittgenstein Prize winner Austrian Science Fund, 17 June 2020
  7. ↑ In most such studies, the Earth is treated as if it were flat.
  8. ↑ Understanding the Earth’s system of waves and currents Alois Pumhösel: SciLogs website
  9. ↑ Awards The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics
  10. ↑ ERC Advanced Grant for Mathematician Adrian Constantin 17 November 2010, Universität Wien [in German]
  11. ↑ Adrian Constantin Plenary Speaker at European Congress of Mathematics July 2012, King's College London
  12. ↑ List of Members German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  13. ↑ ÖAW elects 45 new members The Austrian Academy of Sciences
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