Gerhard Huisken
German mathematician · Germany · On the map · Academics · Born 1958 · age 68
Gerhard Huisken 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.
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2013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAward2003Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz PrizeAward2002Gauss LectureshipAward1991Australian Mathematical Society MedalAward1958Born20 May 1958
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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.
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Born 1958 · age 68
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