András Vasy (born 1969) is a Hungarian–American mathematician working in the areas of partial differential equations, microlocal analysis, scattering theory, and inverse problems. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Stanford University.
Education and career Vasy grew up in Budapest and attended Apáczai Csere János Gimnázium of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). He then became a boarding-school student at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales. Vasy attended Stanford University, obtaining his BS in Physics and MS in mathematics in 1993. He received his PhD from MIT under the supervision of Richard B. Melrose in 1997.András Vasy in the Mathematics Genealogy Project Following his postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the MIT faculty as an assistant professor in 1999. He was awarded tenure at MIT in 2005"25 faculty members earn tenure" during a long-term stay at Northwestern University before moving to Stanford in 2006.
Awards and honors
Vasy was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow from 2002 to 2004, and a Clay Research Fellow from 2004 to 2006.András Vasy , Clay Mathematics Institute He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul in 2014.Scientific program, Seoul ICM 2014; slides from Vasy's 2014 ICM talk In 2017, he was awarded the Bôcher Prize of the American Mathematical Society."Andras Vasy to Receive 2017 AMS Bôcher Prize"
Research
The unifying feature of Vasy's work is the application of tools from microlocal analysis to problems in hyperbolic partial differential or pseudo-differential equations. He analyzed the propagation of singularities for solutions of wave equations on manifolds with cornersAndrás Vasy, "Propagation of singularities for the wave equation on manifolds with corners", Annals of Mathematics 168, 749–812 (2008) or more complicated boundary structures, partially in joint work with Richard Melrose and Jared Wunsch.Jared Wunsch, András Vasy, and Richard B. Melrose, "Propagation of singularities for the wave equation on edge manifolds", Duke Math. J. 144(1), pp. 109–193 (2008) For his paper on a unified approach to scattering theory on asymptotically hyperbolic spaces and spacetimes arising in Einstein's theory of general relativity such as de Sitter space and Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes, he was awarded the Bôcher Prize in 2017. This paper led to further advances, including the proof, by Vasy and Peter Hintz, of the global nonlinear stability of the Kerr-de Sitter family of black hole spacetimes,Peter Hintz and András Vasy, "The global non-linear stability of the Kerr–de Sitter family of black holes", Acta Mathematica 220(1), pp. 1–206 (2018) and a new proof of Smale's conjecture for Anosov flows by Semyon Dyatlov and Maciej Zworski.Semyon Dyatlov and Maciej Zworski, "Dynamical zeta functions for Anosov flows via microlocal analysis", Annales scientifiques de l'ENS 49(3), pp. 543–577 (2016) Vasy has also collaborated with Gunther Uhlmann on inverse problems for geodesic transforms.
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