Adrian Constantin (born 22 April 1970) is a Romanian-Austrian mathematician who does research in the field of nonlinear partial differential equations.Wittgenstein Preis 2020 to Adrian Constantin Universität Wien: Fakultät für Mathematik, 17 June 2020 He is a professor at the University of Vienna and has made groundbreaking contributions to the mathematics of wave propagation. He is listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher with more than 160 publications and 11,000 citations.
Life and career Adrian Constantin was born in Timișoara, Romania, where he studied at the Nikolaus Lenau High School. 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.
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.Trinity Monday 2005 - Fellows and Scholars Since then he has been university professor for partial differential equations at the University of Vienna, and also had a chair at King's College London during the period 2011–2014.Professor Adrian Constantin's Inaugural Lecture King's College London, 23 January 2014
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. His approach takes into account the fact that the surface of the earth is curvedIn most such studies, the Earth is treated as if it were flat. and the importance of the Coriolis force.Adrian Constantin, the Romanian mathematician who won the 'Nobel of Austria' by Mihaela Stoica, Descoperă România, 22 June 2020 [In Romanian]Understanding the Earth’s system of waves and currents Alois Pumhösel: SciLogs website
Awards and honours 2000: Highly Cited Researcher with more than 160 publications and 11,000 citations 2005: Göran Gustafsson Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2007: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2009: Fluid Dynamics Research Prize from the Japan Society of Fluid MechanicsAwards The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics 2010: Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)ERC Advanced Grant for Mathematician Adrian Constantin 17 November 2010, Universität Wien [in German] 2012: Plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians (ECM) in KrakowAdrian Constantin Plenary Speaker at European Congress of Mathematics July 2012, King's College London 2020: Wittgenstein Award from The Austrian Ministry for ScienceMathematician Adrian Constantin named Austria's new Wittgenstein Prize winner Austrian Science Fund, 17 June 2020 2022: Elected corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 22 April 2022ÖAW elects 45 new members the Austrian Academy of Sciences, May 3, 2022 2022: Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 16 March 2022List of Members German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina 2022: Made an honorary citizen of the city of TimișoaraRomanian awarded the "Nobel Prize of Austria" becomes honorary citizen of Timișoara by Daniel Dancea, Adevărul, Oct 6, 2022 2024: Elected full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 15 April 2024ÖAW Elects 34 New Members Austrian Academy of Sciences, April 15, 2024
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), Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., (245 587–644)
Books 2011: "Nonlinear Water Waves with Applications to Wave-Current Interactions and Tsunamis", Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2016: "Fourier Analysis. Part 1. Theory", London Mathematical Society, Cambridge University Press, 2024: "Analysis I", Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg,
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Adrian Constantin's homepage Literature by and about Adrian Constantin in the catalog of the German National Library