Personal Homepage of Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli - ETH Z
ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli FIM Director Department of Mathematics HG G 45.2 Rämistrasse 101 8092 Zurich Switzerland mailto:[email protected] Assistant
Personal Homepage of Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli - ETH Z
Alessio Figalli specializes in the wide-ranging fields of Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, focusing especially on optimal transport, functional and geometric inequalities, elliptic partial differential equations, and free boundary problems.
Personal Homepage of Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli - ETH Z
Period Positions/Education; Sep 2019 – present: FIM Director, ETH Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland): Sep 2016 – present: Chaired Professor, ETH Zürich (Zurich, Switzerland): Sep 2013 – Aug 2016: Full Professor and R. L. Moore Chair, The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX, USA): Sep 2011 – Aug 2013
Mentoring Postdocs 2024–present BillCooperman,ETHZürich 2022–present AndréGuerra,ETHZürich 2021–2024 HyunjuKwon,ETHZürich 2020–2021,2022–2024 ChristophKehle,ETHZürich 2020–2023 JoãoPedroGonçalvesRamos,ETHZürich 2018–2021 HardyChan,ETHZürich 2019–2020 YiZhang,ETHZürich 2016–2018 JoaquimSerra,ETHZürich 2016–2018 ConnorMooney,UTAustin-ETHZürich
Personal Homepage of Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli - ETH Z
The main questions in free boundary problems are the solution's regularity and the free boundary's structure and regularity, i.e., the boundary of the solution-determined domain. Figalli has studied free boundary problems both for local and nonlocal operators.
Personal Homepage of Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli - ETH Z
Published/accepted papers. Improved stability versions of the Prékopa–Leindler inequality (with J. P. G. Ramos) J. Convex Anal., to appear. Complete classification of global solutions to the obstacle problem (with S. Eberle and G.S. Weiss) Ann. of Math., to appear. On optimal transport maps between 1/d-concave densities (with G. Carlier and F. Santambrogio)
Personal Homepage of Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli - ETH Z
Alessio Figalli, the mathematician with Napoli in his heart: "With the numbers I predict where the clouds go to". In the interview Alessio Figalli explains how he found his way to mathematics through his participation in the Mathematics Olympiad.
Personal Homepage of Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli - ETH Z
Prizes. Golden Owl (ETH award for exceptional teaching), 2024; UIMP Medal, 2024; Frontiers of Science Awards, 2023; Falling Walls Award in Engineering and Technology, 2020; Girolamo Cardano International Prize, 2020; Prize I numeri UNO of "The Italian Chamber of Commerce for Switzerland ", 2019; Gili Agostinelli Prize of the "Accademia delle Scienze di Torino", 2019
Personal Homepage of Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli - ETH Z
The Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem for the Fast Diffusion Equation on Bounded Domains (by M. Bonforte, A. Figalli) Strong stability of convexity with respect to the perimeter (by A. Figalli, Y. Ru-Ya Zhang)
Personal Homepage of Prof. Dr. Alessio Figalli - ETH Z
FIM. The Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik (FIM) is a research institute founded in 1964 by Beno Eckmann to promote and facilitate the exchange and cooperation between ETH Zürich and the international mathematical community.