Demetrios Christodoulou

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Demetrios Christodoulou
shock waves
Awards

Henri Poincaré Prize (2021)

Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisorJohn Archibald Wheeler
Doctoral students

Demetrios Christodoulou (

Minkowski spacetime of special relativity in the framework of general relativity. Christodoulou is a 1993 MacArthur Fellow
.

Early life

Christodoulou was born in Athens and received his doctorate in physics from

Max Planck Institute for Physics, he became professor of mathematics, first at Syracuse University, then at the Courant Institute, and at Princeton University, before taking up his last position as professor of mathematics and physics at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.[1]
He is emeritus professor since January 2017. He holds dual Greek and U.S. citizenship.

Achievements

See also: Gravitational memory effect

In 1993, he published a book

nonlinear memory effect". In the period 1987–1999 he published a series of papers on the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric self-gravitating scalar field and the formation of black holes and associated spacetime singularities.[5][6][7] He also showed that, contrary to what had been expected, singularities which are not hidden in a black hole also occur.[8] However, he then showed that such "naked singularities" are unstable.[9]
In 2000, Christodoulou published a book
fluids. In 2009 he published a book[12] where a result which complements the stability result is proved. Namely, that a sufficiently strong flux of incoming gravitational waves leads to the formation of a black hole. In 2019 he published a book[13]
which addresses the development of shocks past the point of formation by studying a free boundary problem with singular initial conditions.

Awards

Christodoulou is a recipient of the

U.S. National Academy of Sciences.[17] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[18] In 2014 he was a plenary speaker at the ICM in Seoul. Since 2016 he is also a member of the Academia Europaea.[19] In 2021 he was awarded the Henri Poincaré Prize
. [20]

References

  1. ^ a b "Demetrios Christodoulou Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  2. ^ Demetrios Christodoulou at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ISBN 0-691-08777-6
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  4. PMID 10044168
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  5. S2CID 122366693
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  6. doi:10.1002/cpa.3160440305
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  7. doi:10.1002/cpa.3160460803
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  8. JSTOR 2118619
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  9. S2CID 8930550
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  10. ISBN 0-691-04957-2
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  11. ISBN 978-3-03719-031-9
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  12. ISBN 978-3-03719-068-5
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  13. ISBN 978-3-03719-192-7
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  14. ^ "1999 Maxime Bôcher Memorial Prize" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 8 August 2005.
  15. ^ "The Tomalla Foundation" (PDF). Retrieved 13 February 2008.
  16. ^ "Shaw Laureates – 2011 – Mathematical Sciences" (Press release). Shaw Prize. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
  17. ^ "News from the National Academy of Sciences". NAS Members and Foreign Associates Elected. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  18. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 10 November 2012.
  19. ^ "Academy of Europe: Mathematics Members".
  20. ^ "Henri Poincaré Prize – 2021 Prize recipients". icmp2021.com. Retrieved 4 August 2021.

Further reading

  • Christodoulou, Demetrios; Miao, Shuang (2014). Compressible flow and Euler's equations. Beijing and Somerville: Higher Education Press and International Press.
    ISBN 978-7-04-040098-4
    .

External links
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