Nils Dencker

Nils Jonas Dencker (born 14 December 1953 in Lund) is a Swedish mathematician. Dencker earned his doctorate from Lund University in 1981 under supervision of Lars Hörmander, and is a Professor of Mathematics at Lund University.

He won the 2005 Clay Research Award for his proof of the Nirenberg–Treves conjecture.[1]

Dencker has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2008. He was an invited speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics in Amsterdam in 2008, and at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad in 2010.[2] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

References
  1. Dencker, Nils (2006), "The resolution of the Nirenberg–Treves Conjecture", Annals of Mathematics, 163 (2): 405–444, arXiv:math/0303201, doi:10.4007/annals.2006.163.405
  2. "Invited speakers at ICM2012".
  3. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.


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