Nicola Fusco (born August 14, 1956 in

Napoli Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

) is an Italian mathematician mainly known for his contributions to the fields of calculus of variations, regularity theory of partial differential equations, and the theory of symmetrization. He is currently professor at the Università di Napoli "Federico II". Fusco also taught and conducted research at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...

at Canberra, the Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh and at the

University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first universi ...

. He is the Managing Editor of the scientific journal ''Advances in Calculus of Variations'', and member of the editorial boards of various scientific journals.

Awards

Fusco won the 1994 edition of the

Caccioppoli Prize The Caccioppoli Prize is awarded by the Italian Mathematical Union to an Italian mathematician not exceeding the age of 38 who established a wide international reputation. The prize is entitled to the memory of the Italian mathematician Renato Cacc ...

of the

Italian Mathematical Union The Italian Mathematical Union ( it, Unione Matematica Italiana) is a mathematical society based in Italy. It was founded on December 7, 1922 by Luigi Bianchi, Vito Volterra, and most notably, Salvatore Pincherle, who became the Union's first P ...

, and, in 2010, the Tartufari Prize from the

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei The Accademia dei Lincei (; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed", but anglicised as the Lincean Academy) is one of the oldest and most prestigious European scientific institutions, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rom ...

. In 2008 he was an invited speaker at

European Congress of Mathematics The European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) is the second largest international conference of the mathematics community, after the International Congresses of Mathematicians (ICM). The ECM are held every four years and are timed precisely betwe ...

and in 2010 he was

invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame." ...

on the topic of "''Partial Differential Equations.''" From 2010 he is a corresponding member of

Selected publications

*Acerbi, E.; Fusco, N. "Semicontinuity problems in the Calculus of Variations" Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 86 (1984) *

Haïm Brezis Haïm Brezis (born 1 June 1944) is a French mathematician, who mainly works in functional analysis and partial differential equations. Biography Born in Riom-ès-Montagnes, Cantal, France. Brezis is the son of a Romanian immigrant father, wh ...

; Fusco, N.; Sbordone, C. "Integrability for the Jacobian of orientation preserving mappings" Journal of Functional Analysis 115 (1993) * Fusco, N.;

Pierre-Louis Lions Pierre-Louis Lions (; born 11 August 1956) is a French people, French mathematician. He is known for a number of contributions to the fields of partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. He was a recipient of the 1994 Fields Me ...

; Sbordone, C. "Sobolev imbedding theorems in borderline cases" Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 124 (1996) *

Luigi Ambrosio Luigi Ambrosio (born 27 January 1963) is a professor at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. His main fields of research are the calculus of variations and geometric measure theory. Biography Ambrosio entered the Scuola Normale Superiore ...

, L.; Fusco, N.; Pallara, D. "Partial regularity of free discontinuity sets" Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Classe di Scienze (2) 24 (1997) *Ambrosio, L.; Fusco, N.; Pallara, D. ''Functions of bounded variation and free discontinuity problems''. Oxford Mathematical Monographs. The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, New York (2000) * Irene Fonseca; Fusco, N.; Paolo Marcellini; "On the total variation of the Jacobian" Journal of Functional Analysis 207 (2004) * Chlebik, M.; Cianchi, A.; Fusco, N. "The perimeter inequality under Steiner symmetrization: cases of equality" Annals of Mathematics (2) 162 (2005) * Fusco, N.; Maggi, F.; Pratelli, A. "The sharp quantitative isoperimetric inequality" Annals of Mathematics (2) 168 (2008)

References

External links

Site of Caccioppoli Prize
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