Neil Sidney Trudinger (born 20 June 1942) is an Australian

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, known particularly for his work in the field of

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elliptic partial differential equation In mathematics, an elliptic partial differential equation is a type of partial differential equation (PDE). In mathematical modeling, elliptic PDEs are frequently used to model steady states, unlike parabolic PDE and hyperbolic PDE which gene ...

s. After completing his B.Sc at the

University of New England (Australia) The University of New England (UNE) is a public university in New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1938, it was the first Australian university to be established outside of a state capital. Its main campus is located in the regional city of ...

in 1962, he continued his graduate studies at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. He was awarded a Ph.D in 1966 for his thesis "Quasilinear Elliptical Partial Differential Equations in n Variables". After the award of his doctorate from Stanford University, Trudinger became a Courant Instructor at the

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during the academic year 1966–67. He then returned to Australia where he was appointed as a lecturer at Macquarie University in 1967. In 1970, he moved to

University of Queensland The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone ...

where he was first appointed as a Reader, then as Professor. In 1973 he moved to the

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. In 2016 he moved to the

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, where he is currently appointed as a Distinguished Professor. At the ANU Trudinger served as Head of the Department of Pure Mathematics, as Director of the Centre for Mathematical Analysis and as Director of the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, before becoming Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences in 1992. He is co-author, together with his thesis advisor, David Gilbarg, of the book ''Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order''.

Honours

* 1978, elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. * 1981, first recipient of the Australian Mathematical Society Medal. * 1996, awarded the Hannan Medal of the

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. * 1997, elected as a Fellow of the

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. * 2008, awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition by the

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. * 2012, elected as a fellow of the

.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-08-27. * 2014, gave the Łojasiewicz Lecture (on the "Optimal Transportation in the 21st Century") at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

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1942 births Living people Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science 20th-century Australian mathematicians 21st-century Australian mathematicians Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Royal Society Partial differential equation theorists Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty University of New England (Australia) alumni Stanford University alumni {{mathematician-stub

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