The Stampacchia Gold Medal is an international prize awarded every three years by the
Italian Mathematical Union (''Unione Matematica Italiana'' – ''UMI'' ) together with the
Ettore Majorana Foundation (Erice), in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of
Calculus of Variations
The calculus of variations (or variational calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in Function (mathematics), functions
and functional (mathematics), functionals, to find maxima and minima of f ...
and related applications. The medal, named after the Italian mathematician
Guido Stampacchia, goes to a
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
whose age does not exceed 35.
Prize winners
*2003
Tristan Rivière (
ETH Zürich
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)
*2006
Giuseppe Mingione
Giuseppe Mingione (born 28 August 1972) is an Italian mathematician who is active in the fields of partial differential equations and calculus of variations.
Scientific activity
Mingione received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Na ...
(
University of Parma
The University of Parma () is a public university located in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Organized into nine departments, it is one of the oldest universities in the world. As of 2016, it had approximately 26,000 students.
History
During the ...
)
*2009
Camillo De Lellis (
University of Zurich
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)
*2012
Ovidiu Savin (
Columbia University
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)
*2015
Alessio Figalli (
The University of Texas at Austin)
*2018
Guido De Philippis (
International School for Advanced Studies)
*2021
Xavier Ros-Oton (
ICREA and
Universitat de Barcelona
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)
*2024
Maria Colombo (
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (, EPFL) is a public university, public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland, founded in 1969 with the mission to "train talented engineers in Switzerland".
Like its sister institution E ...
)
Announcement from the UMI
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See also
* List of mathematics awards
This list of mathematics awards contains articles about notable awards for mathematics. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, but awards may be open to mathematicians from around the world. Som ...
References
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External links
*European Mathematical Society
The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The curren ...
br>newsletter with the announcement of the 2012 Stampacchia Medal (pag. 17)Official Site
of the Italian Mathematical Union (UMI)
2015 Stampacchia Medal citation (UMI)
Awards established in 2003
Awards of the Italian Mathematical Union
Calculus of variations
Awards with age limits
Triennial events