Stefan Müller (born 15 March 1962 in

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and List of cities in Germany by population, 17th-largest in Germany. It ...

) is a

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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 ...

and currently a professor at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. He has been one of the founding directors of the

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI MiS) in Leipzig is a research institute of the Max Planck Society. Founded on March 1, 1996, the institute works on projects which apply mathematics in various areas of natural science ...

in 1996 and was acting there until 2008. He is well known for his research in

analysis Analysis (: analyses) is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (38 ...

and the

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 ...

. He is interested in the application of mathematical methods in the theory

continuum mechanics Continuum mechanics is a branch of mechanics that deals with the deformation of and transmission of forces through materials modeled as a ''continuous medium'' (also called a ''continuum'') rather than as discrete particles. Continuum mec ...

, especially

material science A material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter. Materials can be classified on the basis of their physical and chemical properties, or on their geol ...

and problems involving microstructures.

Awards

* 1992 -

EMS Prize 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 ...

* 1993 – Max-Planck-Forschungspreis, together

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(

Charles University in Prague Charles University (CUNI; , UK; ; ), or historically as the University of Prague (), is the largest university in the Czech Republic. It is one of the oldest universities in the world in continuous operation, the oldest university north of the ...

) * 1998 — Invited Speaker of the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...

in Berlin * 1999 – CICIAM Collatz Prize ICIAM Edinburgh * 2000 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize * 2006 –

Keith Medal The Keith Medal was a prize awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy, for a scientific paper published in the society's scientific journals, preference being given to a paper containing a discovery, either in mathema ...

of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was establis ...

and

Gauss Lectureship The Gauss Lectureship (''Gauß-Vorlesung'') is an annually awarded mathematical distinction, named in honor of Carl Friedrich Gauss. It was established in 2001 by the German Mathematical Society with a series of lectures for a broad audience. Eac ...

of the

German Mathematical Society The German Mathematical Society (, DMV) is the main professional society of German mathematicians and represents German mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU). It was founded in ...

. * 2013

Heinz Gumin Prize The Heinz Gumin Prize for Mathematics is awarded every three to four years to an outstanding mathematician in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. The prize is given by the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, and is named after the mathematician a ...

for Mathematics

Publications

*''Microstructures, phase transitions and geometry''. In: Balog (Hrsg.): ''Proceedings European Congress of Mathematicians.'' volume 2, Birkhäuser 1998, S.92. * with Sverak: ''Unexpected solutions of first and second order partial differential equations.'' International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998, Bd.II, S.691, Documenta Mathematica. * with Bethuel, Huisken, Steffen: ''Variational models for microstructure and phase transitions.'' In: Hildebrandt, Struwe: ''Calculus of Variations and geometric evolution problems''. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, volume 1713, 1999, S.85-210. *''Mathematik und intelligente Materialien''. In: Aigner, Behrends (Hrsg.): ''Alles Mathematik''. Vieweg 2002. *''Mathematik ist überall''. DMV-Mitteilungen, Januar 1998. *Mit Conti, DeSimone, Dolzmann, F. Otto: ''Multiscale modeling of materials – the role of analysis''. In: Kirkilionis, Krömker, Rannacher, Tomi (Herausgeber): ''Trends in Nonlinear Analysis''. Springer 2003, S.375-408. * G. Friesecke, R. D. James, S. Müller: ''A hierarchy of plate models derived from nonlinear elasticity by Gamma-convergence''. ''Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal.'', volume 180, 2006, S. 183-236. * C. De Lellis, S. Müller: ''Sharp rigidity estimates for nearly umbilical surfaces''. ''Journal of Differential Geometry'' volume 69, 2005, S. 75-110. * S. Müller, V. Sverak: ''Convex integration for Lipschitz mappings and counterexamples to regularity''. ''Ann. Math.'', volume 157, 2003, 715-742. * G. Friesecke, R. D. James, S. Müller: ''A theorem on geometric rigidity and the derivation of nonlinear plate theory from three dimensional elasticity''. ''Comm. Pure Appl. Math.'', volume 55, 2002, 1461-1506. * A. De Simone, R. V. Kohn, S. Müller, F. Otto: ''A reduced theory for thin-film micromagnetics''. ''Comm. Pure Appl. Math.'', volume 55, 2002, 1408-1460.

References

External links

Müllers Homepage at MPI MIS
{{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Stefan 1962 births 20th-century German mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Bonn German mathematical analysts Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners Living people 21st-century German mathematicians Academic staff of ETH Zurich Max Planck Institute directors