Giovanni Prodi Chair in Nonlinear Analysis
Since several years, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers
financial support to fund foreign academics on medium and longer term visiting
professorships to teach at Universities in Germany. While mathematical
research always has been, and continues to be, highly international by its
very nature, teaching mathematics at Universities is often restricted to
"local" sources and means. The DAAD Visiting Professorship Programme serves
to "internationalize" Germany's Universities, to strengthen the international
dimension of teaching, to introduce an international perspective into the
annual teaching programs, and to sharpen their international profile. In this
way, students should be able to benefit from an international learning
experience and to acquire "intercultural skills" while they are still at their
home University, rather than having to wait until they get the opportunity to
spend time studying abroad. Detailed information about this Programme may be
found at the web site
http://www.daad.de/hochschulen/index.en.html.
The Department of Mathematics of the University of Würzburg is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Visiting University Chair in the framework of the DAAD Visiting Professorship Programme. Starting on the summer term 2006, this Chair will be funded for a maximal period of four years; it bears the name
Nonlinear Analysis is a relatively young branch of Mathematical Analysis which started in the 1960s with the pioneering work of M. M. Vajnberg and M. A. Krasnosel'skij in the Soviet Union, and F. E. Browder, R. D. Nussbaum and P. Rabinowitz in the USA. Since then, this field has become a discipline of rapidly increasing importance, mainly because of its numerous applications to physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering. Apart from a large variety of theoretical results and significant applications obtained in the last decades, the methods of Nonlinear Analysis are also quite varied, ranging from topological methods over monotonicity techniques to variational approaches. While the former two have been developed, loosely speaking, mostly in the Soviet Union and the United States, pioneering contributions to the latter were due to the Italian school of E. De Giorgi, G. Prodi, A. Ambrosetti, and others.
The Department of Mathematics of the University of Würzburg is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a Visiting University Chair in the framework of the DAAD Visiting Professorship Programme. Starting on the summer term 2006, this Chair will be funded for a maximal period of four years; it bears the name
Giovanni Prodi Chair in Nonlinear Analysis.
The name of the new DAAD Chair has been chosen to honour Giovanni Prodi who is the "Nestor" of Nonlinear Analysis in Italy (and, incidentally, is a brother of the several years' President of the European Commission Romano Prodi).Nonlinear Analysis is a relatively young branch of Mathematical Analysis which started in the 1960s with the pioneering work of M. M. Vajnberg and M. A. Krasnosel'skij in the Soviet Union, and F. E. Browder, R. D. Nussbaum and P. Rabinowitz in the USA. Since then, this field has become a discipline of rapidly increasing importance, mainly because of its numerous applications to physics, biology, chemistry, and engineering. Apart from a large variety of theoretical results and significant applications obtained in the last decades, the methods of Nonlinear Analysis are also quite varied, ranging from topological methods over monotonicity techniques to variational approaches. While the former two have been developed, loosely speaking, mostly in the Soviet Union and the United States, pioneering contributions to the latter were due to the Italian school of E. De Giorgi, G. Prodi, A. Ambrosetti, and others.
