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The Abel Prize Lectures 2023

Open lectures by this year's Abel Prize winner Luis Caffarelli and three other specially invited matematicians.

A group of students walking towards the univerity library

Photo: Jarli & Jordan

The Abel lectures is a tradition during the week-long celebration of the Abel Prize, which is awarded annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians.

This year's winner Luis Caffarelli will commence the event with his award lecture, followed by the esteemed mathematicians Sylvia Serfaty, Alessio Figalli and Luis Silvestre.

The lectures are free and open to all, but due to lunch preparations, participation must be registered in advance.

Go to registration (dnva.no)

Programme

  • 10.00–10.15: Welcome

    • Helge Holden, moderator/head of the Abel committee

    • Per Morten Sandset, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation at UiO

    • Lise ?vre?s, president of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letter

  • 10.15–11.10: Abel prize winner Luis A. Caffarelli

    "Non-linear and non-local surface structure problems and some of its application"

  • 11.10–12.05: Professor Sylvia Serfaty

    "From diffusions to fluid equations: the question of regularity"

  • 12.05–13.00: Lunch

  • 13.00–13.55: Professor Alessio Figalli

    "From elastic membranes to ice melting"

  • 14.00–14.55: Professor Luis Silvestre:

    "Fully nonlinear elliptic equations and applications"
  • 14.55–15.00: Conclusion

    By chairperson of the board of the Abel prize, Professor Ingrid Glad

     

The lectures will be live-streamed from the Abel Prize's YouTube channel

Portrettfoto av ?rets foredragsholdere under Abelforelesningene
From left to right: Luis A. Caffarelli (photo: Nolan Zunk, The University of Texas at Austin), Alessio Figalli (photo: ETH Zürich / Giulia Marthaler), Sylvia Serfaty (photo: private) and Luis Silvestre (photo: private).

See also: The Abel Prize Award Ceremony 2023

About the Abel Prize

Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829) was a mathematical genius and one of Norway's foremost mathematicians of all times. He formulated questions that remain central in today's mathematics. 

The history of the prize goes all the way back to 1899, when the Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie learned that Alfred Nobel's plans for annual prizes would not include a prize in mathematics and suggested establishing one. 

At this time, Norway was in a union with Sweden, plans to establish a mathematics prize were disrupted by the dissolution of the union in 1905. 

Almost a century later, in 2022, Norway's government established the Abel Prize.

Published May 15, 2023 4:40 PM - Last modified May 15, 2023 5:38 PM