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Carlos Kenig, Mathematics
Schlumberger Chair for Mathematical Sciences
Carlos E. Kenig, an internationally renowned mathematician, is recognized for his pioneering contributions to harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, particularly in the study of nonlinear dispersive equations.
Carlos E. Kenig is the Luis Block Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago.
He is recognized for his applications of tools and techniques of harmonic analysis to a number of different areas of partial differential equations. In particular, in the last 30 years Kenig has made pioneering contributions to the study of nonlinear dispersive equation, including his recent research on the long-time behavior of large solutions to critical nonlinear wave equations.
He obtained his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1978. After being an Instructor at Princeton University and a professor at the University of Minnesota, Kenig returned to the University of Chicago in 1985. In 2017 Kenig delivered the American Mathematical Society’s colloquium lectures. He has been a member of the IHES Scientific Council since 2023.
Salem Prize (1984)
Invited speakers at the International Congress of Mathematicians (1984 and 2002)
Bocher Prize of the American Mathematical Society (2008)
Plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (2010)
Solomon Lefschetz medal of the Mathematical Council of the Americas (2021)
ICMAM Latin America Prize (2024).
King Faisal Prize in Science (Mathematics) (2026)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Mathematical Society
Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US
Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo
Foreign Academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain
Corresponding Member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Fisicas y Naturales of Argentina
Past vice-president of the American Mathematical Society.
Doctorates honoris causa from the Université de Cergy-Pontoise and from the Universidad del Pais Vasco
President of the International Mathematical Union for the period 2019-2022.
