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CURRICULUM VITAE
NILS DENCKER
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Lund University
Box 118
SE-221 00 Lund, SWEDEN
Tel: +46 46 222 44 62
Fax: +46 46 222 42 13
Mobile: +46 705 78 79 56
Email: [email protected]
Date of birth: December 14, 1953
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Advisor:
Thesis title:
B.Sc.
1981, Mathematics, Lund University
Lars Hörmander
On the propagation of singularities for pseudo-differential operators
of Principal Type
1976, Lund University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006–
1988–2006
1988
1983–1988
1981–1983
1976–1981
Full Professor, Lund University
Associate Professor, Lund University
Habilitation (Docent), Lund University
Assistant Professor, Lund University
C.L.E. Moore Instructor, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Teaching Assistant and Student Counselor, Lund University
GRANTS and PRIZES
2001–2017
2005
2003
1998–2000
1992–1997
1988–1991
1984–1987
1983
1982–1983
VR (Swedish Research Council) grant
Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute
Gårding Prize from the Royal Fysiographic Society in Lund
NFR (Swedish Science Research Council) grant
Research grant from the Faculty of Science, Lund University
NFR grant
Research grant from the Faculty of Science, Lund University
Strömer–Ferrner Award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
NSF grant
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2015
2014
2013–
2013–
2010
2010–
2009–2014
2009–2010
Preses of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund
Swedish delegate to the IMU General Assembly, Gyeongju, Korea
Chairman of the Class for Mathematics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Chairman of the Meetings Committee of the European Mathematical Society
Swedish delegate to the IMU General Assembly, Bangalore, India
Member of the Board of Institute Mittag-Leffler
Member of the Swedish National Committee for Mathematics
VR observer at Forward Look in Mathematics and Industry
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2009
2009–
2008–
2008–2012
2007–2012
2007–2009
2006
2006
2005–2007
2005–2012
2002–2007
2002–2004
2001–2014
2001–2003
2001–2003
1999–2000
Elector of the Board of the Swedish Research Council (VR)
Member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Member of the Academic Appointments Board, Science Faculty, Lund
Member of the Mathematics Panel, Swedish Research Council
Chairman of the Swedish Mathematical Society
Swedish delegate to the IMU General Assembly, Santiago, Spain
Swedish delegate to the EMS Council, Torino, Italy
Vice Chairman of the Swedish Mathematical Society
Member of the VR committee RFN
Member of the ESF networking programme “SPECT”
Member of the Departmental Board, Department of Mathematics, Lund University
Chairman of the Lund Mathematical Society
Director of Studies in Mathematics, Lund University
Member of the Undergraduate Education Board, Science Faculty, Lund
Member of the Mathematics Committee, NFR
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
Editor of Arkiv för Matematik
Editor of the International Mathematics Research Notices
Former Editor of the International Mathematics Research Papers
Former Editorial Board Member of the Open Mathematics Journal
Former Editorial Board Member of Annali dell’Universitá di Ferrara
MASTER’S STUDENT SUPERVISION
Tanja Bergqvist 2000
Pelle Borgeke 2008
PHD STUDENT SUPERVISION
Wolfgang Staubach 1999
Olivia Constantin (assistant supervisor) 2005
Jens Wittsten 2010
Pelle Borgeke 2012
POSTDOC SUPERVISION
Wei-Xi Li 2008–2010
Joe Viola 2010–2012
Wen Deng 2012–2014
EXPERT ON APPOINTMENT BOARDS
Kalmar University, Sweden, 1994
Karlskrona University, Sweden, 1996
Kalmar University, Sweden, 1997
Göteborg University, Sweden, 2007
KTH, Sweden, 2009
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APPOINTED EXAMINER AT THESIS DEFENCES
Steve Izen, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1983
Yang Liu, Lund University, Sweden, 1992
Peter Pettersson, Lund University, Sweden, 1993
Olivier Goffaux, University of Rennes, France, 1998
Michael Hitrik, Lund University, Sweden, 1998
Ozan Öktem, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1999
Niels Christian Overgaard, Lund University, Sweden, 2002
Bjarne Jørgensen (Astronomy), Lund University, Sweden, 2005
Karel Pravda-Starov, University of Rennes, France, 2006
Johan Thim, Linköping University, Sweden, 2006
Anders Hansson, KTH, Sweden, 2008
Patrik Wahlberg, Växjö University, Sweden, 2008
Olivier Verdier, Lund, Sweden, 2009
Wen Deng, Jussiau, Paris, France, 2012
Lior Aermark, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
SCIENTIFIC REVIEWER IN HABILITATIONS AND PROMOTIONS
Grigorij Rozenblioum, Göteborg University, Sweden, 1997
Rashid Regbaoui, Université de Brest, France, 2003
Alexei Ianchenko, Malmö University, Sweden, 2004
Frederic Hereau, Université de Reims, France, 2007
Joachim Toft, Linnéan University, Sweden, 2009
Tomas Ekholm, KTH, Sweden, 2011
Patrik Wahlberg, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2015
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Operators of subprincipal type, ArXiv:1507.05594.
Solvability and limit bicharacteristics, ArXiv:1506.05675.
On the microlocal properties of the range of systems of principal type, with J. Wittsten, Comm.
Partial Differential Equations 38 (2013), 410–454.
On the solvability of systems of pseudodifferential operators, ”Geometric Aspects of Analysis and
Mechanics, A Conference in Honor of Hans Duistermaat”, Progr. Math. 292, Birkhäuser, New York,
2011, 121–159.
The solvability of differential equations, ”Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians”, Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, 2010, 1958–1984.
The solvability and subellipticity of systems of pseudodifferential operators, ”Advances in phase
space analysis of partial differential equations”, Progr. Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl., 78,
Birkhäuser, Boston, 2009, 73–94 .
The pseudospectrum of systems of semiclassical operators, Anal. PDE 1 (2008), 323–373.
On the solvability of pseudo-differential operators, Séminaire Equations aux Dérivées Partielles du
Centre de Mathématiques de l’Ecole Polytechnique, 2005–2006.
The resolution of the Nirenberg–Treves conjecture, Ann. of Math. 163 (2006), 405–444.
The solvability of pseudo-differential operators, “Phase space analysis of partial differential equations”, Vol. I, Pubbl. Cent. Ric. Mat. Ennio Giorgi, Scuola Norm. Sup., Pisa, 2004, 175–200.
Pseudospectra of semi-classical (pseudo)differential operators, with J. Sjöstrand and M. Zworski,
Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 57 (2004), 384-415.
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The question of solvability, ”Hyperbolic Problems and related Topics” (F. Colombini and T. Nishitani, eds.), International Press, Somerville, Mass, USA, 2003, 159–184.
A sufficient condition for solvability, Int. Math. Res. Not. 1999:12, 627–659.
Hypoellipticity for operators of infinitely degenerate Egorov type, joint work with Y. Morimoto
and T. Morioka, Tsukuba J. Math. 23 (1999), 215–224.
Estimates and solvability, Arkiv för Matematik 37 (1999), 221–243; Correction, Arkiv för Matematik 43 (2005), 143–144.
A class of solvable operators, ”Geometrical Optics and Related Topics” (F. Colombini and N. Lerner,
eds.), Birkhäuser, Boston, Mass, USA, 1997, 141–177.
The propagation of polarization for systems of transversal type, Arkiv för Matematik 33 (1995),
249–279.
Preparation theorems for matrix valued functions, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 43 (1993), 865–
892.
On the propagation of singularities for pseudo-differential operators with characteristics of variable
multiplicity, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 17 (1992), 1709–1736.
The propagation of polarization in double refraction, Journal of Functional Analysis 104 (1992),
414–468.
The propagation of singularities for pseudo-differential operators with self-tangential characteristics,
Arkiv för Matematik 27 (1989), 65–88.
On the propagation of polarization in conical refraction, Duke Mathematical Journal 57 (1988),
85–134.
The Weyl calculus with locally temperate metrics and weights, Arkiv för Matematik 24 (1986),
59–79.
On the propagation of polarization sets for systems of real principal type, Journal of Functional
Analysis 46 (1982), 351–372.
On the propagation of singularities for pseudo-differential operators of principal type, Arkiv för
matematik 20 (1982), 23–60.
INVITED LECTURES and RESEARCH VISITS
Mathematical aspects of physics with non-self-adjoint operators, American Institute of Mathematics, San Jose, California, USA, June 2015.
Visiting researcher at Berkeley, California, USA, November 2014.
Pseudospectra of operators: spectral singularities, semiclassics, pencils and random matrices, ICMS,
Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2014.
Operator Theory and Mathematical Physics 2014, IML, Djursholm, July 2014.
Visiting researcher at Bologna, Italy, October 2013.
Visiting researcher at Helsinki, Finland, August 2013.
Advances in Mathematical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, MLI, Djursholm, July 2012.
Spectral analysis of non-selfadjoint operators, CIRM, France, December 2011.
Sixth International Conference on Differential and Functional Differential Equations DFDE 2011,
Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia, August 2011.
First Swedish-Catalan Mathematical Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, September 2010.
International Congress of Mathematicians ICM2010, Hyderabad, India, August 2010.
KTH/SU Mathematics Colloquium, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2009.
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Selected Topics in Spectral Theory, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, July 2009.
25th Nordic and 1st British-Nordic congress of Mathematicians, Oslo, Norway, June 2009.
Växjö University Mathematical Seminar, Växjö, Sweden, June 2009.
Spectral Theory and Partial Differential Equations, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2008.
Visiting researcher at Mathematics Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California, USA, October
2008.
5:th European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2008.
Pseudo-differential Operators and Related Topics, Växjö, Sweden, June 2008.
Visiting researcher at Bonn University, Bonn, Germany, May 2008.
EMS Mathematical Weekend, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2008.
Phase Space Analysis of PDE’s 2007, Siena, Italy, October 2007.
Solvability and Spectral Instability, Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, Mass, USA, September 2007.
Geometric Aspects of Analysis and Mechanics, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 2007.
Visiting researcher at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, April 2007.
Microlocal Analysis and Applications to PDE, Centro De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy, November 2006.
Regularity in Hyperbolic Problems, Bertinoro, Italy, November 2006.
Visiting researcher at University of Washington, Stanford University and UCLA, USA, October
2006.
Visiting researcher at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, April 2006.
Linear and nonlinear waves, Osaka, Japan, November 2005.
Visiting researcher at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, October 2005.
The Third French-Tunisian PDE Meeting, Hammamet, Tunisia, September 2005.
Harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, Kiel, Germany, June 2005.
Analyse Semi-Classique, Hypoellipticite & Mecanique Statistique, Reims, France, June 2005.
Phase Space Analysis and related topics, Grado, Italy, September 2004.
Degenerate PDEs and Singular Geometries, Potsdam, Germany, August 2004.
Visiting researcher at the Trimester Phase Space Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Centro
De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy, April 2004.
Phase Space Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Bertinoro, Italy, November 2003.
Equations aux Dérivées Partielles, Forges-les-Eaux, France, June 2003.
Mathematical Semi-Classical Analysis at Mathematics Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California, USA, May 2003.
Partial differential equations and spectral theory, MLI, Djursholm, Sweden, October 2002.
Hyperbolic Problems and Related Topics, Cortona, Italy, September 2002.
Visiting researcher at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, March 2002.
The Tsukuba Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan, February 2002.
The First Joint AMS-Scandinavian International Mathematics Meeting, Odense, Denmark, June
2000.
Partial Differential Equations and Related Topics, University of Pisa, Italy, May 2000.
International Conference on Analysis and Mathematical Physics in Honour of Lars Gårding on his
80th birthday, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, August 1999.