Gunther Uhlmann

Gunther Uhlmann Alberto Arancibia ( born February 9, 1952 in Chile ) is a Chilean- American mathematician who deals with Analysis.

Uhlmann studied at the University of Santiago de Chile, where he in 1973 his diploma in mathematics ( Licendiado en Matemáticas ). In 1976 he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Victor Guillemin doctorate ( Hyperbolic pseudo- differential operators with double characteristics ). As a post-doc, he was at Harvard University and at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. From 1978 he was Instructor and Assistant Professor at MIT since 1980. In 1984 he became associate professor in 1987 and professor at the University of Washington (since 2006 Walker Family Endowed Professor in Mathematics ). Since 2010 he is professor at the University of California, Irvine. He has been a visiting professor at MSRI, the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, various universities in South America and the University of Chicago.

Uhlmann dealt with partial differential equations and micro- local analysis with application in light refraction at bowling. He is best known for his work on inverse problems, such as the inverse problem of Alberto Calderon (electrically impedance tomography, electrical impedance tomography), from the voltage-current close relationships on the edge of an area on the electrical conductivity in the interior Recently dealt he is the mathematical treatment of invisibility in optics, whose feasibility has been previously studied with novel metamaterials by physicists Ulf Leonhardt and John Pendry.

2001/2 he was Guggenheim Fellow and 1984 Sloan Fellow. In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin (Inverse boundary value problems for partial differential equations ). Uhlmann is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009), SIAM Fellow (2010) and corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences. In 2011 he received the Bôcher Memorial Prize with Assaf Naor. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.