Alberto Bressan
Alberto Bressan ( born June 15, 1956 in Venice ) is an Italian mathematician who deals with analysis.
Bressan studied at the University of Padua, where in 1978 his degree ( Laurea ) made at Roberto Conti ( processes of linear control) was 1979/80 with a research fellowship at the University of Florence and received his doctorate in 1982 at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Jerrold Bebernes ( Two mathematical problems Relating to the theory of combustion). After that, he was at the University of Colorado (Associate Professor since 1986 ) and at the SISSA in Trieste, where he is a professor since 1991. Since 2003 he has Eberly Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. He has been a visiting scientist at MIT, in Hong Kong, Trondheim, Oslo ( Center for Advanced Study ) and Stockholm on Mittag-Leffler Institute.
Bressan deals with control theory, differential games, partial differential equations, in particular hyperbolic conservation laws in partial differential equations.
In 2002 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Beijing ( Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws in one space dimension). In 2008 he received the Bôcher Memorial Prize for his work on hyperbolic conservation laws and vanishing viscosity solutions of hyperbolic systems of differential equations, performed partly with his student Stefano Bianchini. In 2006 he was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize - for Mathematics and Mechanics of the Accademia dei Lincei. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
He is married and has two children.
Writings
- Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws - the one dimensional Cauchy Problem, Oxford University Press 2000
- With Benedetto Piccoli: Introduction to the mathematical theory of control, American Institute of Mathematics, 2007
- With Piccoli, Graziano Crasta: Well- posedness of the Cauchy Problem for nxn systems of conservation laws, American Mathematical Society 2000