Igor Rodnianski

Igor Rodnianski (Russian Игорь Роднянский, Igor Rodnjanski; born April 28, 1972 in Kiev ) is a Russian- American mathematical physicist and mathematician.

Rodnianski studied at the University of Saint Petersburg with a diploma degree in physics in 1996. Afterwards he went to the USA where he received his doctorate in 1999 with Lev Kapitanski at Kansas State University in Mathematics ( Pseudoholomorphic curves in almost complex manifolds ). He was from 2000, assistant professor of mathematical physics at Princeton University and in 2011 was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rodnianski is particularly concerned with hyperbolic partial differential equations ( such as nonlinear wave equations ), ( linear and nonlinear ) Schrödinger equations and the solutions of the field equations of general relativity (AR ) as well as with Harmonic Analysis. With Sergiu Klainerman he examined solutions minimal regularity ( Rough solutions) of the Einstein equations of GR.

He was Long Term Prize Fellow of the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2002. In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid (The Cauchy problem in General Relativity ). In 2011 he was awarded the Fermat Prize for his work on the mathematical structure of the solutions of the equations of GR.