Stefan Müller (mathematician)

Stefan Müller ( born March 15, 1962 in Wuppertal ) is a German mathematician and currently Professor at the University of Bonn. In 1996 he was one of the founding directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig and there until 2008 worked.

Life and work

Stefan Müller studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, Heriot- Watt University in Edinburgh, where he received his doctorate in 1990 at John M. Ball, and at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris. In 1989 he was Zeev Nehari assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in 1990 and a research associate for the SFB 256 at the University of Bonn. In 1994 he was appointed professor at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, 1995 at the ETH Zurich, before he became one of the founding directors built in 1996, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig. December 1st, 2008, Stefan Müller holds a chair at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, an institute of the University of Bonn held.

His research interests are the analysis, continuum mechanics, mathematical aspects of materials science and microstructures.

In 1996 he gave a plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Budapest ( Microstructures, geometry and the calculus of variations ) and in 1998 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Berlin ( Unexpected solutions of first and second order partial differential equations, with Vladimir Sverak ).

Awards and prizes

Stefan Müller is since 1999 a member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and since 2002 at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Publications

• Microstructures, phase transitions and geometry. In: Balog (ed.): Proceedings of European Congress of Mathematicians. Volume 2, Birkhauser 1998, p.92.
• With Vladimír SVERAK: Unexpected solutions of first and second order partial differential equations. International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998, Vol.II, S.691, Documenta Mathematica.
• With Fabrice Bethuel, Gerhard Huisken, Klaus Steffen: Variational models for microstructure and phase transitions. In: Stefan Hildebrandt, Michael Struwe: Calculus of Variations and geometric evolution problems. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol 1713, 1999, p.85 - 210.
• Mathematics and intelligent materials. In: Aigner, Behrends (eds.): Everything mathematics. Vieweg 2002.
• Mathematics is everywhere. DMV Releases, January 1998.
• With Conti, Antonio DeSimone, Dolzmann, Felix Otto: Multiscale modeling of materials - the role of analysis. In: Kirkilionis, Krömker, Rannacher, Tomi (Editor): Trends in Nonlinear Analysis. Springer 2003, S.375 - 408.
• With G. Friesecke, RD James: A hierarchy of plate models derived from nonlinear elasticity by Gamma -convergence. Arch Council. Mech Anal., Volume 180, 2006, pp. 183-236.
• Camillo De Lellis With: Sharp rigidity estimates for nearly umbilical surfaces. J. Differential Geometry Volume 69, 2005, pp. 75-110.
• With Verk V.: Convex integration for Lipschitz mappings and counterexamples to regularity. Annals of Mathematics, Volume 157, 2003, 715-742.
• With G. Friesecke, RD James: A theorem on geometric rigidity and the derivation of nonlinear plate theory from three dimensional elasticity. Comm. Pure Appl. Math, Volume 55, 2002, 1461-1506.
• With Antonio DeSimone, Robert V. Kohn, Felix Otto: A Reduced theory for thin -film micro magnetics. Comm. Pure Appl. Math, Volume 55, 2002, 1408-1460.