Sylvia Serfaty

Sylvia Serfaty (* 1975 ) is a French mathematician.

Serfaty studied from 1994 to 1998 at the Ecole Normale Superieure ( diploma 1995) and in 1999 received his doctorate at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay Fabrice Bethuel ( mathematique Etude de l' equation de Ginzburg -Landau de la supraconductivite ). From 1998, she was at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan as a scientist of the CNRS. In 2001, she was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 2003 and 2007, Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (from 2009 as Global Distinguished Professor of Mathematics ). From 2008, she was also a professor at the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie ) ( Laboratoire Jacques Louis Lions ).

It was ( where had been their teacher Fabrice Bethuel with Haim Brezis and Frédéric Hélein pioneered ) by working on the Ginzburg-Landau model is known, the phenomena of superconductivity describes and beyond is a simple model for a gauge theory. In these studies, they exactly determined the three critical strengths of magnetic fields, in which any phase transitions:

• The first value of the formation of stable vortex,
• The second, the transition to surface superconductivity ( the vertebrae are there so tightly packed that they begin to overlap ),
• The third value of the superconducting phase is lost.

In 2003, she was Sloan Fellow. In 2004 she received the EMS Prize ( award lecture: Vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau Model of Superconductivity ). In 2006 she was invited speaker on the same topic at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Madrid. In 2012 she received the Henri Poincaré Prize. In 2012 she gave a plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians (ECM ) in Krakow ( Renormalized energy, Abrikosov lattice and log gases ).

Writings

• With Etienne Sandier: Vortices in the magnetic Ginzburg -Landau model. Birkhäuser 2007