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Frank Merle Receives 2005 AMS Bôcher Memorial Prize

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January 6, 2005

Providence, RI:

Frank Merle of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise is receiving the 2005 AMS Maxime Bôcher Memorial Prize. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society, the Bôcher Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Bôcher Prize honors a notable paper in the mathematical field of analysis. The prize citation recognizes Merle "for his fundamental work in the analysis of nonlinear dispersive equations". In particular, it points to the following papers:

"Stability of blow-up profile and lower bounds for blow-up rate for the critical generalized KdV equation" (with Y. Martel), Annals of Math. 155 (2002), 235-280;

"Blow up in finite time and dynamics of blow up solutions for the L_p-critical generalized KdV equation" (with Y. Martel), J. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (2002), 617-664;

"On universality of blow-up profile for L_p critical nonlinear Schroedinger equation" (with P. Raphael), Invent. Math. 156 (2004), no. 3, 565-672.

Find out more about AMS prizes at http://www.ams.org/prizes-awards.

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