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Henrik Shahgholian

 

 

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Henrik Shahgholian

Sörgårdsvägen 60, 163 52 Spånga, Stockholm

Math. Dept., The Royal Inst. of Technology,

100 44,  Stockholm, Sweden

46-8-58176837 (home) 46-8-7906754 (office) 46-736500209 (cell)

46-8-7231788

henriksh@math.kth.se

http://www.math.kth.se/~henriksh

 

Dec. 16, 1960, Tehran

Swedish, former Iranian.

Married, two children (born 85, 89)

Swedish, English, Armenian, Persian

 

Academic History

 

Positions

v     Jan 2001-current

              Full Professor at The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden,

v     1998-2001

             Associate Professor,  The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

v     1991-1998

             Lecturer,  The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

v     1987-1991

           Doctoral student at The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

            Supervisor: H. S. Shapiro,

Research

v     Free boundary problems (Regularity theory, Convexity), partial diff. eq., potential theory,

v     Recent interests: Numerical PDE in FBP, Applied and industrial FBP, Mathematical Finance, Homogenization, Stochastic partial differential equations.

Publications

v     Total of 60 publications

v     Planned book with N. Uraltseva and A. Petrosyan (Regularity of Free Boundaries)

 

 

 

Commissions:

v     Local representative for Swedish Math. Society at KTH 1992{2000.

v     SEFI math working group at KTH 1993-1999.

v     Thesis Committee: Sara Maad (Uppsala), Erik Ekström (Uppsala), Peter Rand (Linköping), Per-Olov Åsen (KTH)

v     Assoc. Editor: Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, 2001-2007,

v     Iranian International Journal of Science, Complex variables and elliptic equations,

v     Review: AMS Review, Featured Review for AMS,

v     Referee:  Indiana Univ., J.; Arkiv Mat., Acta Math.; SIAM J., The Royal Soc.,

v     J. Convex Anal., Bul. Iranian Math. Soc., Jour. Diff. Eq., J. Anal. App., EJDE, Adv. Math., AJM, Free boundary and interfaces,

v     Responsible for the Mathematics grant at STIN (The Swedish Foundation for International Corporation in Research and Higher Education).

 

Grants and Budgets

v     STINT grant for collaboration with UT, Austin, Univ. of Chicago, Purdue, 2004-2008

v     ESF grant for scientific exchange 2004-2008

v     Swedish Research Council 2006-2009,

v     The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for collaboration with Armenia and St. Petersburg university 2007, several years in raw

v     Göran Gustafsson Foundation’s  grant, several years in raw

v     Carl-Trygger Foundations grant 98, 99.

 

Organizational

v     Member of the scientific committee for Nonlinear Potential theory and PDE, program at Mittag-Leffer Inst. 1999-2000,

v     Chair of the PESC-program GLOBAL (2004-2009) for the European Science Foundation,

v     Scientific leader of a thematic program Nonlinear Analysis at Wolfgang Pauli Inst, Vienna, Year 2005,

v     Scientific leader of a thematic program Random Phenomena in Partial Differential Equations at Wolfgang Pauli Inst, Vienna, Year 2007

 

Teaching

 

Undergraduate

v     Conference attendance at Chalmers Feb. 1991, Chicago Oct.1992, Eindhoven April 1993, Prague July 95, Bratislava June 97.

v     Compendium: in Linear Algebra (with K. Johansson).

v     Reports: 3 reports (Swedish) about computer as a tool in teaching mathematics

v     Computer-courses: 40-h (fall-92) Maple in Calculus, several computer labs

v     Interactive teaching: Calculus for students at IT univ., specially designed course for students, using computer technology (2001-2002).

v     Master projects: several master projects in Mathematics and applications

 

 

Graduate

v     Courses: Numerical PDE, Nonlinear PDE, Mathematical physics, Industrial mathematics, A PDE approach to Mathematical Finance, Crash course in Analysis, Free boundary problems.

 

Presentations

 

Invited addresses

v     Sofia, Oct. 90: Inverse problems in potential theory,

v     Pont a Mousson (France), June 91: Elliptic and parabolic problems,

v     Lisbon, Sept. 91: Mathematical topics in °uid mechanics,

v     Toledo, June 93: Free boundary problems, Capri, Sept. 94: Elliptic

v     and parabolic PDE; Zakopane (Polen) June 95: Free boundary problems,

v     FBP 2000 in St. Etian (France), 3d ECM, Barcelona 2000.

v     Berlin: August 2001.

v     Spanish American meeting, 2003

v     Symposium on Analysis and PDEs, Purdue University, June 7-10, 2004

v     Regularity and singularities in shape optimization and free boundaries, Oct. 21-23, 2004.

v     ICIAM07: mini symposium on free boundaries. 

 

Seminar talks

v     Fall 92, University of Michigan; Spring 92, & Spring 94, University

v     of Uppsala; Summer 94, Sharif Univ. Tehran; Summer 95, Summer school

v     in quasi-conformal mappings, France; Summer 95, FBP'95 in Zakopane,

v     Spring 98, UT Austin, Spring 99 UCSB, 3-d European meeting 2000,

v     Workshop: FBP 2000, France September 2000, Umeºa Nov. 2000,

v     MIT, UT Austin, and USC Dec. 2000, Tokyo Feb. 2001, and 2002,

v     Jyväskylä Feb. 2001, UCSB, UCSD Jan. 2002, Vienna (May 2002),

v     Yerevan (Sept. 2002), Cologne (Jan 2003), Lisabon (Jan. 2003)

v     Technical Univ. of Iran Feb. 2004, Vienna (Pauli Inst.) March 2004,

v     Wichita State Univ. March 2004; Vienna, WPI: Oct. 2004,

v     Max Planck Inst., May 2005.

v     Univ. of Chicago: Nov. 2005, October 2007,

v     Purdue Univ. Oct 2007.

 

Seminar arrangements

v     Potential Analysis seminar 1989-2002,

v     Analysis and its applications 2003-2006

v     PDE seminars (once a month) joint with SU, 2006-

v     PDF (Finance seminars) seminars (joint with Uppsala University) 2006-

 

 

Conference/workshop arrangements

 

v     One-day conference in honor of H.S. Shapiro May 14, 1993

v     Workshop on irregular free boundaries, Stockholm 23-26 May 1996

v     Workshop on regularity of free boundaries, Stockholm Feb. 2000

v     Workshop in Nonlinear Analysis (May 2002, Schrödinger Inst.),

v     Nonlinear PDE (Jan 2003, Lisabon),

v     Geometric aspects in PDE (June 2003 in Stockholm),

v     Mathematics in Armenia (Sept. 2003, Yerevan).

v     Geometric and Global Properties in PDE with applications, Stockholm, June 2003

v     Global and Geometric Aspects in Nonl. PDE, Armenia, October 6-12, 2004

v     International Workshop on Nonlinear PDE, IPM, Teheran, Dec. 5-16, 2004

v     Classics in PDE, Stockholm, June 2005

v     PDE and Mathematical Finance, Stockholm, August 2005

v     Rolf Schock Prize meeting, Stockholm October 2005

v     Session organizer in FBP05, Coimbra, Portugal, March 13, 2006. KTH Stockholm.

v     Potential Theory and Applications, A conference in honor of Björn Gustafsson's 60th birthday.  October 15-17 2007. KTH, Stockholm.

v     2nd workshop on PDE and Finance , August 20-23, 2007 KTH, Stockholm

v     Workshop on PDE & Biology , July 9-11, 2007 KTH, Stockholm.

v     Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications , June 13-20 2008, KTH, Stockholm.

v     Summer School: Nonlinear analysis and Geometric PDE, Armenia, June 15-26,  2008

v     Nordic-Russian Symposium in Honor of Vladimir Maz’ya,  25--27 August 2008

 

 

Visiting Positions

v     IPM research center, Tehran, July-Aug, 94;

v     Univ. of Franche-Comte, Besancon, France, June 95;

v     IPM research center, Feb.-May , 1996

v     Univ. of Texas at Austin, Jan-May 1998,

v     Univ of Tehran, July-August 98,

v     Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Spring 99.

v     Univ. of Nancy Inst. Henri Poincare July 2000

 

 

Doctoral Students

Current

v     T. Arnarson (started Sept. 2003)

v     Erik Lindgren (started July 2004)

v     Farid Bozorgnia (started Sept. 2004)

v     Anders Edquist (started January 2005)

 

 

Previous

v     F. Bahrami (Univ. of Tehran, finished 1998 as second adviser)

v     H. Hosseinzadeh (Kerman Univ. finished 1998)

v     Petrosyan (fnished 2000, Royal Inst. of Techn. )

v     N. Matevosyan (finished 2003, Royal Inst. of Techn. )

v     Karakhanyan (finished 2004, Royal Inst. of Technology)

v     J. Andersson (finished 2005, Royal Inst. of Technology)

 

 

Selected publications

 

v     Existence and geometric properties of solutions of a free boundary problem in potential theory, joint work with B. Gustafsson, J. Reine Angew. Math. 473 (1996), 137-179.

v     Existence of classical solutions to a free boundary problem for the p-Laplace operator: the exterior convex case. Joint with A. Henrot J. Reine Angew. Math. 521 (2000), 85-97

v     Regularity of a free boundary for viscosity solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations. Joint with K. Lee Comm. on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. LIV, 0001-0014 (2001).

v     Regularity properties of a free boundary near contact points with the fixed boundary, Joint with N. Uraltseva, Duke Math. J. 116 (2003), no. 1, 1-34 24)

v     Regularity of a free boundary in potential theory, Joint with L. Caffarelli and L. Karp, Annals of Math. (2) 151 (2000), no. 1, 269-292.

v     The one-phase free boundary problem for the p-Laplacian with non-constant Bernoulli boundary condition, joint with A. Henrot. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 354 (2002), no. 6, 2399-2416.

v     C1,1-regularity in semilinear elliptic problems, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 56 (2003), no. 2, 278-281.

v     Regularity of the free boundary arising in superconductivity, (joint with L. Caffarelli, and J. Salazar). Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 171 (2004), no. 1, 115-128.

v     Regularity of a free boundary in parabolic potential theory, (Joint with L. Caffarelli, A. Petrosyan). Jour. Amer. Math. Soc.17 (2004), no. 4, 827-869)

v     The Two-Phase Membrane Problem -an Intersection-Comparison Approach to the Regularity at Branch Points, Joint with G.S. Weiss, Adv. Math.  205  (2006),  no. 2, 487—503.

v     Geometric and energetic criteria for the free boundary regularity in an obstacle-type problem, Joint with A. Petrosyan, American Journal of Mathematics, in Press

v     The two-phase membrane problem- regularity of the free boundary in higher dimensions, Joint with N. Uraltseva and G.S. Weiss,  Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2007, no. 8

 

SEFI = Societe Europeenne Pour la Formation Des Ingenieurs

KTH = Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Inst. of Technology)

 

 


 

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