This year’s lecture, entitled ‘Some models of segregation’, will be delivered by Luis A. Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin).

Luis A. Caffarelli (born in 1948 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a world-famous mathematician specialising partial differential equation theory. He completed his MSc and PhD studies at the University of Buenos Aires under the supervision of Calixto Calderón. He has worked at institutions such as  the University of Minnesota, University of Chicago, Courant Institute and Institute of Advanced Study. Currently, he is employed at the University of Texas at Austin.

His ground-breaking research studies include projects on free surface and the regularity of a broad class of nonlinear partial differential equations. The methods developed by Caffarelli are universally regarded as fundamental.

Caffarelli has received many awards, including Leroy P. Steele Prize (2009) and Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2012). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Stanisław Łojasiewicz was a distinguished 20th century Polish mathematician. His entire career, from his enrolment in 1945 until his death in 2002, was closely tied to the Jagiellonian University.