CURRICULUM VITAE NILS DENCKER Department of Mathematics Tel: +46 46 222 44 62 Faculty of Science Fax: +46 46 222 42 13 Lund University Mobile: +46 705 78 79 56 Box 118 SE-221 00 Lund, SWEDEN Email: dencker@maths.lth.se Date of birth: December 14, 1953 EDUCATION Ph.D. 1981, Mathematics, Lund University Advisor: Lars Hörmander Thesis title: On the propagation of singularities for pseudo-differential operators of Principal Type B.Sc. 1976, Lund University PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2006 Full Professor, Lund University 1988 2006 Associate Professor, Lund University 1988 Habilitation (Docent), Lund University 1983 1988 Assistant Professor, Lund University 1981 1983 C.L.E. Moore Instructor, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1976 1981 Teaching Assistant and Student Counselor, Lund University GRANTS and PRIZES 2001 2017 VR (Swedish Research Council) grant 2005 Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute 2003 Gårding Prize from the Royal Fysiographic Society in Lund 1998 2000 NFR (Swedish Science Research Council) grant 1992 1997 Research grant from the Faculty of Science, Lund University 1988 1991 NFR grant 1984 1987 Research grant from the Faculty of Science, Lund University 1983 Strömer Ferrner Award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1982 1983 NSF grant ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE 2015 Preses of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund 2014 Swedish delegate to the IMU General Assembly, Gyeongju, Korea 2013 Chairman of the Class for Mathematics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2013 Chairman of the Meetings Committee of the European Mathematical Society 2010 Swedish delegate to the IMU General Assembly, Bangalore, India 2010 Member of the Board of Institute Mittag-Leffler 2009 2014 Member of the Swedish National Committee for Mathematics 2009 2010 VR observer at Forward Look in Mathematics and Industry
2009 Elector of the Board of the Swedish Research Council (VR) 2009 Member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund 2008 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2008 2012 Member of the Academic Appointments Board, Science Faculty, Lund 2007 2012 Member of the Mathematics Panel, Swedish Research Council 2007 2009 Chairman of the Swedish Mathematical Society 2006 Swedish delegate to the IMU General Assembly, Santiago, Spain 2006 Swedish delegate to the EMS Council, Torino, Italy 2005 2007 Vice Chairman of the Swedish Mathematical Society 2005 2012 Member of the VR committee RFN 2002 2007 Member of the ESF networking programme SPECT 2002 2004 Member of the Departmental Board, Department of Mathematics, Lund University 2001 2014 Chairman of the Lund Mathematical Society 2001 2003 Director of Studies in Mathematics, Lund University 2001 2003 Member of the Undergraduate Education Board, Science Faculty, Lund 1999 2000 Member of the Mathematics Committee, NFR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS Editor of Arkiv för Matematik Editor of the International Mathematics Research Notices Former Editor of the International Mathematics Research Papers Former Editorial Board Member of the Open Mathematics Journal Former Editorial Board Member of Annali dell Universitá di Ferrara MASTER S STUDENT SUPERVISION Tanja Bergqvist 2000 Pelle Borgeke 2008 PHD STUDENT SUPERVISION Wolfgang Staubach 1999 Olivia Constantin (assistant supervisor) 2005 Jens Wittsten 2010 Pelle Borgeke 2012 POSTDOC SUPERVISION Wei-Xi Li 2008 2010 Joe Viola 2010 2012 Wen Deng 2012 2014 EXPERT ON APPOINTMENT BOARDS Kalmar University, Sweden, 1994 Karlskrona University, Sweden, 1996 Kalmar University, Sweden, 1997 Göteborg University, Sweden, 2007 KTH, Sweden, 2009 2
3 APPOINTED EXAMINER AT THESIS DEFENCES Steve Izen, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1983 Yang Liu, Lund University, Sweden, 1992 Peter Pettersson, Lund University, Sweden, 1993 Olivier Goffaux, University of Rennes, France, 1998 Michael Hitrik, Lund University, Sweden, 1998 Ozan Öktem, Stockholm University, Sweden, 1999 Niels Christian Overgaard, Lund University, Sweden, 2002 Bjarne Jørgensen (Astronomy), Lund University, Sweden, 2005 Karel Pravda-Starov, University of Rennes, France, 2006 Johan Thim, Linköping University, Sweden, 2006 Anders Hansson, KTH, Sweden, 2008 Patrik Wahlberg, Växjö University, Sweden, 2008 Olivier Verdier, Lund, Sweden, 2009 Wen Deng, Jussiau, Paris, France, 2012 Lior Aermark, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014 SCIENTIFIC REVIEWER IN HABILITATIONS AND PROMOTIONS Grigorij Rozenblioum, Göteborg University, Sweden, 1997 Rashid Regbaoui, Université de Brest, France, 2003 Alexei Ianchenko, Malmö University, Sweden, 2004 Frederic Hereau, Université de Reims, France, 2007 Joachim Toft, Linnéan University, Sweden, 2009 Tomas Ekholm, KTH, Sweden, 2011 Patrik Wahlberg, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2015 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Operators of subprincipal type, ArXiv:1507.05594. Solvability and limit bicharacteristics, ArXiv:1506.05675. On the microlocal properties of the range of systems of principal type, with J. Wittsten, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 38 (2013), 410 454. On the solvability of systems of pseudodifferential operators, Geometric Aspects of Analysis and Mechanics, A Conference in Honor of Hans Duistermaat, Progr. Math. 292, Birkhäuser, New York, 2011, 121 159. The solvability of differential equations, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, 2010, 1958 1984. The solvability and subellipticity of systems of pseudodifferential operators, Advances in phase space analysis of partial differential equations, Progr. Nonlinear Differential Equations Appl., 78, Birkhäuser, Boston, 2009, 73 94. The pseudospectrum of systems of semiclassical operators, Anal. PDE 1 (2008), 323 373. On the solvability of pseudo-differential operators, Séminaire Equations aux Dérivées Partielles du Centre de Mathématiques de l Ecole Polytechnique, 2005 2006. The resolution of the Nirenberg Treves conjecture, Ann. of Math. 163 (2006), 405 444. The solvability of pseudo-differential operators, Phase space analysis of partial differential equations, Vol. I, Pubbl. Cent. Ric. Mat. Ennio Giorgi, Scuola Norm. Sup., Pisa, 2004, 175 200. Pseudospectra of semi-classical (pseudo)differential operators, with J. Sjöstrand and M. Zworski, Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 57 (2004), 384-415.
The question of solvability, Hyperbolic Problems and related Topics (F. Colombini and T. Nishitani, eds.), International Press, Somerville, Mass, USA, 2003, 159 184. A sufficient condition for solvability, Int. Math. Res. Not. 1999:12, 627 659. Hypoellipticity for operators of infinitely degenerate Egorov type, joint work with Y. Morimoto and T. Morioka, Tsukuba J. Math. 23 (1999), 215 224. Estimates and solvability, Arkiv för Matematik 37 (1999), 221 243; Correction, Arkiv för Matematik 43 (2005), 143 144. A class of solvable operators, Geometrical Optics and Related Topics (F. Colombini and N. Lerner, eds.), Birkhäuser, Boston, Mass, USA, 1997, 141 177. The propagation of polarization for systems of transversal type, Arkiv för Matematik 33 (1995), 249 279. Preparation theorems for matrix valued functions, Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 43 (1993), 865 892. On the propagation of singularities for pseudo-differential operators with characteristics of variable multiplicity, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 17 (1992), 1709 1736. The propagation of polarization in double refraction, Journal of Functional Analysis 104 (1992), 414 468. The propagation of singularities for pseudo-differential operators with self-tangential characteristics, Arkiv för Matematik 27 (1989), 65 88. On the propagation of polarization in conical refraction, Duke Mathematical Journal 57 (1988), 85 134. The Weyl calculus with locally temperate metrics and weights, Arkiv för Matematik 24 (1986), 59 79. On the propagation of polarization sets for systems of real principal type, Journal of Functional Analysis 46 (1982), 351 372. On the propagation of singularities for pseudo-differential operators of principal type, Arkiv för matematik 20 (1982), 23 60. INVITED LECTURES and RESEARCH VISITS Mathematical aspects of physics with non-self-adjoint operators, American Institute of Mathematics, San Jose, California, USA, June 2015. Visiting researcher at Berkeley, California, USA, November 2014. Pseudospectra of operators: spectral singularities, semiclassics, pencils and random matrices, ICMS, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 2014. Operator Theory and Mathematical Physics 2014, IML, Djursholm, July 2014. Visiting researcher at Bologna, Italy, October 2013. Visiting researcher at Helsinki, Finland, August 2013. Advances in Mathematical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, MLI, Djursholm, July 2012. Spectral analysis of non-selfadjoint operators, CIRM, France, December 2011. Sixth International Conference on Differential and Functional Differential Equations DFDE 2011, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia, August 2011. First Swedish-Catalan Mathematical Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, September 2010. International Congress of Mathematicians ICM2010, Hyderabad, India, August 2010. KTH/SU Mathematics Colloquium, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2009. 4
Selected Topics in Spectral Theory, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, July 2009. 25th Nordic and 1st British-Nordic congress of Mathematicians, Oslo, Norway, June 2009. Växjö University Mathematical Seminar, Växjö, Sweden, June 2009. Spectral Theory and Partial Differential Equations, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2008. Visiting researcher at Mathematics Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California, USA, October 2008. 5:th European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2008. Pseudo-differential Operators and Related Topics, Växjö, Sweden, June 2008. Visiting researcher at Bonn University, Bonn, Germany, May 2008. EMS Mathematical Weekend, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2008. Phase Space Analysis of PDE s 2007, Siena, Italy, October 2007. Solvability and Spectral Instability, Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, Mass, USA, September 2007. Geometric Aspects of Analysis and Mechanics, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 2007. Visiting researcher at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, April 2007. Microlocal Analysis and Applications to PDE, Centro De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy, November 2006. Regularity in Hyperbolic Problems, Bertinoro, Italy, November 2006. Visiting researcher at University of Washington, Stanford University and UCLA, USA, October 2006. Visiting researcher at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, April 2006. Linear and nonlinear waves, Osaka, Japan, November 2005. Visiting researcher at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, October 2005. The Third French-Tunisian PDE Meeting, Hammamet, Tunisia, September 2005. Harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, Kiel, Germany, June 2005. Analyse Semi-Classique, Hypoellipticite & Mecanique Statistique, Reims, France, June 2005. Phase Space Analysis and related topics, Grado, Italy, September 2004. Degenerate PDEs and Singular Geometries, Potsdam, Germany, August 2004. Visiting researcher at the Trimester Phase Space Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Centro De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy, April 2004. Phase Space Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Bertinoro, Italy, November 2003. Equations aux Dérivées Partielles, Forges-les-Eaux, France, June 2003. Mathematical Semi-Classical Analysis at Mathematics Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California, USA, May 2003. Partial differential equations and spectral theory, MLI, Djursholm, Sweden, October 2002. Hyperbolic Problems and Related Topics, Cortona, Italy, September 2002. Visiting researcher at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, March 2002. The Tsukuba Symposium, Tsukuba, Japan, February 2002. The First Joint AMS-Scandinavian International Mathematics Meeting, Odense, Denmark, June 2000. Partial Differential Equations and Related Topics, University of Pisa, Italy, May 2000. International Conference on Analysis and Mathematical Physics in Honour of Lars Gårding on his 80th birthday, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, August 1999. 5