Sylvia Serfaty | |
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.jpg) Serfaty at theICM 2018 | |
| Born | (1975-11-06)November 6, 1975 (age 50) Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Alma mater | Paris-Sud 11 University |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | New York University |
| Doctoral advisor | Fabrice Bethuel |
Sylvia Serfaty (born 1975)[1] is a Frenchmathematician working in theUnited States. She won the 2004EMS Prize for her contributions to theGinzburg–Landau theory, theHenri Poincaré Prize in 2012, and theMergier–Bourdeix Prize [fr] of theFrench Academy of Sciences in 2013.[2]
Serfaty was born and raised inParis.[3] She was interested in mathematics since high school.
Serfaty earned herdoctorate fromParis-Sud 11 University in 1999, under supervision ofFabrice Bethuel.[4] She then held a teaching position (agrégé préparateur) at theÉcole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Since 2007 she has held a professorship at theCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences ofNYU.
Serfaty's research is part of the field ofpartial differential equations andmathematical physics. Her work particularly focuses on the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity andquantum vortices in theGinzburg–Landau theory. She has also worked on the statistical mechanics of Coulomb-type systems.
In 2007 she published a book on the Ginzburg-Landau theory with Étienne Sandier,Vortices in the Magnetic Ginzburg-Landau Model.[3]She was an invited plenary speaker at the 2018International Congress of Mathematicians.[5]
She was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.[6]
She is one of the editors-in-chief of the scientific journalProbability and Mathematical Physics.[7]
