Mónica Clapp Explained

Mónica Clapp
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Alma Mater:	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Thesis Title:	Dualität in der Kategorie der Spektren von Ex-Räumen
Thesis Year:	1979
Doctoral Advisors:	Dieter Siegmund Puppe, Albrecht Dold
Known For:	Nonlinear partial differential equations
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Mónica Alicia Clapp Jiménez Labora is a mathematician at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) known for her work in nonlinear partial differential equations and algebraic topology.

Life and work

Clapp was born in Mexico City.^[1] She graduated from UNAM in 1974. Clapp then graduated with her Ph.D from Heidelberg University in 1979, and has been a faculty member at UNAM since that time.

Clapp has been an editor of the journals Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana and Aportaciones Matemáticas.^[1]

Awards and honors

In 2012, Clapp became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[2] She is also a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.^[3]

Selected publications

• Clapp, Mónica; Puppe, Dieter Invariants of the Lusternik-Schnirelmann type and the topology of critical sets. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 298 (1986), no. 2, 603–620.
• Clapp, Mónica; Puppe, Dieter Critical point theory with symmetries. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 418 (1991), 1–29.
• Bartsch, Thomas; Clapp, Mónica Critical point theory for indefinite functionals with symmetries. Journal of Functional Analysis 138 (1996), no. 1, 107–136.
• Castro, Alfonso; Clapp, Mónica The effect of the domain topology on the number of minimal nodal solutions of an elliptic equation at critical growth in a symmetric domain. Nonlinearity 16 (2003), no. 2, 579–590.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mónica Clapp (Investigadora). Instituto de Matemáticas. Feb 2, 2015.
2. http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
3. Web site: Mathematics section members. Mexican Academy of Sciences. 2021. 2022-11-18.