Stampacchia Medal Explained

The Stampacchia Gold Medal is an international prize awarded every three years by the Italian Mathematical Union (Unione Matematica Italiana – UMI) together with the Ettore Majorana Foundation (Erice), in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of Calculus of Variations and related applications.^[1] The medal, named after the Italian mathematician Guido Stampacchia, goes to a mathematician whose age does not exceed 35.

Prize winners

• 2003 Tristan Rivière (ETH Zürich)
• 2006 Giuseppe Mingione (University of Parma)
• 2009 Camillo De Lellis (University of Zurich)
• 2012 Ovidiu Savin (Columbia University)
• 2015 Alessio Figalli (The University of Texas at Austin)^[2]
• 2018 Guido De Philippis (International School for Advanced Studies)^[3]
• 2021 Xavier Ros-Oton (ICREA and Universitat de Barcelona)^[4]
• 2024 Maria Colombo (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)^[5]

See also

• List of mathematics awards

External links

• European Mathematical Society newsletter with the announcement of the 2012 Stampacchia Medal (pag. 17)
• Official Site of the Italian Mathematical Union (UMI)
• 2015 Stampacchia Medal citation (UMI)

Notes and References

1. http://umi.dm.unibo.it/premi/gold-medal-guido-stampacchia/ Stampacchia Medal on the site of the Italian Mathematical Union
2. http://umi.dm.unibo.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/motivazioni_figalli.pdf Stampacchia Medal winner citation
3. http://normalenews.sns.it/il-premio-internazionale-guido-stampacchia-a-de-philippis-ex-allievo-phd-di-matematica/ Announcement of the site
4. https://umi.dm.unibo.it/2021/06/30/xavier-ros-oton-vince-la-medaglia-doro-guido-stampacchia/ Announcement from the UMI
5. https://umi.dm.unibo.it/2024/09/02/medaglia-doro-guido-stampacchia-2024-a-maria-colombo// Announcement from the UMI