André Neves
André Neves | |
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| Born | 1975
Lisbon, Portugal
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| Alma mater |
Stanford University Instituto Superior Técnico |
| Known for |
Willmore conjecture Freedman–He–Wang conjecture Min-Oo Conjecture Works on geometric flows Equidistribution of minimal hypersurfaces |
| Awards |
Leverhulme Prize (2012) Whitehead Prize (2013) Veblen Prize in Geometry (2016) New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2015) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
University of Chicago Imperial College London Princeton University |
| Thesis | Singularities for Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Schoen |
| Website | math |
André da Silva Graça Arroja Neves (born 1975, Lisbon) is a Portuguese mathematician and a professor at the University of Chicago. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2016. In 2012, jointly with Fernando Codá Marques, he solved the Willmore conjecture.
Neves received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Stanford University under the direction of Richard Melvin Schoen.
Contributions
Jointly with Hugh Bray, he computed the Yamabe invariant of 
Honors and awards
He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2012, the LMS Whitehead Prize in 2013, invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul in 2014, and the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2015.
In November 2015 he was awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize in November 2015, "for outstanding contributions to several areas of differential geometry, including work on scalar curvature, geometric flows, and his solution with Codá Marques of the 50-year-old Willmore Conjecture."
Jointly with Fernando Codá Marques he was awarded the 2016 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.
In 2018 he received a Simons Investigator Award.
He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020.