C'est avec grand plaisir que le CRM annonce la remise du Prix de mathématiques André-Aisenstadt de l'année 1999 à Changfeng Gui de l'Université de la Colombie-Britannique et au University of Connecticut.

The CRM takes great pleasure in announcing the awarding of the 1999 André Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize to Professor Changfeng GUI of the University of British Columbia and University of Connecticut.

Résumé / Abstract

Some Mathematical Problems related to Phase Transitions
Gradient theory of phase transitions has been studied extensively in last thirty years, particularly in connection with minimal surfaces and motions by mean curvatures. In this talk I will discuss some progresses in answering some foundamental questions related to this theory, including the solutions to the Gibbons conjecture and the De Giorgi conjecture. These conjectures concern the basic configurations of states near phase interfaces.