Prof. Sylvia Serfaty
Silver Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Sylvia Serfaty is a French mathematician working in the field of partial differential equations and mathematical physics. Her work has particularly focused on the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity and quantum vortexes in the Ginzburg–Landau theory and on the statistical mechanics of Coulomb-type systems.
Prof. Serfaty authored a book on the Ginzburg-Landau theory with Étienne Sandier, Vortices in the Magnetic Ginzburg-Landau Model in 2007, and is one of the Editors-in-Chief of the scientific journal Probability and Mathematical Physics.
In 2004, she was awarded the EMS Prize for her contributions to the Ginzburg–Landau theory. Her other achievements include the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2012, and the Mergier–Bourdeix Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2013. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.