Robert Seiringer
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Robert Seiringer is an Austria
n mathematical physicist.
, where in 1999 he acquired his diploma and in 2000 with Jakob Yngvason
as thesis advisor attained a doctorate. In 2005 he attained his habilitation qualification at the University of Vienna. With a Schrödinger scholarship, he went in 2001 to Princeton University
. There he became in 2003 assistant professor. Starting from 2010 he is an associate professor at McGill University
. In addition he is extraordinarius professor at the University of Vienna. Seiringer made substantial progress in the mathematical theory of quantum gases and particularly Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). He partly proved the existence of BEC for interacting boson gases in the Gross-Pitaevskii limit in collaboration with Elliott Lieb. They proved also superfluidity in this limit and derived the Gross-Pitaevskii equation
in the special case of BEC in rotating containers. In 2009 Seiringer received the Henri Poincaré Prize.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n mathematical physicist.
Life and work
Seiringer studied physics at the University of ViennaUniversity of Vienna
The University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world...
, where in 1999 he acquired his diploma and in 2000 with Jakob Yngvason
Jakob Yngvason
Jakob Yngvason is an Icelandic/Austrian physicist. He is professor of mathematical physics at the University of Vienna and Scientific Director of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna...
as thesis advisor attained a doctorate. In 2005 he attained his habilitation qualification at the University of Vienna. With a Schrödinger scholarship, he went in 2001 to Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. There he became in 2003 assistant professor. Starting from 2010 he is an associate professor at McGill University
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
. In addition he is extraordinarius professor at the University of Vienna. Seiringer made substantial progress in the mathematical theory of quantum gases and particularly Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). He partly proved the existence of BEC for interacting boson gases in the Gross-Pitaevskii limit in collaboration with Elliott Lieb. They proved also superfluidity in this limit and derived the Gross-Pitaevskii equation
Gross-Pitaevskii equation
The Gross–Pitaevskii equation describes the ground state of a quantum system of identical bosons using the Hartree–Fock approximation and the pseudopotential interaction model....
in the special case of BEC in rotating containers. In 2009 Seiringer received the Henri Poincaré Prize.
Works
- Seiringer Hot topics in cold gases. Plenary address, 16. International Congress on Mathematical Physics, Prague 2009
- with Elliott Lieb: The stability of matter in quantum mechanics. Cambridge University Press 2009, ISBN 0-521-19118-1.