André Neves

André Neves
André Neves
Born	1975; Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality	Portuguese
Alma mater	Stanford University; Instituto Superior Técnico
Known for	Willmore conjecture; Freedman–He–Wang conjecture; Min-Oo Conjecture; Works on geometric flows
Awards	Whitehead Prize (2013); Veblen Prize in Geometry (2016)
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Chicago; Imperial College London; Princeton University
Thesis	Singularities for Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow (2005)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Schoen
Website	http://math.uchicago.edu/~aneves/

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.[1]

Contributions

Jointly with Hugh Bray, they computed the Yamabe invariant of $\mathbb {R} \mathbb {P} ^{3}$ . In 2012, jointly with Fernando Codá Marques, they solved the Willmore conjecture (Thomas Willmore, 1965). In the same year, jointly with Ian Agol and Fernando Codá Marques, they solved the Freedman–He–Wang conjecture (Freedman–He–Wang, 1994). In 2017, jointly with Kei Irie and Fernando Codá Marques, they solved Yau's conjecture (formulated by Shing-Tung Yau in 1982) in the generic case.[2]

In November 2015 he was awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize[5] 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."[6]

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