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June 3, 2015

Daniela De Silva wins the second AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) will present the second AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis to Daniela De Silva, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Barnard College at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, WA in January 2016. Established in 2012, the AWM-Sadosky Research Prize recognizes exceptional research in analysis by a woman early in her career. The award is named for Cora Sadosky, a former president of AWM, and is made possible by generous contributions from Cora’s husband Daniel J. Goldstein, daughter Cora Sol Goldstein, and friends Judy and Paul S. Green and Concepción Ballester. The biennial presentation of this prize serves to highlight to the community outstanding contributions by women in the field of analysis, to advance the careers of the prize recipients, and to evoke the memory of all that Cora Sadosky exemplified as a mathematician, mentor and friend. The 2016 AWM-Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis is awarded to Daniela De Silva in recognition of her fundamental contributions to the regularity theory of nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations (PDE) and non-local integro-differential equations. De Silva received her doctorate in 2005 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After appointments at MSRI and Johns Hopkins University, she is currently an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College.

De Silva´s research centers on the analysis of free boundary problems, PDE problems solved for both an unknown function and an (embedded) unknown surface of discontinuity, such as a solid to liquid phase transition or the edge of a drop sitting on a surface. She has done seminal work and obtained outstanding results on one-phase problems and two-phase problems, as well as singular minimizing free boundary problems. Her originality, depth, and enormous technical skills are evident, for example, in her works with Roquejoffre on thin one phase problems, with Savin on a regularity theory for nonlocal free boundary problems,; with Ferrari and Salsa on a complete regularity theory for two phase problems in general media, and with Jerison on the construction of a singular minimizing free boundary. In particular, De Silva's solo paper “Free boundary regularity for a problem with right hand” has been highly praised by world leaders as one with tremendous impact that has inspired other distinguished authors to collaborate with her. De Silva is an outstanding and talented young analyst whose remarkable work has both answered important outstanding questions and opened new research directions. In 2013 De Silva’s work with Roquejoffre was recognized by a best paper award in Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré. Her research is supported by grants from both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the European Research Council (ERC).

The 2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings will be held January 6 –9 in Seattle, WA. For further information on the AWM-Sadosky Research Prize, including the previous winner, please visit www.awm-math.org.

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