Student Paper Competition 2026

Student Paper Competition Committee:

Laurence Cherfils, Mihalis Dafermos, Wei Fang (co-chair), Maurizio Grasselli, Adam Kanigowski, Carlos Kenig, Kening Lu, Alain Miranville (co-chair)

Announcement:

Winners of the Competition 2026

To be determined during the conference

Student Paper Competition Finalists

Pietro Galimberti, "New Results for the Cahn-Hilliard Equation with non-degenerate mobility: well-posedness and longtime behavior"", University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

Davide Giovagnoli, "$C^{1+α}$ regularity for fractional p-harmonic functions", University of Bologna, Italy

Shuchen Guo, "From Kac particles to the Landau equation with hard potentials", University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Zachary Lee, "Low-regularity Invariant Measure for the Complex-Valued mKdV", University of Texas, United States

Fengliu Li, "Construction of bubbling solutions of the Brezis-Nirenberg problem in general bounded domains (I): the dimensions 4 and 5", China University of Mining and Technology, People's Republic of China

Justin Toyota, "From the quantum Boltzmann operator to the quantum Landau operator", University of Texas, United States

Naotaka Ukai, "A Parabolic Gradient Flow of Unknown-Dependent Energy", Chiba University, Japan

Yitian Wang, "Global well-posedness for semilinear heat equations with linear or nonlinear boundary dissipation", Harbin Engineering University, People's Republic of China

Student Paper Competition 2024
Student Paper Competition Schedule

Announcement:

Winners of the Competition 2024

First Place: Shohei Kohatsu, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Second Place: Meng Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Honorable Mention: Matteo Fornoni, University of Pavia, Italy

Student Paper Competition Finalists

Chourouk Bamri, “Asymptotic Behavior for a Dissipative Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Time-Dependent Damping”, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

Senhao Duan, “Standing Sphere Blow-up Solutions to The Nonlinear Heat Equation Singular Standing Solutions of the nonlinear heat equation”, CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine, Paris Sciences et Lettres, France

Matteo Fornoni, “Maximal regularity and optimal control for a non-local Cahn--Hilliard tumour growth model”, University of Pavia, via Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy

Shohei Kohatsu, “Immediate smoothing of measure-valued population densities in a flux-limited Keller--Segel system with nonlinear diffusion”, Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Binqian Niu, “Improved Stability Threshold of the Two-dimensional Couette Flow for Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq Systems via Quasi-linearization”, School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Faiq Raees, On the Hydrostatic Approximation of Navier-Stokes-Maxwell System with 2D Electronic Fields”, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, USA

Edoardo Tolotti, “Stability of the Von Kármán regime for thin plates under Neumann boundary conditions”, Università di Pavia, Italy

Meng Zhao, ”Ergodicity and mixing properties for white-forced dissipative PDEs in unbounded domains”, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Student Paper Competition 2023

Announcement:

Winners of the Competition 2023

First Place: Amelie Loher
Second Place: Tian-Yi Zhou
Honorable Mentions: Alessandro Columbu and Yuya Tanaka

Announcement:

Student Paper Competition Results

The information for the student paper competition finalists:

Yutaro Chiyo, ''Global Existence and Boundedness in a Fully Parabolic Chemotaxis System for Tumor Angiogenesis'', Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Alessandro Columbu, ''Properties of Given Unbounded Solutions to a Class of Chemotaxis Models'', Universita di Cagliari, Italy

Amelie Loher, ''Quantitative Schauder Estimates for Kinetic Equations'', University of Cambridge, UK

Daiki Mizuno, ''Pseudo-Parabolic System Governed by KWC-Energy of Grain Boundary Motion'', Chiba University, Japan

Thialita Nascimento, ''New Regularity Estimates for Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations'', University of Central Florida, USA

Daniel Restrepo, ''Grad-Mercier Equation in Plasma Physics: Uniqueness, Regularity, and Free Boundary Analysis'', The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Yuya Tanaka, ''Does Chemotaxis Produce Blow-up in a Two-Species Chemotaxis-Competition Model?'', Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Tian-Yi Zhou, ''Learning Ability of Interpolating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks'', Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Student Paper Competition 2018
Student Paper Competition Schedule

Announcement:

We are pleased to announce the following finalists for the 2018 AIMS Student Paper Competition:

Ibrahim Almuslimani, “Optimal explicit stabilized integrator of weak order one for stiff and ergodic stochastic differential equations”. University of Geneva, Switzerland

Ioakeim Ampatzoglou, “A rigorous derivation of a cubic Boltzmann-type equation for a classical system of hard-spheres”, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Michal Bathory, “Identification of outflow boundary conditions on artificial boundaries leading to the smallest dissipation”, Charles University, Czech Republic

Duc-Lam Duong, “Solitary waves for a coupled system of quadratic nonlinear Schroedinger equations”, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Andrea Giorgini, “Global well-posedness of strong solution to the Cahn-Hilliard-Hele-Shaw system with unmatched viscosities”, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Takanori Kuroda, “Local well-posedness of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in general domains based on the theory of parabolic equations”, Waseda University, Japan

Hung Nguyen, “The generalized Langevin equation with power-law memory in a nonlinear potential well”, Tulane University, USA

Simon Plazotta, “A BDF2-approach for the non-linear Fokker-Planck equation”, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Matthew Rosenzweig, “Global well-posedness and scattering for the Davey-Stewartson system at critical regularity”, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Xianjin Yang, “Hessian Riemannian flows for effective Hamiltonians and Mather measures”, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Student Paper Competition, 2016

Announcement:

Winners of the Competition 2016

First Place: Yoshitaro Tanaka
Second Place: Numann Malik
Honorable Mentions: Anna Kostianko and Masaaki Mizukami

Announcement:

We are pleased to announce the following finalists for the 2016 AIMS Student Paper Competition:

Gaurav Dwivedi, ''Picone's identity for p-biharmonic operator and its applications'', Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India
Arielle Gaudiello, ''A mathematical model of the human papillomavirus (HPV) with a case study in Japan'', University of Central Florida, USA
Anna Kostianko, ''Inertial manifolds for semilinear parabolic equations which do not satisfy the spectral gap condition'', University of Surrey, England
Priscila Leal da Silva, ''On a homogeneous evolution equation: Lax pair and peakon solutions'', Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
Numann Malik, ''Dark soliton linearization of the 1D Gross-Pitaevskii equation: long-time asymptotics'', Brown University, USA
Masaaki Mizukami, ''Global existence and asymptotic stability of solutions to a two-species chemotaxis system'', Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Matteo Rinaldi, ''Slow motion for the one-dimensional Swift-Hohenberg equation'', Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Yoshitaro Tanaka, ''Reaction-diffusion approximation for understanding pattern formations through non-local interactions'', Meiji University, Japan
Huiju Wang, ''Unified weighted Poincare inequalities in metric measure space and applications'', Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Qingtian Zhang, ''Global wellposedness of cubic Camassa-Holm equations'', Penn State University, USA

Student Paper Competition, 2014

Award Ceremony

Anton Savostianov, First Place	Andrei Tarfulea, Second Place
Piotr Kamienski, Honorable Mention	Bao Q. Tang, Honorable Mention

Announcement:

We are pleased to announce the following finalists for the inaugural 2014 AIMS Student Paper Competition:

Vladimir Bobkov, ''On Maximum and Comparison Principles for Parabolic Problems with p-Laplacian'', Universitat Rostock, Germany
Piotr Kamienski, ''A finite information KAM theorem'', Jagiellonian University, Poland
Priscila Leal da Silva, ''Strict self-adjointness and shallow water models'', Centro de Matematica, Computacao e Cognicao, CMCC, UFABC, Brazil
Ye Li, ''An equation decomposition based tailored finite point method for linearized incompressible flow in 2D space'', Tsinghua University, China
Catalina Vich Llompart, ''Slow-fast n-dimensional piecewise linear differential systems'', Universitat de les Illes Balears, Mallorca
Daisuke Naimen, ''The critical problem of Kirchhoff type elliptic equations in dimension four'', Osaka City University, Japan
Anton Savostianov, ''Strichartz estimates and smooth attractors for wave equations with fractional damping in bounded domains'', University of Surrey, UK
Yoshitaro Tanaka, ''Reaction-diffusion model aided understanding of pattern formation of inflorescence'', Meiji University, Japan
Bao Q. Tang, ''Well-posedness and exponential equilibration of a volume-surface reaction-diffusion system with nonlinear boundary coupling'', University of Graz, Austria
Andrei Tarfulea, ''Long Time Behavior of the Forced Critical Surface Quasi-geostrophic Equation'', Princeton University, USA