David Nualart facts for kids

David Nualart is a Spanish mathematician. He is famous for his work in probability theory. This is a part of math that studies chance and how likely events are to happen. He also worked on stochastic processes and stochastic analysis. These are advanced topics about things that change randomly over time. He used to be a special professor at the University of Kansas. He retired in 2022.

David's Education and Career

Early Life and Studies

David Nualart was born on March 21, 1951. He studied mathematics and earned his PhD degree in 1975. He got this degree from the University of Barcelona in Spain. His PhD was about "stochastic integrals," which are special kinds of math calculations involving randomness. His teacher was Francesc d'Assís Sales Vallès.

Teaching and Research

After finishing his studies, David Nualart worked at the University of Barcelona. He also taught at the Polytechnique University of Barcelona. Later, he moved to the United States. He became a professor at the University of Kansas. From 2012 to 2022, he held a special title there: Black-Babcock Distinguished Professor. This means he was a very important and respected professor in the Mathematics Department. He stopped working there in 2022.

Leading a Math Journal

David Nualart also helped share new math ideas. He was the main editor for a math journal called Electronic Communications in Probability. He held this important role from 2006 to 2008.

Awards and Honors

David Nualart has received many awards and honors for his math work.

• In 1997, he was chosen as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. This is a special honor for people who have made big contributions to statistics.
• In 1998, he received an honorary doctorate from the Université Blaise Pascal in France. This is a special degree given to people who have achieved great things.
• He won the Prize IBERDROLA de Ciencia y Tecnologia in 1999.
• Since 2003, he has been a Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Fisicas y Naturales of Madrid. This means he is connected to a very important science academy in Spain.
• Also in 2003, he became a member of the Reial Academia de Ciencies i Arts of Barcelona. This is another respected academy in Spain.
• He received the Research Prize of the Real Academia de Ciencias de Madrid in 1991.

Special Recognition

In March 2011, a special conference was held in his honor. It was called the International Conference on Malliavin Calculus and Stochastic Analysis. This event took place at the University of Kansas. The ideas shared at this conference were later published in a book in 2013. This book was a festschrift, which is a collection of writings by different people to honor a respected scholar. Its title was Malliavin Calculus and Stochastic Analysis: A Festschrift in Honor of David Nualart.

In 2023, David Nualart was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. This honor was given to him for his important work in areas like Malliavin calculus, stochastic partial differential equations (PDEs), and fractional Brownian motion.

See also

In Spanish: David Nualart para niños