Oberwolfach Prize 2025 goes to Yu Deng

Yu Deng is professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. He studied mathematics at Peking University and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology and obtained his Ph.D. in 2015 at Princeton University under the supervision of Alexandru Ionescu. Over the past decade, he has quickly emerged as a remarkably original thinker whose work has already exerted a substantial influence on PDE theory and mathematical physics. Recent breakthroughs include the derivation of the wave kinetic equation from the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, and the derivation of the Boltzmann equation from the dynamics of hard spheres (in collaboration with Hani and Hani–Ma). More detailed insights into the impressive body of work of Yu Deng are provided in the laudatio of Martin Hairer.

Photo: Courtesy of Yu Deng