Prof. Dr. Michel Chipot

Vita

Personal data

• Name: Michel Marie Chipot

• Citizenship: Swiss, French

Education

• Thèse de 3ème cycle, 1975, University of Nancy I: On a conjecture in the elastic-plastic torsion problem

• Thèse d'état, 1981, University of Paris VI: On some variational inequalities, flow in porous media (Advisor: H. Brezis)

Positions held

• 1976-1977 Military service

• 1977-1985 Assistant, Maitre Assistant (University of Nancy I)

• 1981-1982 Visiting Assistant Professor (Brown University, USA)

• 1983-1984 Visiting Associate Professor (University of Maryland, USA)

• 1984-1985 Research Associate (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)

• 1985 Professeur (University of Metz)

• 1987 Visiting Professor, 6 months (University of Minnesota)

• 1987 Visiting Professor, 1 semester (Carnegie Mellon University)

• 1990 Visiting Professor, 7 months (University of Minnesota)

• 1992 Visiting Professor, 1 semester (Carnegie Mellon University)

• 1995 Professor Ordinarius (University of Zürich)

Forschung

Research Interests

• Variational inequalities

• Nonlinear problems

• Elliptic equations and systems

• Parabolic equations

• Calculus of variations

• Applications

• Numerical Analysis