Jalal M. I. Shatah

About

Jalal M. I. Shatah is Silver Professor of Mathematics at NYU Courant. His research focuses on global existence and asymptotic behavior of small solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic and dispersive equations.

Education

• Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA, 1983
• M.S., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, USA, 1981
• B.S., Mathematics and Engineering Science, University of Texas, Austin, USA, 1979

Selected publications

• The Cauchy problem for wave maps
• Geometry and a priori estimates for free boundary problems of the Euler equation
• Global solutions for the gravity water waves equation in dimension 3