Michael Viscardi

Michael Viscardi
Born	February 22, 1989 (1989-02-22) (age 22) Plano, Texas
Nationality	American
Fields	Mathematics
Alma mater	Harvard University
Academic advisors	Shing-Tung Yau Joe Harris
Known for	Works on the Dirichlet problem
Notable awards	2010 Hoopes Prize

Michael Anthony Viscardi (born February 22, 1989 in Plano, Texas) of San Diego, California is a young mathematician who won the 2005 Siemens Westinghouse Competition and Davidson Fellowship with a mathematical project on the Dirichlet problem, whose applications include describing the flow of heat across a metal surface, winning $100,000 and $50,000 in scholarships, respectively.^[1][2] Viscardi's theorem is an expansion of the 19th-century work of Lejeune Dirichlet.^[3] He was also named a finalist with the same project in the Intel Science Talent Search. Viscardi placed Best of Category in Mathematics at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in May 2006. Viscardi also qualified for the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad and the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.

Other notes

He is a member of the Harvard College class of 2010.^[4] He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard, receiving the 2010 Thomas T. Hoopes, Class of 1919, Prize, and earning 2011 Morgan Prize honorable mention for his senior thesis "Alternate Compactifications of the Moduli Space of Genus One Maps".^[5]

His Erdős number is 3.^{[citation needed]}

Selected publication

•    ; Ebenfelt, Peter (2007), "An Explicit Solution to the Dirichlet Problem with Rational Holomorphic Data in Terms of a Riemann Mapping", Computational Methods and Function Theory 7 (1): 127–140 .

References

1. ^ Briggs, Tracey Wong (December 5, 2005), "Problems no problem for Siemens winners", USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-05-homeschooledscience_x.htm .
2. ^ Rodriguez, Juan-Carlos (December 6, 2005), "California teen wins science competition", Seattle Times, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2002667009_sciencekid06.html .
3. ^ "Teen Updates 19th-Century Mathematical Law", ABC News, December 9, 2005, http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/TenWays/story?id=2128438 .
4. ^ Herchel Smith Research Fellows to begin this summer
5. ^ arXiv:1005.1431

External links

• Michael Viscardi: Person of the Week
• Michael's Presentation
• Biography at Davidson Institute site

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Name	Viscardi, Michael
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Date of birth	February 22, 1989
Place of birth	Plano, Texas
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