Gustavo Ponce

Gustavo A. Ponce (born 20 April 1952 in Venezuela[1]) is a Venezuelan mathematician.

Ponce graduated from the Central University of Venezuela with a bachelor's degree in 1976.

At the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University he graduated with a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1982 with thesis Long time stability of solutions of nonlinear evolution equations under the supervision of Sergiu Klainerman (and Louis Nirenberg).

[3] He was a visiting professor for brief periods at many academic institutions, including the University of Bonn in 1989, the University of Paris-Sud in 1997 (and again in 2003 and 2012), MSRI in 2001, the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in 2002 (and again in 2010), the Institute for Advanced Study in 2004, the Institute Henri Poincaré in 2009, the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2011, the University of the Basque Country in 2015, and IHES in 2016.

[3] In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker with talk On nonlinear dispersive equations at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.