Ovidiu Savin

Ovidiu Vasile Savin (born January 1, 1977) is a Romanian-American mathematician who is active in the field of the partial differential equations.

Savin is mostly known for his important work on Ennio De Giorgi's conjecture about global solutions to certain semilinear equations, that he proved up to dimension 8.

[1] It is to be noticed that the conjecture turns out to be false in higher dimensions, as eventually proved by Manuel del Pino, Michał Kowalczyk, and Juncheng Wei.

Savin won a gold medal with a perfect score in the 1995 International Mathematical Olympiad.

[3] As an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh in 1997, Savin was a William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition fellow.