David Witt Nyström elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
At the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ General Meeting on 6 May, three new Swedish members were elected to the Academy. One of them was David Witt Nyström, Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, who was elected to the Class for mathematics.
“It’s very exciting! I’m looking forward to contributing to the Academy’s work in promoting the sciences, especially mathematics, and strengthening their position in society,” says David Witt Nyström.
From the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ website:
David Witt Nyström is Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg. His area of research is complex geometry, a field of mathematics that studies advanced geometric structures using complex numbers. His research also has connections to global pluripotential theory and related areas such as convex geometry.
The questions he studies include geodesics in spaces of Kähler metrics, volumes of cohomology classes, and non-Archimedean Kähler geometry. A central part of his research concerns the so-called Yau–Tian–Donaldson conjecture, which relates the existence of certain Kähler metrics to geometric notions of stability. Witt Nyström has developed new methods to study these questions, including by formulating problems in terms of filtrations and using tools from pluripotential theory and non-Archimedean geometry.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in 1739 and is an independent organisation whose overall objective is to promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society. The Academy consists of approximately 480 Swedish and 175 foreign members.
Following the election of David Witt Nyström, nine of the 45 members of the Class for mathematics are now from the Department of Mathematical Sciences.