Professor Gunther Uhlmann, the Excellence in Teaching Endowed Chair in Mathematics at UCI, has won the 2011 Bôcher Memorial Prize by American Mathematical Society (AMS) for his fundamental work on inverse problems, his incisive work on boundary rigidity and nonuniqueness (also known as cloaking).
 
The Bôcher Memorial Prize, the first to be offered by the AMS, was founded in memory of Professor Maxime Bôcher, who served as President of the AMS 1909-1910. Presented every three years by the American Mathematical Society, the Bôcher Prize recognizes an outstanding research paper in the field of mathematical analysis that has appeared in the preceding six years.
 
Professor Uhlmann received his PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 1976. He has had postdoctoral appointments at Harvard, MIT and the Courant Institute at NYU. He has received several honors and awards including a Sloan Fellowship in 1984 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2001. In 2004, the Institute of Scientific Information named him as a Highly Cited Researcher. He was elected to be a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Most recently he was elected a SIAM Fellow in 2010, for his contributions to the analysis of inverse problems and partial differential equations. Most recently, Professor Uhlmann was named as one of six Senior Scholars for 2010-2011 by the Clay Institute. He was also the recipient of the MSRI / UC Berkeley Chancellor's Award. Chancellor's Scholarships are awarded to top researchers who are also known for their excellent teaching credentials. Professor Uhlmann was part of the MSRI program in Inverse Problems in Fall 2010. He has given numerous prestigious plenary and guest lectures and was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin and a Plenary Lecturer at the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Zurich, Switzerland. He has organized many conferences and workshops at the national and international level and served on many important committees in the mathematics community. His publication list has more than 150 refereed papers in top journals in mathematics and other fields. Prior to joining UCI he was the Walker Family Endowed Professor in Mathematics at the University of Washington. Professor Uhlmann's research focuses on inverse problems, microlocal analysis and partial differential equations.
 
More information about the award can be found here and here.