Giovanni Gallavotti


Giovanni Gallavotti is an Italian mathematical physicist, born in Naples on December 29, 1941.
He is the recipient of the "Premio Nazionale Presidente della Repubblica", presso la Classe di Scienze Naturali dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 18 June 1997, and the Boltzmann Medal awarded by IUPAP- International Union of Pure and Applied Physics), 11 July 2007, with the citation:
He was an Invited Speaker with talk Renormalization theory and group in mathematical physics at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1986 in Berkeley and a Plenary Speaker at the ICM in 1998 in Berlin.
On 2018 he was awarded with the Henri Poincaré Prize "for his outstanding contributions to equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum field theory, classical mechanics, and chaotic systems, including, in particular, the renormalization theory for interacting fermionic systems and the fluctuation relation for the large deviation functional of entropy production."

Selected publications