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{{short description|Portuguese mathematician (born 1975)}}
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|name              = André Neves
|image             = Neves-andre-veblen.png
|birth_date        = 1975
|death_date        = 
|birth_place       = [[Place:Lisbon|Lisbon]], Portugal
|ethnicity         =
|fields            = Mathematics
|workplaces        = [[Organization:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]<br />[[Organization:Imperial College London|Imperial College London]]<br />[[Organization:Princeton University|Princeton University]]
|alma_mater        = [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]]<br />[[Organization:Instituto Superior Técnico|Instituto Superior Técnico]]
|doctoral_advisor  = [[Biography:Richard Schoen|Richard Schoen]]
|thesis_title      = Singularities for Lagrangian Mean Curvature Flow
|thesis_year       = 2005
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|known_for         = [[Willmore conjecture]]<br />Freedman–He–Wang conjecture<br />Min-Oo Conjecture<br />Works on geometric flows<br />Equidistribution of minimal hypersurfaces
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|awards            =  Leverhulme Prize (2012)<br />Whitehead Prize (2013)<br />Veblen Prize in Geometry (2016) New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (2015)<br />
|website= {{URL|http://math.uchicago.edu/~aneves/}}
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'''André da Silva Graça Arroja Neves''' (born 1975, [[Place:Lisbon|Lisbon]]) is a Portuguese mathematician and a professor at the [[Organization:University of Chicago|University of Chicago]]. He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2016. In 2012,  jointly with [[Biography:Fernando Codá Marques|Fernando Codá Marques]], he solved the [[Willmore conjecture]]. 

Neves received his Ph.D. in 2005 from  [[Organization:Stanford University|Stanford University]] under the direction of Richard Melvin Schoen.<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=99678}}</ref>

==Contributions==

Jointly with [[Biography:Hubert Bray|Hugh Bray]], he computed the [[Yamabe invariant]] of [[Real projective space|<math>\R \mathbb{P}^3</math>]]. In 2012, jointly with [[Biography:Fernando Codá Marques|Fernando Codá Marques]], he solved the [[Willmore conjecture]] ([[Biography:Thomas Willmore|Thomas Willmore]], 1965). In  the same year, jointly with [[Biography:Ian Agol|Ian Agol]] and Fernando Codá Marques, he solved the Freedman–He–Wang conjecture (Freedman–He–Wang, 1994). In 2017, jointly with Kei Irie and Fernando Codá Marques, he solved [[Yau's conjecture]] (formulated by [[Biography:Shing-Tung Yau|Shing-Tung Yau]] in 1982) in the [[Generic property|generic]] case.<ref>{{cite arXiv|last1=Irie|first1=Kei|last2=Marques|first2=Fernando Codá|last3=Neves|first3=André|author-link3=André Neves|eprint=1710.10752|title=Density of minimal hypersurfaces for generic metrics|class=math.DG|year=2017}}</ref>

==Honors and awards==

He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2012, the LMS Whitehead Prize<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/news/13/08/19/lms-prizes-2013-announced|title=News: LMS prizes for 2013 announced - EMS |website=www.euro-math-soc.eu}}</ref> in 2013, invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul in 2014, and  the [[Organization:Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award|Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/news/2015/10/wolfson-merit-awards/|title=Royal Society announces recipients of prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards|website=royalsociety.org}}</ref> in 2015.

In November 2015 he was awarded a New Horizons in Mathematics Prize<ref>{{cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/3/L164|title=Breakthrough Prize – Mathematics Laureates – André Arroja Neves|website=breakthroughprize.org}}</ref> in November 2015, "for outstanding contributions to several areas of [[Differential geometry|differential geometry]], including work on [[Scalar curvature|scalar curvature]], geometric flows, and his solution with Codá Marques of the 50-year-old [[Willmore conjecture|Willmore Conjecture]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://breakthroughprize.org/News/29|title=Breakthrough Prize – Breakthrough Prize Awarded $22 Million In Science Prizes |website=breakthroughprize.org}}</ref>

Jointly with [[Biography:Fernando Codá Marques|Fernando Codá Marques]] he was awarded the 2016 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=2866|title=American Mathematical Society|website=www.ams.org}}</ref>

In 2018 he received a Simons Investigator Award.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-and-physical-science/simons-investigators/simons-investigators-awardees |title= Simons Investigator Awardees |publisher= Simons Foundation |access-date= 2018-09-30 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170806190912/https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-and-physical-science/simons-investigators/simons-investigators-awardees/ |archive-date= 2017-08-06 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=AAAS Fellows Elected|url=https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202007/rnoti-p1051.pdf|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://math.uchicago.edu/~aneves/ André Neves's home page]

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