2026 Sylvia Serfaty: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	44	1622	1402	694	556	107	5781

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Sylvia Serfaty is affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on applied mathematics and statistical mechanics.

The scientist's work includes contributions to several subfields of study, including:

Applied Mathematics
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Mathematical Physics
Finance
Statistics and Probability

Key research topics covered in their publications involve:

Stochastic processes and financial applications
Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
Quantum chaos and dynamical systems

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques
Duke Mathematical Journal
The Annals of Applied Probability
Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques

Selected recent papers include:

"Mean field limit for Coulomb-type flows," 2020, Duke Mathematical Journal
"Global-in-time mean-field convergence for singular Riesz-type diffusive flows," 2023, The Annals of Applied Probability
"Gaussian fluctuations and free energy expansion for Coulomb gases at any temperature," 2023, Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques
"Sharp uniform-in-time mean-field convergence for singular periodic Riesz flows," 2023, Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré C Analyse Non Linéaire
"Thermal approximation of the equilibrium measure and obstacle problem," 2022, Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse Mathématiques

Frequent collaborators include Matthew Rosenzweig, Antonin Chodron de Courcel, Scott N. Armstrong, Carlos Román, and Étienne Sandier.

Sylvia Serfaty has been recognized with several awards, including:

Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2003
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2019
Member of the European Academy of Sciences, 2020

Best Publications

Vortices in the Magnetic Ginzburg-Landau Model

Etienne Sandier;Sylvia Serfaty

505
Citations
Gamma-convergence of gradient flows with applications to Ginzburg-Landau

Etienne Sandier;Sylvia Serfaty

358
Citations
Bogoliubov Spectrum of Interacting Bose Gases

Mathieu Lewin;Phan Thành Nam;Sylvia Serfaty;Sylvia Serfaty;Jan Philip Solovej

210
Citations
Gamma-convergence of gradient flows on Hilbert and metric spaces and applications

Sylvia Serfaty

194
Citations
From the Ginzburg-Landau Model to Vortex Lattice Problems

Etienne Sandier;Etienne Sandier;Sylvia Serfaty;Sylvia Serfaty

172
Citations
A deterministic‐control‐based approach motion by curvature

Robert V. Kohn;Sylvia Serfaty

158
Citations
LOCAL MINIMIZERS FOR THE GINZBURG–LANDAU ENERGY NEAR CRITICAL MAGNETIC FIELD: PART II

Sylvia Serfaty;Sylvia Serfaty

142
Citations
Higher Dimensional Coulomb Gases and Renormalized Energy Functionals

Nicolas Rougerie;Sylvia Serfaty

139
Citations
Large deviation principle for empirical fields of Log and Riesz gases

Thomas Leblé;Sylvia Serfaty;Sylvia Serfaty

139
Citations
2D Coulomb Gases and the Renormalized Energy

Etienne Sandier;Sylvia Serfaty

134
Citations
Coulomb Gases and Ginzburg - Landau Vortices

Sylvia Serfaty

131
Citations
Global minimizers for the Ginzburg–Landau functional below the first critical magnetic field

Etienne Sandier;Sylvia Serfaty;Sylvia Serfaty

124
Citations
Mean Field Limit for Coulomb-Type Flows.

Sylvia Serfaty

120
Citations
Mean Field Limit for Coulomb-Type Flows

Sylvia Serfaty;Sylvia Serfaty

118
Citations
A rigorous derivation of a free-boundary problem arising in superconductivity

Étienne Sandier;Sylvia Serfaty

114
Citations
ON THE ENERGY OF TYPE-II SUPERCONDUCTORS IN THE MIXED PHASE

Etienne Sandier;Sylvia Serfaty;Sylvia Serfaty

110
Citations
Next Order Asymptotics and Renormalized Energy for Riesz Interactions

Mircea Petrache;Sylvia Serfaty

110
Citations
Fluctuations of Two Dimensional Coulomb Gases

Thomas Leblé;Thomas Leblé;Sylvia Serfaty;Sylvia Serfaty

107
Citations
A deterministic-control-based approach to fully nonlinear parabolic and elliptic equations

Robert V. Kohn;Sylvia Serfaty

104
Citations
Gradient flow of the Chapman–Rubinstein–Schatzman model for signed vortices

Luigi Ambrosio;Edoardo Mainini;Sylvia Serfaty;Sylvia Serfaty

103
Citations
Limiting domain wall energy for a problem related to micromagnetics

Tristan Rivière;Sylvia Serfaty

101
Citations
Compactness, kinetic formulation, and entropies for a problem related to micromagnetics

Tristan Rivière;Sylvia Serfaty

99
Citations
A deterministic-control-based approach to motion by curvature (Viscosity Solution Theory of Differential Equations and its Developments)

Robert V. Kohn;Sylvia Serfaty

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert V. Kohn Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Ofer Zeitouni Weizmann Institute of Science

Sergio Conti University of Bonn

Felix Otto Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Cyrill B. Muratov University of Pisa

Juan Luis Vázquez Autonomous University of Madrid

Edward B. Saff Vanderbilt University

Haim Brezis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Tristan Rivière ETH Zurich

Luigi Ambrosio National Research Council (CNR)

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