Contact Information
308 Altgeld Hall, MC-382
1409 W. Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Lou van den Dries joined the department in 1986. He was an invited ICM speaker in 1990 and 2018, has been a “correspondent” of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences since 1993, and he has been a Professor in the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1998. Most recently, he presented the Tarski Lecture at the University of California at Berkeley in spring 2017.
Research Description
Model theory and its applications. Applications of logic to algebra.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, Center for Advanced Study
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Honors & Awards
Karp Prize, Association for Symbolic Logic, 2018
Shoenfield Prize, Association for Symbolic Logic, 2018
Corresponding member, Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences
Professor, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois
Recent Publications
Aschenbrenner, M., Dries, L. V. D., & Hoeven, J. V. D. (2022). On a differential intermediate value property. Revista de la Union Matematica Argentina, 64(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.33044/revuma.2892
Aschenbrenner, M., Van Den Dries, L., & Van Der Hoeven, J. (2022). Revisiting closed asymptotic couples. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 65(2), 530-555. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0013091522000219
Bhardwaj, N., & van den Dries, L. (2022). On the Pila–Wilkie theorem. Expositiones Mathematicae, 40(3), 495-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exmath.2022.03.001
van den Dries, L. (2022). Transseries, Model Theory, and Hardy Fields. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 69(4), 557-563. https://doi.org/10.1090/noti2459
Aschenbrenner, M., Van Den Dries, L., & Van Der Hoeven, J. (2019). The surreal numbers as a universal H-field. Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 21(4), 1179-1199. https://doi.org/10.4171/JEMS/858