| Per Salberger |
| Matematik |
| salberg at chalmers dot se |
| +46 31 772 35 80 |
Per Salberger was appointed Professor of Mathematics in February 1, 2007.
He was born in Lund in 1957. He graduated from Göteborg University in 1976 and took his PhD in 1985. He thereafter held a postgraduate scholarship at Université de Paris-Sud in 1986-1987 and became assistant professor and “docent” at Stockholm University in 1988. After six months he returned to Paris for a permanent research position at the french research council (CNRS). During the period 1991-1997 he was on leave from CNRS and associate professor at ETH in Zürich. He is since 1997 back at Chalmers where he occupied a special research position during 1997-2003. He has been guest professor at leading research institutes like in Cambridge, Bonn och Berkeley and received a number of scientific prizes.
Summary of research
Per Salberger´s research in algebraic geometry and number theory is focused mainly on Diophantine equations. These have attracted the interest of the most famous mathematicians from Diophantus, Fermat, Euler and Gauss to Bombieri, Faltings and Wiles. To his most important papers counts an article in Inventiones mathematicae 1988 where he proves a conjecture on the arithmetic of rational surfaces. He has the last years collaborated with leading analytic number theorists to study the asymptotic behaviour of the number of integral solutions of Diopantine equations in boxes. His results within this field have received much attention and been published in the most respected mathematical journals.