Prof. Marcelo Disconzi was awarded a Chancellor‘s Research Award at the 2025 Fall Faculty Assembly. This is one of the highest honors that the University can bestow for research. From the A&S communications:

Marcelo Disconzi, associate professor of mathematics, was nominated for his work presented in “First-Order General-Relativistic Viscous Fluid Dynamics,” published in the journal Physical Review X. The work provides a solution to a problem in physics and mathematics that has been unsolved for nearly a century: It formulates a theory of viscous fluid dynamics that is compatible with Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The resulting framework is now known as the BDNK theory—named after its developers, Bemfica, Disconzi, Noronha and Kovtun. BDNK theory is a more rigorous, mathematically proven framework for studying relativistic viscous fluids and addresses inconsistencies that were problematic in earlier models.

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