Gonzalo Cao Labora

Nationality: EU (Spanish)

EPFL SB MATH AMCV
MA B2 455 (Bâtiment MA)
Station 8
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

I am interested in Partial Differential Equations (PDE), with a significant part of my work focusing on the application of computer-assisted techniques. I have worked in Analysis of Fluids, Dispersive PDE and Elliptic Overdetermined Problems, using computer assistance to prove existence of certain solutions or their stability properties. In particular, I have devoted an important part of my work to study existence and stability of self-similar solutions, which are classical candidates for singularity formation mechanisms, but very little is known about them in a lot of relevant PDE. 

Selected publications

Instability of two-dimensional Taylor-Green vortices

Gonzalo Cao Labora, Maria Colombo, Michele Dolce, Paolo Ventura
Published in arXiv in 2026

A contractible Schiffer counterexample on the half-sphere

Cao-Labora, Fernández
Published in arXiv preprint in 2025

Discovery of Unstable Singularities

Wang et al.
Published in arxiv preprint in 2025

Non-implosion for compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes in T^3 and R^3

Cao-Labora, Gomez-Serrano, Shi, Staffilani
Published in Cambridge Journal of Mathematics in 2025

Smooth imploding solutions for 3D compressible fluids

Buckmaster, Cao-Labora, Gomez-Serrano
Published in Forum of Mathematics Pi in 2025

Teaching & PhD

Courses

Introduction to partial differential equations

MATH-305

This is an introductory course on Elliptic Partial Differential Equations. The course will cover the theory of both classical and generalized (weak) solutions of elliptic PDEs.