Andrew Majda

Andrew Joseph Majda (born January 30, 1949 in East Chicago , Indiana ) is an American applied mathematician who deals with partial differential equations.

Majda studied at Purdue University (bachelor's degree in 1970) and at Stanford University , where he made his master's degree in 1971 and received his doctorate in 1973 with Ralph Phillips . From 1973 to 1975 he was a post-doc and instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University . From 1976 he taught at UCLA (first assistant professor, from 1978 professor), was professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1978 and from 1984 to 1995 at Princeton University . From 1994 he was again as a professor at the Courant Institute, where he was instrumental in setting up a climate research center (Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science). There he is Samuel Morse Professor of Arts and Sciences .

Majda deals with partial differential equations and their application in a wide variety of areas, such as scattering theory, theory of shock waves , combustion processes, hydrodynamics, eddy motion and turbulence, climate models. In addition, he generally develops methods of data handling and prediction in complex, multi-scale problems. From 1986 he and Ronald DiPerna developed the concentration cancellation method for vortex initial value problems of the two-dimensional Euler's equation .

In 1990 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Kyoto ( The interaction of nonlinear analysis and modern applied mathematics ) and in 1983 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Warsaw ( Systems of conservation laws in several space variables ).

He holds honorary doctorates from Purdue University and Fudan University in Shanghai . In 2004 he received the Science Prize of the New York City Mayor and in 1982 and 2007 the Medal of the Collège de France . In 1992 he received the Prize for Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics from the National Academy of Sciences , of which he has been a member since 1994, and in 1990 he gave the John von Neumann Lecture at SIAM . In 1995 he was Gibbs Lecturer at the American Mathematical Society , of which he is a fellow. From 1977 to 1979 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . He is a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. For 2013 he was awarded the Norbert Wiener Prize . In 2010 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2016 he received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research from the American Mathematical Society, of which he is a fellow.

Fonts

with Andrea Bertozzi: Vortices and incompressible flow , Cambridge University Press, 2001
Compressible Fluid Flow and Systems of Conservation Laws in Several Space Variables , Springer 1984
Introduction to Partial Differential Equations and Waves for the Atmosphere and Ocean , Courant Lecture Notes, Vol. 9, American Mathematical Society, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2002
with R. Abramov, M. Grote: Information theory and stochastics for multiscale nonlinear systems , American Mathematical Society 2005
with X. Wang: Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Theories for Basic Geophysical Flows , Cambridge University Press, 2006

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SURNAME	Majda, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Majda, Andrew Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	East Chicago , Indiana