Athanassios S. Fokas

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Athanassios Spyridon Fokas ( Greek Αθανάσιος Σπυρίδων Φωκάς , born June 30, 1952 in Kefalonia ) is a Greek mathematician who deals with nonlinear partial differential equations.

Fokas studied aeronautics at Imperial College with a bachelor's degree in 1975 and received his doctorate in 1979 at Caltech with Paco Lagerstrom ( Invariants, Lie-Backlund Operators and Backlund Transformations ). He then studied medicine at the University of Miami with an M.D. degree in 1986. In the same year he became Professor of Mathematics and Head of the Mathematics Faculty at Clarkson University . In 1996 he went to Imperial College as Professor of Applied Mathematics and in 2002 he became Professor of Nonlinear Mathematics at Cambridge University , a newly established chair at the time. In 2005 he became a Fellow of Clare Hall College.

He deals with integrable nonlinear partial differential equations (such as the KdV equation and the nonlinear Schrödinger equation) and solitons, boundary value problems of two-dimensional linear partial differential equations, applications of inverse problems in medicine (especially in the brain), protein folding (where he collaborated with Israel Gelfand ) and hydrodynamics. A special soliton equation is named after him, Desgasperos and Francesco Calogero .

In 2004 he became a member of the Athens Academy of Sciences (as the youngest member at the time and first applied mathematician) and in 2004 received its Aristeion Prize. In 2000 he received the Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society . In 2009 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He holds honorary doctorates from the Technical University of Crete , the Technical University of Athens , the University of Patras (all awarded in 2004) and the University of Athens (2006). He is the commander of the Greek Order of the Phoenix .

He is co-editor of the Journal of Nonlinear Science.

He is married and has three children.

Fonts

  • with Mark J. Ablowitz : Complex Variables: Introduction and Applications , Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2003
  • with AR Its, AA Kapaev, V. Yu. Novokshenov: Painlevé Transcendents: A Riemann-Hilbert Approach , AMS 2006
  • A Unified Approach to Boundary Value Problems , CBMS-SIAM, 2008
  • Editor with VE Zakharov Important Developments in Soliton Theory , Springer-Verlag, 1993
  • Editor with DJ Kaup, Alan C. Newell , VE Zakharov Nonlinear Processes in Physics , Springer-Verlag 1993
  • Editor with Israel Gelfand Algebraic Aspects of Integrable Equations , Birkhäuser 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project


personal data
SURNAME Fokas, Athanassios S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fokas, Athanassios Spyridon; Φωκάς, Αθανάσιος Σπυρίδων (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Kefalonia