George Papanicolaou (mathematician)
George C. Papanicolaou (born January 23, 1943 in Athens ) is a Greek-American applied mathematician.
Life
Papanicolaou studied at Union College in Schenectady (bachelor's degrees) and at New York University , where he received his master's degree in 1967 and his doctorate in 1969 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University . He was then assistant professor there, associate professor from 1973 and professor from 1976. At the same time he was director of the department for wave propagation and applied mathematics. From 1993 he was a professor at Stanford University , since 1997 as Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics. He was visiting scholar at Exxon , the INRIA in Rocquencourt, at Caltech (2003/2004), at the Institute for Advanced Study (1990, 1992), at the University of Paris Dauphine and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Hong Kong.
Papanicolaou dealt with wave propagation in inhomogeneous and disordered media, for example in geophysics (e.g. transport and wave propagation in porous media such as problems of oil prospecting and extraction), the propagation of sound under water and of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere (including wireless Communication networks), tomography. In addition to the direct problem of wave propagation and diffusion, he also investigated the inverse problem. He also dealt with nonlinear waves such as the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and turbulence (turbulent diffusion). He also deals with financial mathematics and stochastics (stochastic differential equations, partly in collaboration with Daniel Stroock , Harry Kesten and SRS Varadhan ).
He was a Sloan Research Fellow (1974/1975) and Guggenheim Fellow (1983/1984). He is an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens (1987). In 1986 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Berkeley ( Wave propagation and heat production in random media ) and in 1998 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Berlin ( Mathematical problems in geophysical wave propagation ). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences (2000). He is a fellow of the SIAM and received the von Neumann Prize in 2006 . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
Papanicolaou is a US citizen. He is married and has three children.
Fonts
- with Ludwig Arnold, Volker Wihstutz: Asymptotic analysis of the Lyapunov exponent and rotation number of the random oscillator and applications. University of Bremen, 1985.
- (Ed.): Random media. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-540-96524-6 .
- (Ed.): Hydrodynamic behavior and interacting particle systems. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-540-96584-X .
- (Ed.): Wave propagation in complex media. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1998, ISBN 0-387-98309-0 .
- with Steffen Heinze, A. Stevens: Variational principles for propagation speeds in inhomogeneous media. Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences Leipzig, 1999.
Web links
- Literature by and about George Papanicolaou in the catalog of the German National Library
- George Papanicolaou's website
Individual evidence
- ^ Book of Members. (PDF) Retrieved July 23, 2016 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Papanicolaou, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Papanicolaou, George C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |