Susan Friedlander

Susan Friedlander, Oberwolfach 2012

Susan Jean Friedlander (* 26. January 1946 in London as Susan Poete ) is an American mathematician , dealing with partial differential equations of hydrodynamics tackles ( Euler equation , Navier-Stokes equation ).

Life

Friedlander graduated from the University of London with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 (during which time she was a Kennedy Memorial Fellow). She received her PhD in 1972 from Princeton University with Louis Norberg Howard ( Spin down in a rotating stratified fluid ). As a post-graduate student , she was at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and 1974-75 Instructor at Princeton and at the same time adviser to the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA . She was then an assistant professor and later an associate professor at the University of Chicago and, since 1989, professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Since 2008 she has been director of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southern California .

In 1977/78 she was visiting professor at Oxford, 1986 at the ETH Zurich and 1982/83 at the University of Paris. In 1999 she was at MSRI and the Institute for Advanced Study and in 1998 at IHES . In 1980 she was at the Mathematical Research Center at the University of Wisconsin and in 1981 at the University of Berkeley. She was also at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics , the Institut Henri Poincaré , the Center de Recherches Mathématiques , the Fields Institute , the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg University and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research .

In 1998 she received the medal of the Henri Poincaré Institute . She is editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society and an external member of the Moscow Mathematical Society . From 1983 she was on the extended council of the AMS and she was its associate secretary. She is a Fellow of the AMS, the SIAM and, since 2012, the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

She is a US citizen. She has been married to the mathematician Eric Friedlander since 1968 .

Natasa Pavlovic is one of her doctoral students .

An introduction to the mathematical theory of geophysical fluid dynamics, North Holland 1980
Editor with Denis Serre : Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, 2 volumes, Elsevier 2002
with Marco Cannone: Navier: Blow-Up and Collapse, Notices AMS, Volume 50, 2003, No. 1, Online
with Victor Yudovich: Instabilities in Fluid Motion, Notices AMS, Volume 46, 1999, No. 11, Online

personal data
SURNAME	Friedlander, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Friedlander, Susan Jean (full name); Poete, Susan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	London