George C. Papanicolaou
George C. Papanicolaou (/ˌpæpəˈnɪkəlaʊ/; born January 23, 1943) is a Greek-American mathematician who specializes in applied and computational mathematics, partial differential equations, and stochastic processes.[1] He is currently the Robert Grimmett Professor in Mathematics at Stanford University.
George C. Papanicolaou | |
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 Papanicolaou in 1976 | |
| Born | 23 January 1943 Athens, Greece |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Stanford university |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Keller |
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Biography
editPapanicolaou was born on January 23, 1943, in Athens, Greece. He received his B.E.E. from Union College and his M.S. and Ph.D. from New York University (NYU) in 1969. His PhD thesis, performed under the supervision of Joseph Bishop Keller was entitled "On Stochastic Differential Equations and Applications".[2] At NYU, he started out as an assistant professor in 1969 before moving up to associate professor in 1973 and finally professor in 1976. Later, in 1993, he relocated to Stanford.[3]
He has had 42 doctoral students[4] and 220 descendants. He is married, with three children.[3]
Publications
editPapanicolaou has more than 250 publications[5][6] on a wide range of topics, including imaging, communications and time reversal, waves in random media, convection-diffusion, nonlinear waves, high contrast materials, mathematical finance, and homogenization.
Recognition
editGeorge Papanicolaou is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,[7] and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[8] the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 and the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in 2003. He was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship (1974), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983), the von Neumann Lectureship from SIAM (2006), the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics[9] (2010), the Gibbs Lectureship of the AMS (2011), and the Lagrange Prize[10] from ICIAM (2019). He received an Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Athens in 1987 and a Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Paris VII in 2011.
Books
edit- "Asymptotic Analysis for Periodic Structures", Alain Bensoussan, Jacques-Louis Lions and George Papanicolaou, North Holland (1978), Reprinted by the American Mathematical Society (2011).
- "Derivatives in Financial Markets with Stochastic Volatility", Jean-Pierre Fouque, George Papanicolaou and K. Ronnie Sircar, Cambridge University Press (2000).
- "Wave Propagation and Time Reversal in Randomly Layered Media", Jean-Pierre Fouque, Josselin Garnier, George Papanicolaou and Knut Solna, Springer (2007).
- "Multiscale Stochastic Volatility for Equity, Interest-Rate and Credit Derivatives", Jean-Pierre Fouque, George Papanicolaou, K. Ronnie Sircar and Knut Solna, Cambridge University Press (2011).
- "Passive Imaging with Ambient Noise", Josselin Garnier and George Papanicolaou, Cambridge University Press (2016).
Notes
edit- ^ "Department of Mathematics - Stanford University". Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ^ "MathTree - George Papanicolaou". academictree.org. Archived from the original on 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
- ^ a b "Curriculum vitae". July 22, 2013. Retrieved 2024-04-19.
- ^ "George Papanicolaou - the Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ "Publications". math.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-10-12. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ "Publications of George Papanicolaou" (PDF). math.stanford.edu. February 24, 2011. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
- ^ "Member Search".
- ^ "Member Directory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
- ^ Cheng, Karen. "The 2010 William Benter Prizes in Applied Mathematics". CityU. Archived from the original on 2020-01-17. Retrieved September 9, 2022.
- ^ "ICIAM Lagrange Prize winners". ICIAM. Archived from the original on 2021-10-19.