George C. Papanicolaou | |
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 Papanicolaou in 1976 | |
| Born | (1943-01-23)23 January 1943 (age 82) Athens, Greece |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Stanford university |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Keller |
| Doctoral students | |
George C. Papanicolaou (/ˌpæpəˈnɪkəlaʊ/; born January 23, 1943) is a Greek-Americanmathematician who specializes inapplied andcomputational mathematics,partial differential equations, andstochastic processes.[1] He is currently the Robert Grimmett Professor in Mathematics atStanford University.
Papanicolaou was born on January 23, 1943, inAthens,Greece. He received hisB.E.E. fromUnion College and hisM.S. andPh.D. fromNew York University (NYU) in 1969. His PhD thesis, performed under the supervision ofJoseph 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]
Papanicolaou has more than 250 publications[5][6] on a wide range of topics, includingimaging, communications andtime reversal, waves in random media, convection-diffusion, nonlinear waves, high contrast materials,mathematical finance, andhomogenization.
George Papanicolaou is a member of theNational Academy of Sciences,[7] and he is a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences,[8] theAmerican Mathematical Society (AMS), and theSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He was a plenary speaker at theInternational Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 and theInternational Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in 2003. He was awarded aSloan Research Fellowship (1974), aGuggenheim Fellowship (1983), thevon Neumann Lectureship from SIAM (2006), the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics[9] (2010), theGibbs 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.
