Alan C. Newell

Alan C. Newell ( born November 5, 1941 in Dublin) is an Irish mathematician and physicist. It deals with nonlinear wave equations and solitons.

Newell went to Trinity College in Dublin ( with undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics in 1962 and the Gold Medal in mathematics) and in 1966 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology David John Benney doctorate (transfer of spectral energy in nonlinear dispersion system ). He was 1971-1979 Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department at Clarkson University. Later he was at the University of Arizona, where he was from 1981 to 1985 the Department of Applied Mathematics and ran from 1985 to 1996, the mathematics faculty. 1996 to 2000 he headed the mathematics faculty of the University of Warwick. He then returned to the University of Arizona, where he was professor from 2004 Regents.

Newell examined nonlinear phenomena in waves ( solitons ) in hydrodynamics, with wave turbulence in optics and lasers, plasma physics and other fields.

In 2004 he was John von Neumann Lecturer. 1976/77 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1970 he held the Kac Memorial Lectures in Los Alamos. 1988/89 he was a U.S. Senior Scientist Humboldt Fellow. He was editor and co-founder of Physica D. He is since 1990 Co-Director of the International Institute for Nonlinear Science.

In addition to the Irish he has U.S. citizenship.

Writings

• Solitons in mathematics and physics, SIAM, 1985 ( translated into Russian )
• Nonlinear wave motion, American Mathematical Society 1974
• With Jerome V. Moloney Nonlinear Optics, Addison -Wesley 1992