Andrew Majda

Andrew Joseph Majda ( born January 30, 1949 in East Chicago, Indiana) is an American applied mathematician who deals with partial differential equations.

Majda studied at Purdue University ( BA 1970) and at Stanford University, where, in 1971 his master's degree and did his PhD at Ralph Phillips 1973. 1973-1975 he was a post-doc and Instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. From 1976 he taught at UCLA (first assistant professor, in 1978 professor ), was from 1978 professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1984 to 1995 at Princeton University. In 1994 he was again a professor at the Courant Institute, where he was instrumental in the establishment of a climate research center ( Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science). He is there Samuel Morse Professor of Arts and Sciences.

Majda deals with partial differential equations and their applications in diverse fields, such as scattering theory, theory of shock waves, combustion processes, hydrodynamics, vortex motion and turbulence, climate models. He also developed general methods for data treatment and prediction in complex vielskaligen problems. In 1986 he developed with Ronald DiPerna the Concentration -cancellation method for vortex initial value problems of the two-dimensional Euler equation.

In 1990 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Kyoto (The interaction of nonlinear analysis and modern applied mathematics ) and in 1983 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Warsaw ( system of conservation laws in several space variables).

He holds honorary doctorates from Purdue University and Fudan University in Shanghai. In 2004 he received the Science Award of the New York Mayor and 1982 and 2007, the Medal of the College de France. In 1992 he received the award for Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences, which he is a member since 1994, and 1990, the John von Neumann Award of the SIAM. In 1995 he was Gibbs Lecturer of the American Mathematical Society, whose fellow he is. 1977 to 1979 he was a Sloan Fellow. He is a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. For 2013, the Norbert Wiener Prize was awarded.

Writings

  • Compressible Fluid Flow and Systems of Conservation Laws in Several Space Variables, Springer 1984
  • Introduction to Partial Differential Equations and Waves for the Atmosphere and Ocean, Courant Lecture Notes, vol 9, American Mathematical Society, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2002
  • With R. Abramov, M. Grote: Information theory and stochastics for multiscale nonlinear systems, American Mathematical Society 2005
  • X. Wang: Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Theories for Basic Geophysical Flows, Cambridge University Press, 2006
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