Constantine Dafermos

Michael Constantine Dafermos, called Costas, ( born May 26, 1941 in Athens ) is a Greek- American mathematician and engineer scientist who deals with partial differential equations of continuum mechanics.

Dafermos studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens with a diploma degree in 1964 and 1967 at Jerald L. Ericksen at Johns Hopkins University in mechanics doctorate ( On the existence and the asymptotic stability of solutions to the equations of linear thermoelasticity ). He was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University and in 1971 Associate Professor and in 1975 Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University in 1968. 1988-1993 and 2006/ 07 he was director of the Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems. He's Alumni Alumnae Professor at Brown University.

More recently, he dealt with the spontaneous formation of shock waves in nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws and the interplay of thermodynamics and Analysis in these systems, especially the stabilizing role of entropy.

In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He holds honorary doctorates from the National Technical University of Athens, the Athens University and the University of Crete. From 2004, he had an honorary professorship at the Academia Sinica. Since 1988 he is a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens, nonresident since 2011 member of the Accademia dei Lincei, the Cataldo e Angiola Agostinelli price he received in 2011, and since 2001 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1975 to 1977 he was treasurer of the Society of Natural Philosophy.

From 1995 he was on the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute.

He has U.S. citizenship.

Writings

  • Hyperbolic Conservation Laws in Continuum Physics, 3rd Edition, Springer Verlag 2010
  • Publisher Eduard Feireisl Handbook of Differential Equations, Elsevier / North Holland 2004
  • Publisher with JL Bona Dynamical Problems in Continuum Physics, Springer 1987
  • Publisher with Milan Pokorny Evolutionary Equations, North Holland / Elsevier 2009
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