Mark Jay Ablowitz (born June 5, 1945,

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) is a

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in the department of

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at the

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. He was born in

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Education

Ablowitz received his

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degree in

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

from

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...

, and completed his

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under the supervision of

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1971.

Career and research

Ablowitz was an assistant professor of Mathematics at

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during 1971–1975 and an associate professor during 1975–1976. He visited the Program in Applied Mathematics founded by

Ahmed Cemal Eringen Ahmet Cemal Eringen (February 15, 1921 – December 7, 2009) was a Turkish engineering scientist. He was a professor at Princeton University and the founder of the Society of Engineering Science.

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during 1977–1978. He was a professor of Mathematics at Clarkson during 1976-1985 where he became the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in 1979. On July 1, 1985, he was appointed as the Dean of Science of Clarkson University and served there until he joined to the department of

(APPM) at

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on June 30, 1989.

Awards and honors

Sloan Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

, 1975–1977. * Clarkson Graham Research Award, 1976. *

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Fellowship, 1984. *

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Fellow, 2011. *

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Symposium on Soliton Theory Kiev, USSR 1979. *Fellow of the

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, 2012.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2012-11-03.

Publications

*''

Solitons In mathematics and physics, a soliton or solitary wave is a self-reinforcing wave packet that maintains its shape while it propagates at a constant velocity. Solitons are caused by a cancellation of nonlinear and dispersive effects in the mediu ...

and the

Inverse Scattering In mathematics and physics, the inverse scattering problem is the problem of determining characteristics of an object, based on data of how it scatters incoming radiation or particles. It is the inverse problem to the direct scattering problem, wh ...

Transform'', M.J. Ablowitz and H. Segur, (SIAM Studies in Applied Mathematics) 1981 *''Topics in Soliton Theory and Exactly Solvable Nonlinear Equations'', Eds. M.J. Ablowitz, B. Fuchssteiner and M. D. Kruskal, (

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) 1987 *''Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering'', M.J. Ablowitz and P.A. Clarkson, (

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Lecture Notes Series, 516 pages, (

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, Cambridge, UK, 1991) *''Complex Variables: Introduction and Applications'', Mark J. Ablowitz and A. S. Fokas, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1997) *''Nonlinear Physics: Theory and Experiment. II'', M.J. Ablowitz, M. Boiti, F. Pempinelli and B. Prinari, (World Scientific 2003) *''Discrete and Continuous Nonlinear Schrödinger Systems'', Mark J. Ablowitz, B. Prinari and D. Trubatch, 258 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004) *''Nonlinear Dispersive Waves: Asymptotic Analysis and Solitons'', Mark J. Ablowitz, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ablowitz, Mark J. Living people University of Rochester alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Clarkson University faculty University of Colorado Boulder faculty 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 1945 births Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics