Martin Aaron Golubitsky is an American Distinguished

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and the former director of the

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Biography

Education

Marty Golubitsky was born on April 5, 1945 in

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. He graduated with bachelor's degree in 1966 from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

and the same year got his master's there as well. He obtained his Ph.D. from

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 1970 where his advisor was

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Career

Full-time

From September 1974 to December 1976 he was an assistant professor at the

Queens College Queens College (QC) is a public college in the Queens borough of New York City. It is part of the City University of New York system. Its 80-acre campus is primarily located in Flushing, Queens. It has a student body representing more than 170 ...

and from January of next year to August 1979 served as an associate professor there. Starting from the same month of 1979 he relocated himself to the

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

where he became a professor and served there till August 1983. In September of the same year he held the same position at the

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a Public university, public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the List of universities in Texas by enrollment, university in Texas ...

where he remained till November 2008. From then until 2016 he served as the director of the

where he retains a distinguished professorship in mathematics. He affiliates himself with such organizations as the

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American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

and

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific socie ...

. He served as the President of the

(SIAM) 2005–2006. In 2012 he became an inaugural fellow of the

. and in 2009 a SIAM Fellow.SIAM Fellows
Retrieved May 22, 2014.

Visiting

From January 1980 to June of the same year he worked at

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as a visiting professor and then from September to December of the next year worked at the

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. Following that he worked at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, with the same position which lasted him for two months in summer of 1982 and then from January to June 1989 he worked at the

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, a division of the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. He continued to hold that position even four years later when from January to June 1993 he was working at the division of

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called

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. From August to November 2005 he worked at both Newton Institute and

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and then from January to June 2006 worked at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

as a distinguished professor. As of July 2005 he works as an adjunct professor at the

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division of

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

Publications

In 1992, he and Ian Stewart wrote a book called ''Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?'' which was published by

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. In 1994 it was translated into Dutch by Hans van Cuijlenborg where it came out under a title of ''Turings tijger'' by Epsilon Uitgaven in

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. In 1995 the same work was translated into

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by Libero Sosio as ''Terribili simmetrie: Dio è un geometra?'' and was published in

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. His second book, on which he worked with M. Field called ''Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art, and Nature'' was released by

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, in 1992 and was followed by German translation by Micha Lotrovsky in 1993 and the French one the same year by Christian Jeanmougin which was published by Inter´Editions in

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. Besides books he also has numerous

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ed articles and even was a co-editor of the ''Multiparameter Bifurcation Theory, Contemporary Mathematics'' which was published by

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in 1986.

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