George C. Papanicolaou (; born January 23, 1943) is a

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who specializes in applied and

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partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which imposes relations between the various partial derivatives of a multivariable function. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" to be solved for, similarly to h ...

s, and

stochastic process In probability theory and related fields, a stochastic () or random process is a mathematical object usually defined as a family of random variables. Stochastic processes are widely used as mathematical models of systems and phenomena that ap ...

es. He is currently the Robert Grimmett Professor in Mathematics at

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Biography

Papanicolaou was born on January 23, 1943, in

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. He received his B.E.E. from

Union College Union College is a private liberal arts college in Schenectady, New York. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, and second in the state of New York, after Columbia Co ...

and his

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and Ph.D. from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

(NYU) in 1969. His PhD thesis, performed under the supervision of Joseph Bishop Keller was entitled "On Stochastic Differential Equations and Applications". He became an assistant professor at NYU in 1969, an associate professor in 1973, and a professor in 1976. He later moved to Stanford in 1993.ftp://math.stanford.edu/pub/papers/papanicolaou/cv0.pdf He has had 42 doctoral students and 220 descendants. He is married, with three children.

Publications

Papanicolaou has more than 250 publications on a wide range of topics, including

imaging Imaging is the representation or reproduction of an object's form; especially a visual representation (i.e., the formation of an image). Imaging technology is the application of materials and methods to create, preserve, or duplicate images. ...

, communications and time reversal, waves in random media, convection-diffusion, nonlinear waves, high contrast materials,

mathematical finance Mathematical finance, also known as quantitative finance and financial mathematics, is a field of applied mathematics, concerned with mathematical modeling of financial markets. In general, there exist two separate branches of finance that require ...

, and

homogenization Homogeneity is a sameness of constituent structure. Homogeneity, homogeneous, or homogenization may also refer to: In mathematics *Transcendental law of homogeneity of Leibniz * Homogeneous space for a Lie group G, or more general transformatio ...

Recognition

George Papanicolaou is a member of the

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, and he is a Fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...

, the

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, meeting ...

(AMS), and the

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 soci ...

(SIAM). He was a plenary speaker at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rena ...

in 1998 and the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) in 2003. He was awarded a

Sloan Research 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. ...

(1974), a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the art ...

(1983), the von Neumann Lectureship from SIAM (2006), the William Benter Prize in Applied Mathematics (2010), the Gibbs Lectureship of the AMS (2011), and the Lagrange Prize from ICIAM (2019). He received an Honorary Doctor of Science,

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

in 1987 and a Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Paris VII in 2011.

Books

* "Asymptotic Analysis for Periodic Structures", Alain Bensoussan,

Jacques-Louis Lions Jacques-Louis Lions (; 3 May 1928 – 17 May 2001) was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John von Neumann Lecture ...

and George Papanicolaou, North Holland (1978), Reprinted by the American Mathematical Society (2011). * "Derivatives in Financial Markets with Stochastic Volatility", Jean-Pierre Fouque, George Papanicolaou and K. Ronnie Sircar, Cambridge University Press (2000). *"Wave Propagation and Time Reversal in Randomly Layered Media", Jean-Pierre Fouque, Josselin Garnier, George Papanicolaou and Knut Solna, Springer (2007). *"Multiscale Stochastic Volatility for Equity, Interest-Rate and Credit Derivatives", Jean-Pierre Fouque, George Papanicolaou , K. Ronnie Sircar and Knut Solna, Cambridge University Press (2011). * "Passive Imaging with Ambient Noise", Josselin Garnier and George Papanicolaou, Cambridge University Press (2016).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Papanicolaou, George 1943 births Living people Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Sloan Research Fellows Stanford University Department of Mathematics faculty Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni PDE theorists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Mathematical Society New York University faculty