Papanicolaou George

Professor

USA

California

Athens, 1943

Stanford University

Department of Mathematics


Education
Ph.D 1969, M.S 1967, Mathematics, New York University, Courant Institute, B.E.E 1965, Union
College, Schenectady N.Y.
Employment
New York University, Courant Institute: Assistant Professor, 1969-1973, Associate Professor, 1973-
1976, Professor, 1976-1993. Director, Division of Wave Propagation and Applied Mathematics,
Courant Institute 1979-1993. Professor, Stanford University, 1993-1997. Robert Grimmett Profes-
sor of Mathematics, 1997-present.
Visiting Member
INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, 12/74-2/75, and Observatoire de Nice France, 3/75. Also, INRIA,
Rocquencourt, France 9/76-1/77. Visiting Associate Professor: Cornell University (Spring term),
1976-77. Visiting Scientist: Exxon Research Corp. 10/83-1/84. Visiting Professor: Univ. of
Paris Dauphine 3/84. Visiting Member: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 9/90-5/92.
Gordon Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech 9/03-5/04. Institute for Advanced Study, Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology 11-12/08. W. Romberg Guest Professor Heidelberg
University, 07/10. Schlumberger Visiting Professor Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientiques, Paris,
10-11/10 and 10-11/13. Courant Institute, NYU, 03-05/18, Visiting Member.
Honors and Awards
Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1974-1976. John Simon Guggenheim Fellow 1983-1984. Invited speaker, In-
ternational Congress of Mathematicians, 1986. Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Athens,

  1. Invited speaker, International Congress of Mathematical Physics, 1994. Invited Plenary
    speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
    and Sciences, 2000. Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2000. Sackler distinguished
    1
    visitor, Tel Aviv University, 2000. Lighthill Lecture of British Mathematical Council, 2002. In-
    vited plenary speaker SIAM 50th anniversary meeting, 2002. Invited plenary speaker International
    Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2003. Invited plenary speaker, German Mathe-
    matical Union, 2004. SIAM von Neumann Prize 2006, SIAM Fellow, 2009. William Benter Prize in
    Applied Mathematics 2010. Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture of the American Mathematical Society
  2. Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Paris VII, 2011. Lagrange Prize (ICIAM), 2019.
    Publications
    Over 200 research publications with the more recent ones listed in
    http://virtualmath1.stanford.edu/papanico
    The research publications are in waves and diusion in inhomogeneous or random media and in the
    mathematical analysis of multi-scale phenomena that arise in their study. Applications come from
    electromagnetic wave propagation in the atmosphere, underwater sound, waves in the lithosphere,
    diusion in porous media, etc. Both linear and nonlinear waves and diusion are studied, in both
    direct and inverse problems, and in imaging in particular.
    Research publications are also in nancial mathematics, the use of asymptotics for stochastic dif-
    ferential equations in analyzing complex models of nancial markets and in data analysis, as well
    as the modeling and analysis of systemic eects in multi-agent systems and interacting markets.