Friday, May 22, 2009
3:00 PM -
4:00 PM
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Applied Physics Seminar & GALCIT Colloquium
Series: Applied Physics Seminar Series
The Many Faces of 'Discreteness': From Acoustic Crystals and Layered Optical Media to Multi-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates and Beyond
Panayotis Kevrekidis,
associate professor of mathematics,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Speaker's Bio:
After earning a B.S. (Physics) from the University of Athens in 1996 and an M.S. (1998), M.Phil and Ph.D. (Physics) in 2000 from Rutgers University, as well as spending a post-doctoral year between Princeton University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Professor Kevrekidis joined UMass, Amherst as an Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Statistics in 2001. In 2005, he was awarded tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor. He has published more than 250 research papers and delivered more than 80 invited talks in conferences and seminars around the world. Professor Kevrekidis has received, among others, a CAREER award in Applied Mathematics from the U.S. National Science Foundation, a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and an Outstanding Paper Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
After earning a B.S. (Physics) from the University of Athens in 1996 and an M.S. (1998), M.Phil and Ph.D. (Physics) in 2000 from Rutgers University, as well as spending a post-doctoral year between Princeton University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Professor Kevrekidis joined UMass, Amherst as an Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Statistics in 2001. In 2005, he was awarded tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor. He has published more than 250 research papers and delivered more than 80 invited talks in conferences and seminars around the world. Professor Kevrekidis has received, among others, a CAREER award in Applied Mathematics from the U.S. National Science Foundation, a Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and an Outstanding Paper Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
"The Many Faces of 'Discreteness': From Acoustic Crystals and Layered Optical Media to Multi-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates and Beyond," Panayotis Kevrekidis, associate professor of mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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