Terence Chi-Shen Tao is an Australian and American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA),where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences. His research includes topics in harmonic analysis,partial differential equations,algebraic combinatorics,arithmetic combinatorics,geometric combinatorics,probability theory,compressed sensing and analytic number theory.
Feng Kang was a Chinese mathematician. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. After his death,the Chinese Academy of Sciences established the Feng Kang Prize in 1994 to reward young Chinese researchers who made outstanding contributions to computational mathematics.
Cathleen Synge Morawetz was a Canadian mathematician who spent much of her career in the United States. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential equations governing fluid flow,particularly those of mixed type occurring in transonic flow. She was professor emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the New York University,where she had also served as director from 1984 to 1988. She was president of the American Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1996. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1998.
Sal Restivo is a sociologist/anthropologist.
William Gilbert Strang is an American mathematician known for his contributions to finite element theory,the calculus of variations,wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education,including publishing mathematics textbooks. Strang was the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught Linear Algebra,Computational Science,and Engineering,Learning from Data,and his lectures are freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.
Lloyd Nicholas Trefethen is an American mathematician,professor of numerical analysis and until 2023 head of the Numerical Analysis Group at the Mathematical Institute,University of Oxford.
Don Millard is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prior to joining NSF,he was a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the originator of the Mobile Studio Project. In 1999 he started thinking about a way to enable students to perform experiments anytime,anyplace—specifically those that use an oscilloscope,function generator,digital control,and some form of power supply. He started the Mobile Studio project by looking at commercially available solutions,which were prohibitively expensive;while choosing to involve students in bringing the project's vision to reality. Jason Coutermarsh,then a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI),joined the project in the summer of 2004 and they developed a complete functional input/output board (IOBoard) hardware/software prototype. With the support of several technology companies and the National Science Foundation,the Mobile Studio Project is now being utilized to enhance science,math,engineering and technology education around the world.
Robert Leamon Bryant is an American mathematician. He works at Duke University and specializes in differential geometry.
Burton Wendroff is an American applied mathematician known for his contributions to the development of numerical methods for the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations. The Lax–Wendroff method for the solution of hyperbolic PDE is named for Wendroff.
Andrew Knyazev is an American mathematician. He graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University under the supervision of Evgenii Georgievich D'yakonov in 1981 and obtained his PhD in Numerical Mathematics at the Russian Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lebedev in 1985. He worked at the Kurchatov Institute between 1981–1983,and then to 1992 at the Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences,headed by Gury Marchuk.
Lee Aaron Segel was an American applied mathematician primarily at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is particularly known for his work in the spontaneous appearance of order in convection,slime molds and chemotaxis.
Robert Edmund O'Malley Jr. is an American mathematician.
Robert Murdoch Anderson is Professor of Economics and of Mathematics at the University of California,Berkeley. He is director of the Center for Risk Management Research,University of California,Berkeley and he was chair of the University of California Academic Senate 2011–12. He is also the co-director for the Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk at UC Berkeley.
Barbara Lee Keyfitz is a Canadian-American mathematician,the Dr. Charles Saltzer Professor of Mathematics at Ohio State University. In her research,she studies nonlinear partial differential equations and associated conservation laws.
Susanne Cecelia Brenner is an American mathematician,whose research concerns the finite element method and related techniques for the numerical solution of differential equations. She is a Boyd Professor at Louisiana State University. Previously,she held the Nicholson Professorship of Mathematics and the Michael F. and Roberta Nesbit McDonald Professorship at Louisiana State University,She currently chairs the editorial committee of the journal Mathematics of Computation. During 2021-2022 she is serving as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
A fluxion is the instantaneous rate of change,or gradient,of a fluent at a given point. Fluxions were introduced by Isaac Newton to describe his form of a time derivative. Newton introduced the concept in 1665 and detailed them in his mathematical treatise,Method of Fluxions. Fluxions and fluents made up Newton's early calculus.
Leonid Berlyand is a Soviet and American mathematician,a professor of Penn State University. He is known for his works on homogenization,Ginzburg–Landau theory,mathematical modeling of active matter and mathematical foundations of deep learning.
Talitha Washington is an American mathematician and academic who specializes in applied mathematics and STEM education policy. She was recognized by Mathematically Gifted &Black as a Black History Month 2018 Honoree. Washington became the 26th president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2023.
Roselyn Elaine Williams is an American mathematician who is an Associate Professor and former chair of the mathematics department at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Her decades long involvement in the National Association of Mathematicians includes a 14 year term as secretary-treasurer.
Michael Anthony "Mike" Hill is an American mathematician known for his research in topology. He is a professor at the University of Minnesota. Together with Michael J. Hopkins and Douglas Ravenel,he received the American Mathematical Society's Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry in 2022 for the paper "On the nonexistence of elements of Kervaire invariant one."
