Stephan Ramon Garcia

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Stephan Ramon Garcia is a W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor [1] and Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College, in California, United States. Stephan Garcia has been a faculty member at Pomona College since 2006. Since then, Professor Garcia has contributed substantially to both the field of Mathematics as well as the next generation of aspiring mathematicians. He is the author of over 80 research articles (now over 100 according to the American Mathematical Society), many with undergraduate co-authors, and four books. Garcia works in operator theory, complex variables, matrix analysis, number theory, and discrete geometry. He serves on the editorial board of several well-known journals and has received four National Science Foundation grants as principal investigator. [2]

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Early life and education

Garcia earned his Bachelor's of Arts with high distinction from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 and received his PhD in Mathematics in 2003 from the University of California at Berkeley. [3] Professor Garcia joined Pomona College in 2006, where he currently works.

Personal life

Garcia is married to Gizem Karaali. They have two children, Reyhan and Altay.

Published works

In addition to his 89 research articles, over the course of his academic career, Stephan Ramon Garcia has published four books as well. His first book, titled Introduction to Model Spaces and Their Operators [4] was written in collaboration with Javed Mashreghi and William Ross and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. In 2017, Stephan Garcia had his second book published in collaboration with Robert Horn titled A Second Course in Linear Algebra [4] by Cambridge University Press. Stephan Garcia's third book, Finite Blaschke Products and Their Connections [4] was written in collaboration with Javad Mashreghi and William Ross and was subsequently published by Springer in 2018. Professor Garcia's most recent book entitled 100 Years of Math Milestones: The Pi Mu Epsilon Centennial Collection [4] was written with Steven J. Miller and was published by the American Mathematical Society in July 2019.

Awards

Throughout his academic career, Stephan Ramon Garcia has received a plethora of awards. Stephan Garcia's first award with Pomona college was the Wig Distinguished Professor Award [5] which was awarded to him in May of 2009.However, even before that, Stephan Garcia displayed the qualities of an excellent professor dating back to graduate school. In 1999, Garcia was given the title of Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor at the University of California at Berkeley. [5] In 2003, Garcia was awarded the Nikki Kose Memorial Teaching Prize. [5] In 2005, Garcia was awarded the Mochizuki Memorial Fund Award by the University of California at Santa Barbara. [5] After joining the staff at Pomona College, Garcia was nominated for CASE Professor of the Year in 2011 and 2012. [5] Most recently, Stephen Garcia was the first professor to receive the 2019 Mary P. Dolciani Award for Excellence in Research. [6] [7]

Grants and research distinctions

Stephen Ramon Garcia was chosen as the first recipient of the Mary P. Dolciani Excellence in Research for his extensive research history. Aside from publishing 89 research papers, Professor Garcia has taken an involved approach when helping his students succeed. He has helped co-author 29 research articles by his students. In fact, some of his students have won awards under his supervision. For example, in 2011, one of Professor Garcia's students named Daniel Poore earned the John Stauffer Scholarship for Academic Merit, Pomona College's highest undergraduate research honor. [5] Another student, Alice Chan, who coauthored an article with Professor Garcia, earned a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2014. [5] Garcia has also received four National Science Foundation grants in the areas of complex symmetric operators and function theory (2006-10); Complex symmetric operators - theory and applications (2010–2014); Operators on Hilbert Space (2013–2016); and most recently in Opportunities in Operator Theory (2019–2021). [8]

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  2. ↑ "Stephan Ramon Garcia". Pomona College in Claremont, California - Pomona College. 2015-06-01. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  3. ↑ "Stephan Ramon Garcia". Pomona College in Claremont, California - Pomona College. 2015-06-01. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
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