Constantine Dafermos
Professor
Address
Brown University
Division of Applied Mathematics
Box F / 182 George Street
Providence, RI 02912
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Room 217, 182 George Street |
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+1 - 401 - 863 1483 |
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+1 - 401 - 863 1355 |
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dafermos at dam.brown.edu
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Research interests
Continuum mechanics and the theory
of partial differential equations
especially nonlinear hyperbolic systems
of conservation laws with solutions containing shock waves
Honors
Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2001-.
Correspondent Member, Academy of Athens, 1988-.
Honorary Professor, Academia Sinica, China, 2004-.
Member, Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), 1995-.
Fellow, Society of Scholars, Johns Hopkins University.
Chairman, Society for Natural Philosophy, 1977-78.
Secretary, International Society for the Interaction of Mathematics and Mechanics, 198486.
Ordway Chair, University of Minnesota, 1985.
Keeley Fellowship, Wadham College, Oxford, 2001.
Honorary Doctorate, University of Athens, 1987.
Honorary Doctorate, National Technical University (Greece), 1991.
Honorary Doctorate, University of Crete, 2001.
SIAM W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize, 2000.
Degrees
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University , 1967.
Diploma, Civil Engineering , National Technical University of Athens , 1964.
Professional Appointments
1987 - present: Alumni-Alumnae University Professor, Brown University .
1976 - present: Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics , Brown University .
1988 - 1993: Director, Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems .
1971 - 1976: Associate Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics , Brown University .
1968 - 1971: Assistant Professor, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics , Cornell University .
1967 - 1968: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanics , Johns Hopkins University .
Professional Activities
Editorial Board of the following publications:
Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Associate Managing Editor
Acta Mathematica Scientia, Chief Co-Editor
Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
Mathematics Applied in Science and Technology
Communications in Applied Analysis
Advances of Mathematics in Applied Sciences
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
Ricerche di Matematica
International Journal of Differential Equations and Applications
Revista Matematica Complutense
Abstract and Applied Analysis
Bulletin of Greek Mathematical Society
Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations
Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations
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