Martin Aaron Golubitskyis an American DistinguishedprofessorofmathematicsatOhio State Universityand the former director of theMathematical Biosciences Institute.
Marty Golubitsky | |
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 Marty Golubitsky at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, 2016 | |
| Born | April 5, 1945 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania,MIT |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Nice Sophia Antipolis Duke University Ohio State University Mathematical Biosciences Institute Rice University University of Houston University of Minnesota University of Toronto Fields Institute Newton Institute Trinity College |
Biography
editEducation
editMarty Golubitsky was born on April 5, 1945, inPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania.He graduated with bachelor's degree in 1966 from theUniversity of Pennsylvaniaand the same year got his master's there as well. He obtained his Ph.D. fromMassachusetts Institute of Technologyin 1970 where his advisor wasVictor Guillemin.[1]
Career
editFull-time
editFrom September 1974 to December 1976 he was an assistant professor at theQueens Collegeand from January of next year to August 1979 served as an associate professor there. Starting from the same month of 1979 he relocated himself to theArizona State Universitywhere he became a professor and served there till August 1983. In September of the same year he held the same position at theUniversity of Houstonwhere he remained till November 2008. From then until 2016 he served as the director of theMathematical Biosciences InstituteatOhio State Universitywhere he retains a distinguished professorship in mathematics. He affiliates himself with such organizations as theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science,American Mathematical Society,Association for Women in MathematicsandSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[1]He served as the President of theSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics(SIAM) 2005–2006.[2]In 2012 he became an inaugural fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.[3]and in 2009 a SIAM Fellow.[4]
Visiting
editFrom January 1980 to June of the same year he worked atUniversity of Nice Sophia Antipolisas a visiting professor and then from September to December of the next year worked at theDuke University.Following that he worked at theUniversity of California, Berkeley,with the same position which lasted him for two months in summer of 1982 and then from January to June 1989 he worked at theInstitute for Mathematics and Applications,a division of theUniversity of Minnesota.He continued to hold that position even four years later when from January to June 1993 he was working at the division ofUniversity of WaterloocalledFields Institute.From August to November 2005 he worked at bothNewton InstituteandTrinity CollegeinCambridgeand then from January to June 2006 worked at theUniversity of Torontoas a distinguished professor. As of July 2005 he works as an adjunct professor at theComputational and Applied Mathematicsdivision ofRice University.[1]
Publications
editIn 1992, he andIan Stewartwrote a book calledFearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?which was published byBlackwell PublishersinOxford.In 1994 it was translated into Dutch byHans van Cuijlenborgwhere it came out under a title ofTurings tijgerbyEpsilon UitgaveninUtrecht.In 1995 the same work was translated intoItalianbyLibero SosioasTerribili simmetrie: Dio è un geometra?and was published inTurin,Italy.His second book, on which he worked withM. FieldcalledSymmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art, and Naturewas released byOxford University Press,in 1992 and was followed by German translation byMicha Lotrovskyin 1993 and the French one the same year byChristian Jeanmouginwhich was published byInter´EditionsinParis.Besides books he also has numerouspeer-reviewedarticles and even was a co-editor of theMultiparameter Bifurcation Theory, Contemporary Mathematicswhich was published byAssociation for Computing Machineryin 1986.[1]
References
edit- ^abcd"Marty Golubitsky"(PDF).pp. 1–27.RetrievedDecember 24,2013.
- ^SIAM PresidentsRetrieved May 22, 2014.
- ^List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society,Retrieved January 20, 2014.
- ^SIAM FellowsRetrieved May 22, 2014.