Prof. Eitan Tadmor

ACADEMIC HOST
Prof. Yaron Ostrover
Department of Theoretical Mathematics

Lowy Distinguished Guest Professor
1.1.26-30.1.26

Education

• B.Sc. in Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Israel (1973)
• M.Sc. in Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Israel (1975)
• Ph.D. in Mathematics, Tel Aviv University, Israel (1978)

Professional Experience

• Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park (2002–present)
• Department of Mathematics & Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology; Founding Director, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM, 2002–2016)
• Senior Fellow, Institute for Theoretical Studies, ETH Zürich (2016–2017)
• Professor, UCLA (1995–2002), Founding Co-Director, NSF IPAM (1999–2001)
• Professor, Tel Aviv University (1983–1998), Chair of Applied Mathematics (1991–1993)
• Bateman Research Instructor, Caltech (1980–1982)

Fellowships and Memberships

• AMS Fellow (inaugural class, 2012), SIAM Fellow (2021)
• Member, Academia Europaea; European Academy of Science (2022)
• Recipient of the SIAM-ETH Peter Henrici Prize (2015) and AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener Prize (2022)
• Delivered the 2022 AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship

Research Interest

• Analytical and computational aspects of time-dependent problems
• Applications: shock waves, kinetic transport, incompressible flows, image processing, self-organized dynamics
• Bridging theory and computation in multiscale phenomena