Athanassios S. Fokas
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Athanassios S. Fokas is a Greek mathematician, well known in the field of integrable nonlinear partial differential equations. Fokas was born on the Greek island of Kefallonia on June 30, 1952.
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[edit] Academic qualifications
- BSc (Aeronautics) - Imperial College (1975)
- PhD in Applied Mathematics - California Institute of Technology (1979)
- MD - University of Miami, School of Medicine (1986)
- Honorary Doctorate of Sciences - Technical University of Crete (2004)
- Honorary Doctorate of Mathematics - University of Patras (2004)
- Honorary Doctorate of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences - Technical University of Athens (Polytechnio) (2004)
- Honorary Doctorate in Mathematics - University of Athens (2006)
[edit] Academic history
Appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Clarkson University in 1986. In 1996 he moved to Imperial College to become chair of Applied Mathematics. He has been a Professor of Mathematics at University of Cambridge and Chair in Nonlinear Mathematical Science since 2002.
[edit] Honors
- Member of the Academy of Athens
- New Year's list of honours (2005) of the President of the Hellenic Republic
- Commander of the Order of Phoenix
[edit] Publications
- M J Ablowitz and A S Fokas, Introduction and Applications of Complex Variables, Cambridge University Press, second edition (2003)
- A S Fokas, A R Its , A A Kapaev and V Yu Novokshenov , Painlevé Transcendents: A Riemman-Hilbert Approach, AMS (2006)
[edit] Family
Wife Regina and three children Alexander, Anastassia, Ioanna
[edit] External links
- Home Page of Prof. AS FOKAS
- The Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ISI Highly Cited Researchers - AS Fokas
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