Mark Jay Ablowitz (born June 5, 1945,

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) is a professor in the department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado. He was born in New York City.

Education

Ablowitz received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from University of Rochester, and completed his Ph.D. in

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under the supervision of

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at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971.

Career and research

Ablowitz was an assistant professor of Mathematics at Clarkson University during 1971–1975 and an associate professor during 1975–1976. He visited the Program in Applied Mathematics founded by

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at Princeton University during 1977–1978. He was a professor of Mathematics at Clarkson during 1976-1985 where he became the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in 1979. On July 1, 1985, he was appointed as the Dean of Science of Clarkson University and served there until he joined to the department of Applied Mathematics (APPM) at University of Colorado Boulder on June 30, 1989.

Awards and honors

* Sloan Fellowship, 1975–1977. * Clarkson Graham Research Award, 1976. * John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1984. * SIAM Fellow, 2011. *

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Symposium on Soliton Theory Kiev, USSR 1979. *Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2012-11-03.

Publications

*'' Solitons and the

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Transform'', M.J. Ablowitz and H. Segur, (SIAM Studies in Applied Mathematics) 1981 *''Topics in Soliton Theory and Exactly Solvable Nonlinear Equations'', Eds. M.J. Ablowitz, B. Fuchssteiner and M. D. Kruskal, ( World Scientific) 1987 *''Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering'', M.J. Ablowitz and P.A. Clarkson, (

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Lecture Notes Series, 516 pages, ( Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1991) *''Complex Variables: Introduction and Applications'', Mark J. Ablowitz and A. S. Fokas, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1997) *''Nonlinear Physics: Theory and Experiment. II'', M.J. Ablowitz, M. Boiti, F. Pempinelli and B. Prinari, (World Scientific 2003) *''Discrete and Continuous Nonlinear Schrödinger Systems'', Mark J. Ablowitz, B. Prinari and D. Trubatch, 258 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2004) *''Nonlinear Dispersive Waves: Asymptotic Analysis and Solitons'', Mark J. Ablowitz, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2011)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ablowitz, Mark J. Living people University of Rochester alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni Clarkson University faculty University of Colorado Boulder faculty 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 1945 births Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics