Charles Rogers Doering was a professor of mathematics at the

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, Ann Arbor. He is notable for his research that is generally focused on the analysis of stochastic dynamical systems arising in biology, chemistry and physics, to systems of nonlinear partial differential equations. Recently he had been focusing on fundamental questions in

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as part of the $1M Clay Institute millennium challenge concerning the regularity of solutions to the equations of fluid dynamics. With J. D. Gibbon, he notably co-authored the book ''Applied Analysis of the Navier-Stokes Equations'', published by

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. He died on May 15, 2021.

Education

He received his BS from

Antioch College Antioch College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection and began operating in 1852 as a non-secta ...

, 1977; his MS from the

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, 1978; and his PhD from

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under

Cécile DeWitt-Morette Cécile Andrée Paule DeWitt-Morette (21 December 1922 – 8 May 2017) was a French mathematician and physicist. She founded the Les Houches School of Physics in the French Alps. For this and her publications, she was awarded the American S ...

, 1985, in the area of applying

stochastic differential equation A stochastic differential equation (SDE) is a differential equation in which one or more of the terms is a stochastic process, resulting in a solution which is also a stochastic process. SDEs have many applications throughout pure mathematics an ...

s to

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and field theory. His masters thesis was entitled: ''Generation of solutions to the Einstein equations.'' His PhD thesis was entitled, ''Functional stochastic differential equations: mathematical theory of nonlinear parabolic systems with applications in field theory and statistical mechanics.''

Career

In 1986–87, he was a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow 1986–87, Center for Nonlinear Studies,

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; in 1987–96, he rose to Professor of Physics, 1987–96,

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; in 1994–96, he was Deputy Director of Los Alamos' Center for Nonlinear Studies. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1996, where he eventually became the Nicholas D. Kazarinoff Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems, Mathematics and Physics and the Director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems. He was very active in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Honors

Doering received a number of honours including the

Presidential Young Investigator Award The Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI) was awarded by the National Science Foundation of the United States Federal Government. The program operated from 1984 to 1991, and was replaced by the NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Awards and Preside ...

, 1989–94; Fulbright Scholarship, 2001; 1995; Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of ...

, 2001; the

Humboldt Research Award The Humboldt Research Award (), also known informally as the Humboldt Prize, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of Germany in recognition of t ...

, 2003. He was named Fellow of the

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in 2011, a

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Fellow in Theoretical Physics in 2014, a

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in Applied Mathematics in 2016, and a

Fellow in Mathematics in 2021.

References

External links

Charles Döring's works on Google Scholar

Doering's math genealogy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Doering, Charles R. 1956 births 2021 deaths Antioch College alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences alumni University of Michigan faculty American fluid dynamicists American probability theorists 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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