Eitan Tadmor (; born May 4, 1954) is a distinguished university professor at the

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. His work has featured contributions to the theory and computation of

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s with diverse applications to

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, kinetic transport,

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, and self-organized collective dynamics.

Academic biography

Tadmor completed his mathematical studies (BSc, 1973, MSc, 1975, PhD, 1978) at

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. In 1980–1982 he was a Bateman Research Instructor in

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. He returned to his alma mater, and held professorship positions at

during 1983–1998, where he chaired the Department of Applied Mathematics (1991–1993). He moved to

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(1995–2002), where he was the founding co-director of the NSF

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(IPAM) (1999–2001). In 2002 he joined the

, serving as the founding Director of the university Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM), (2002–2016). He is on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics, the Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology and CSCAMM. In 2012 he was awarded as the PI of the NSF Research network "Kinetic Description of Emerging Challenges in Natural Sciences"
KI-Net
(2012–2018).

Research contributions

Tadmor has made contributions to the development of high-resolution methods for nonlinear conservation laws, introducing the classes of central schemes, entropy stable schemes and spectral viscosity methods. He was involved in work on kinetic theories and critical thresholds phenomena in nonlinear transport models. He introduced novel ideas of multi-scale hierarchical descriptions of images, and is leading an interdisciplinary program on self-collective dynamics with applications to flocking and opinion dynamics. Tadmor has been an adviser of more than 30 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.

Honors

Tadmor was listed on the 2003 ISI most cited researchers in Mathematics. He has given an invited lecture at the 2002

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(ICM) (Beijing), plenary addresses in the international conferences on hyperbolic problems (

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1990 and Beijing 1998), and the 2008 Foundations of Computational Mathematics meeting in Hong Kong, and the SIAM invited address at the 2014 Joint Mathematical meeting in

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. In 2012 he was in the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. In 2015 he was awarded the SIAM-ETH Henrici prize for ″original, broad and fundamental contributions to the applied and numerical analysis of nonlinear differential equations and their applications in areas such as fluid dynamics, image processing and social dynamics". He was named a

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in the 2021 class of fellows, "for original, broad, and fundamental contributions to applied and computational mathematics, including conservation laws, kinetics, image processing, and social dynamics". In 2022 he was awarded the

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. and delivered the 2022 AMS

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.Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
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References

External links

Tadmor's home page
at

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tadmor, Eitan 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Israeli mathematicians Computational fluid dynamicists 1954 births Living people Tel Aviv University alumni Academic staff of Tel Aviv University University of California, Los Angeles faculty University of Maryland, College Park faculty Numerical analysts Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics