Athanassios S. Fokas

Athanassios S. Fokas

Athanassios S. Fokas (b. June 30, 1952) is a Greek mathematician, well known in the field of integrable nonlinear partial differential equations. Fokas was born on the Greek island of Kefallonia.

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)

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.

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

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)

Family

Wife Regina and three children Alexander, Anastassia, Ioanna

ee also

*Calogero-Degasperis-Fokas equation

External links

* [http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tf227/ Home Page of Prof. AS FOKAS]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=11830 The Mathematics Genealogy Project]
* [http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=3403 ISI Highly Cited Researchers - AS Fokas]


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