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APPENDIX A
PANEL AND STAFF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy
International Benchmarking of US Mathematics Research Panel
Peter D. Lax [NAS*] (Chair) is professor of mathematics and director of the Courant Mathematics and Computer Lab at New York University. Before taking his current positions, he was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (1972-1980) and director of the AEC Computing and Applied Mathematics Center (1964-1972), both at NYU. He is a National Medal of Science awardee, former president of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and a former National Science Board member. He has extensive experience as a lecturer overseas, particularly in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom as well as being a foreign member of the French, Chinese, Hungarian, and Russian academies of sciences. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Lax has received many honorary degrees, the Wolf Prize (1987), the National Academy of Sciences Prize in Applied Mathematics (1983), the Norbert Wiener Prize of AMS and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1975), the Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America (1974), and the Steele Prize of AMS (1992).
Michael F. Atiyah [NAS-F] is director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, England, and president of the Royal Society (1990-1995). He has recently retired as master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Before this, he was a Royal Society research professor and fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford (1973-1990). He has served as professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States (1969-1972) and Savilian Professor of Geometry at University of Oxford (1963-1969). He attended Victoria College in Cairo and received his BA (1952) and PhD (1955) from the University of Cambridge. Sir Michael is a member of many academies of sciences. He holds many honorary doctorates and several honorary fellowships. Sir Michael has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (1966-1974), president of the London Mathematical Society (1975-1977), president of the Mathematical Association (1981-1982), member of the Science and Engineering Research Council (1984-1989), member of the Council of the Royal Society (1973-1974), vice-president of the Royal Society (1984-1985), and chairman of the European Mathematical Council (1978-1990). He received the Fields Medal in 1966.
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APPENDIX A
PANEL AND STAFF BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy
International Benchmarking of US Mathematics Research Panel
Peter D. Lax [NAS*] (Chair) is professor of mathematics and director of the Courant Mathematics and Computer Lab at New York University. Before taking his current positions, he was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (1972-1980) and director of the AEC Computing and Applied Mathematics Center (1964-1972), both at NYU. He is a National Medal of Science awardee, former president of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), and a former National Science Board member. He has extensive experience as a lecturer overseas, particularly in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom as well as being a foreign member of the French, Chinese, Hungarian, and Russian academies of sciences. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Lax has received many honorary degrees, the Wolf Prize (1987), the National Academy of Sciences Prize in Applied Mathematics (1983), the Norbert Wiener Prize of AMS and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (1975), the Chauvenet Prize of the Mathematical Association of America (1974), and the Steele Prize of AMS (1992).
Michael F. Atiyah [NAS-F] is director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, England, and president of the Royal Society (1990-1995). He has recently retired as master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Before this, he was a Royal Society research professor and fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford (1973-1990). He has served as professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States (1969-1972) and Savilian Professor of Geometry at University of Oxford (1963-1969). He attended Victoria College in Cairo and received his BA (1952) and PhD (1955) from the University of Cambridge. Sir Michael is a member of many academies of sciences. He holds many honorary doctorates and several honorary fellowships. Sir Michael has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union (1966-1974), president of the London Mathematical Society (1975-1977), president of the Mathematical Association (1981-1982), member of the Science and Engineering Research Council (1984-1989), member of the Council of the Royal Society (1973-1974), vice-president of the Royal Society (1984-1985), and chairman of the European Mathematical Council (1978-1990). He received the Fields Medal in 1966.
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Spencer J. Bloch [NAS] is professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. He was an instructor, lecturer, and assistant professor at Princeton (1971-1974) and an associate professor at the University of Michigan (1974-1976). Dr. Bloch has done pioneering work in the application of higher algebraic K theory to algebraic geometry, particularly in problems related to algebraic cycles, and is regarded as the world's leader in this field. His work has firmly established higher K theory as a fundamental tool in algebraic geometry. Dr. Bloch received his BA at Harvard (1966) and his PhD from Columbia (1971).
Joseph B. Keller [NAS] is professor of mathematics and mechanical engineering (emeritus) at Stanford University. Before this, he was at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (1948-1979), where he received his PhD in mathematics (1948). He is a foreign member of the Royal Society and was honorary professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of the Wolf Prize (1997), the Frederick E. Nemmers Prize (1996), the National Academy of Sciences Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis (1995), the National Medal of Science (1988), the Timoshenko Medal (1984), the Eringen Medal (1981), and the von Karman Prize (1979). He was von Neumann Lecturer (1983) and Gibbs Lecturer of the American Mathematical Society (1977).
Jacques-Louis Lions [NAS-F] is professor at the College de France in Paris and president of the French Academy of Sciences. He has contributed fundamental research in nonlinear partial differential equations, including homogenization and control. He has trained an entire generation of modern applied mathematicians in France. He has pioneered industrial and applied mathematics cooperation in France as cofounder of Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) and as president of the French Space Agency. In addition, he is a former president and secretary of the International Mathematical Union.
Yuri I. Manin is a member (since 1993) and director (since 1995) of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics. He is also leading researcher of the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1960, now in absentia.) In 1965-1992, he was professor of algebra at Moscow University and held various visiting professorships, in particular at Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences, Russia, the Royal Society of Sciences of the Netherlands, the Academia Europaea, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, the Gottingen Academy of Sciences Class of Physics and Mathematics, and the Pontificia Academia Scientiarum. He won the Lenin Prize for work in algebraic geometry (1967), the international Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics of Northwestern University (1994) and the Brouwer Golden Medal of the Royal Society and Mathematical Society of the Netherlands for work in number theory (1987).
Rudolph A. Marcus [NAS] is A.A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He is also an honorary professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and at the Institute of Chemistry in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Dr. Marcus holds an honorary fellowship at University College of the University of Oxford and was Linnett Visiting Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He previously held positions at the University of North Carolina, the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, the University of Illinois, the University of
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Oxford, and the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Marcus received his BSc (1943) and PhD (1946) in chemistry from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Royal Society of Canada, and he is a member of the Royal Society, the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, the American Philosophical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society. Dr. Marcus received the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1992.
Gary C. McDonald is head of the Operations Research Department at the General Motors Research and Development Center. Before this, he was head of the mathematics department at the center (1983-1992). He is also adjunct professor of mathematics at Oakland University. Dr. McDonald started as associate senior research mathematician at General Motors in 1969 and has held the positions of senior research mathematician (1972-1976) and assistant department head (1976-1983). He received his BA (1964) from St. Mary's College and his MS (1966) and PhD (1969) from Purdue University. He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Cathleen S. Morawetz [NAS] is professor emeritus at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. She has been with the institute since starting as a research associate (1952). She held positions as assistant professor (1957-1960), associate professor (1960-1965), professor (1965-present), and chairman (1981-84) Department of Mathematics, associate director (1978-1981), deputy director (1981-1984), and director (1984-1988). Dr. Morawetz was a trustee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1980-1984) and a member of the National Research Council's Board on Mathematical Sciences. She was president of the American Mathematical Society during 1995-1996 and is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received her BA (1945) from the University of Toronto, her MS (1946) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her PhD (1951) from New York University.
Peter Sarnak is chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University. Before this, he was the H. Fine Professor (1995-1996). He has also been professor at Stanford University (1987-1991), the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (1989), a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Hebrew University (1987-1988), and assistant and associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (1980-1983). Dr. Sarnak received his BSc (1974) from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and his PhD (1980) from Stanford University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a Sloan fellow (1983-1985) and presidential young investigator (1985-1990).
I.M. Singer [NAS] is Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research has been in the fields of index theory/manifold invariants/elliptic analysis, differential geometry, functional analysis, and operator theory. He has been teaching calculus intermittently between 1949 and 1997. He received the AMS Bocher Memorial Prize (1969), the National
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Medal of Science (1983), the Wigner Medal (1988), and the AMS Award for Public Service (1993). He was chairman of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science and Public Policy (1973-1978) and was with the White House Science Council from 1982 to 1988. Dr. Singer received his BS (1944) from the University of Michigan and his MS (1948) and PhD (1950) in mathematics from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, the Governing Board of the National Research Council, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Mathematical Society (vice president, 1970-1972), the American Physical Society, and the American Philosophical Society.
Margaret H. Wright [NAE] is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. Before joining Bell Laboratories she worked in the Department of Operations Research at Stanford University (1976-1988). Dr. Wright holds a BS in mathematics, and MS and PhD degrees in computer science, from Stanford University. She served as president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics during 1995-1996. Her research involves theory and algorithms for optimization and linear algebra, scientific computing, and solution of real-world optimization problems.
STAFF
Deborah D. Stine is the study director and associate director of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP). She has been working on various projects throughout the National Academy of Sciences complex since 1989. She received a National Research Council group award for her first study for COSEPUP on policy implications of greenhouse warming and a Commission on Life Sciences staff citation for her work in risk assessment and management. Other studies have addressed graduate education, responsible conduct of research, careers in science and engineering, environmental remediation, the national biological survey, and corporate environmental stewardship. She holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical and environmental engineering from the University of California, Irvine; a master's degree in business administration; and a PhD in public administration, specializing in policy analysis, from the American University. Before coming to the Academy, she was a mathematician for the Air Force, an air-pollution engineer for the state of Texas, and an air-issues manager for the Chemical Manufacturers Association.
John R. Tucker has been director of the Board on Mathematical Sciences (BMS) since 1994. He earned degrees in mathematics at Washington College (BA) and George Washington University (Mphil and PhD). He has worked as a researcher with Chi Associates, Inc., and an assistant professor of mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University and Mary Washington College. He joined the National Research Council in 1989 as program officer for the BMS and advanced to senior program officer in 1993. His interests include nonlinear dynamics, order and disorder, mixing processes, and mathematical developments in biology and medicine.
Lawrence E. McCray is executive director of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP). He held positions in the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Regulatory Council, and the Office of Management and Budget before coming to the National Academy of Sciences in 1981. He has directed Academy studies in carcinogenic risk assessment,
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export controls, nuclear winter, and federal science budgeting. A Fulbright scholar in 1968, he received the Schattschneider award in 1972 from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in American government and politics. In 1987, he received the National Research Council staff award. He joined COSEPUP in 1988 as executive director and since 1994 has served concurrently as the director of the NRC Policy Division.
Patrick P. Sevcik is research associate with the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP). He works on a variety of projects for COSEPUP, the Policy Division (PD), and the PD Office of Special Projects, assisting Deborah Stine and Lawrence McCray. Before coming to the National Research Council in 1993, he was an assistant program officer with the International Republican Institute from 1990 to 1993, working on democracy development, primarily in central and eastern Europe. He has held positions at the White House in the Office of Political Affairs (1989-1990) and on Capitol Hill (1987-1988) in the office of Representative John DioGuardi (R-NY). During that time, he also held concurrent positions in several Slovak-American organizations. He holds a BA in international affairs, with an emphasis on Soviet and Eastern European studies, from the George Washington University. He has also studied Russian language and culture at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in Leningrad.
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NAS Member of the National Academy of Sciences
NAS-F Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences
NAE Member of the National Academy of Engineering
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