Libertas Mathematica (new series) Volume 32(2012), No. 1, 105-109
About the Editorial Board
• Constantin Corduneanu (founder of Libertas Mathematica) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at Arlington, TX 76019-0408, USA (email:
[email protected]), Member of the Romanian Academy (since 1974) and President Emeritus of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (ARA). In July 2012, he celebrated his 84th anniversary. His research expertise is in the theory of ordinary differential equations (global existence, stability, oscillation theory, almost periodic behavior of solutions to various classes of nonlinear equations), integral equations and equations with causal operators, and generalized Fourier analysis. For a detailed description of his activity, we refer to a recent anniversary article signed by A.Yu. Aleksandrov, A.A. Martynyuk, N.H. Pavel, and S.N. Vassilyev, published in Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory 12 (2) (2012) 111–118. • Sergiu Aizicovici is Professor of Mathematics at the Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests are in ordinary and partial differential equations, Volterra integral and integro-differential equations, evolution equations, and nonlinear analysis. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www.math.ohiou.edu/people/directory/aizicovi • Viorel Barbu is Professor of Mathematics at the Al. I. Cuza University, Bd. Carol I, 700506 Iasi, Romania (e-mail:
[email protected]). He is a member of the Romanian Academy, the European Academy of Sciences, and an Honorary Member of the Moldovian Academy of Sciences. He was Rector of the University of Iasi, Vice-President of the Romanian Academy, and President of the Iasi Branch of the Romanian Academy. His research interests are in differential equations, nonlinear semigroups, infinite dimensional equations, and control theory. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www.math.uaic.ro/˜barbu/index.php?id=cv • Alberto Bressan is Eberly Chair Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA (e-mail:
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[email protected]). His research interests are in functional analysis, operator theory, singular integral and pseudo-differential equations, diffraction problems in canonical domains, and boundary value problems. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www2.mat.ua.pt/lcastro/ • Arrigo Cellina is Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Milan Bicocca, Via Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano, Italy (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests are in multivalued maps, fixed points and selections, ordinary differential equations in infinite dimensional spaces, differential inclusions with convex or nonconvex right-hand side, optimal control, and calculus of variations in one or more dimensions. For more information about his activity we refer to: http://home.matapp.unimib.it/persone/arrigo-cellina • Francis Clarke is Professeur titulaire at Universit´e Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Institut Camille Jordan, UMR 5208, F - 69622 Villeurbanne c´edex, France (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests are in nonsmooth analysis (a term he coined), optimization, differential equations, control theory, and the calculus of variations, as well as modelling in various interdisciplinary areas. More information about his activity can be found at: http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/˜clarke/ • Florin Diacu is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada V8W 3R4 (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests are in celestial mechanics, dynamical systems, chaos theory, mathematical physics, history and philosophy of mathematics, as well as in mathematical, statistical, and astronomical methods in the study of historical chronology. He won the Best Academic Book Award twice (1996 and 2011) for books published
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with Princeton University Press. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www.math.uvic.ca/faculty/diacu/ • George Dinca is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bucharest, Strada Academiei 14, Bucharest, Romania (e-mail:
[email protected]). He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Sorbonne) and Member of the European Academy of Sciences. His research interests are in functional analysis, the theory of monotone operators and their applications to nonlinear mechanics, variational methods for nonlinear operator equations, numerical methods, and differential equations. More information about his activity can be found at: http://fmi.unibuc.ro/en/cv.php/mechanics/gdinca en • Jean Mawhin is Professor Emeritus at Universit´e Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (e-mail:
[email protected]). He is Member and former President of the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences. His research interests are in nonlinear ordinary differential equations (existence and multiplicity of solutions by topological and variational methods), nonlinear functional analysis, critical point theory, real analysis, and in the history of mathematics. More information about his activity can be found at: http://ebookbrowse.com/cv-jean-mawhin-pdf-d209613110 • Mitsuharu Otani is Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Tokyo, Japan, 169-8555 (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests are in nonlinear partial differential equations arising in physics and engineering, variational methods in infinite dimensional spaces, as well as evolution equations and inclusions. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www.otani.phys.waseda.ac.jp/ • Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou is Professor in the Department of Mathematics, National Technical University, Zografou Campus, Athens 15780, Greece (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests are in nonlinear analysis by variational and topological methods and multivalued analysis. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www.lm-ns.org/sys/CV Papagnew100.pdf • Florian Pop is the Samuel D. Schack Professor of Algebra at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mathematics, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6395, USA (e-mail:
[email protected]). He does research
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[email protected]) and Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy. His main interest are in von Neumann algebras and their applications, operator algebras, ergodic theory, group representation, and mathematical physics. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www.informatica.uniroma2.it/f0?fid=f6&id=67 • Tudor Ratiu is Professor of Geometrical Analysis at Facult´e des Sciences de Base, EPFL, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland (e-mail:
[email protected]) and Director of the Bernoulli Institute. His research interests are in geometric mechanics, symplectic geometry, global analysis, and infinite dimensional Lie theory, and their applications to integrable systems, nonlinear dynamics, continuum mechanics, plasma physics, and bifurcation theory. More information about his activity can be found at: http://cag.epfl.ch/page-39504-en.html • Eug´ enio Alexandre Miguel Rocha is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests are in partial differential equations, nonlinear control theory, nanoscience and nanotechnology. More information about his activity can be found at: http://eugenio.blogs.mathdir.org/ • Silviu Sburlan is Professor at the Ovidius University of Constanta and at the Naval Academy Mircea cel B˘ atrˆ an, Constanta (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests include nonlinear analysis and applications, with emphasis on topological degree, compactness and monotonicity methods for nonlinear equations, initial value and boundary value problems in mechanics, and numerical methods. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www.emis.de/journals/ASUO/mathematics/pdf5/prefata.pdf
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About the Editorial Board
• Daniel Tataru is Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests are in nonlinear differential equations, control theory, nonlinear dispersive equations, with connections to harmonic analysis, geometry, theoretical physics and fluid dynamics. More information can be found at: http://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/daniel-tataru • Izu Vaisman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 31905 Israel (e-mail:
[email protected]). His research interests are in the differential geometry of structures important in theoretical physics, such as symplectic manifolds, Poisson manifolds, complex and foliated manifolds, and generalized geometry. More information about his activity can be found at: http://math.haifa.ac.il/vaisman/vaisman.html • Ioan I. Vrabie is Professor of Mathematics at the Al. I. Cuza University, Bd. Carol I, 700506 Iasi, Romania (
[email protected]) and Senior Researcher at the Octav Mayer Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, 700505 Iasi, Romania). His research interests are in nonlinear analysis with applications to differential equations in Banach spaces, with special emphasis on nonlinear evolution inclusions, viability, invariance and applications to partial differential equations. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www.math.uaic.ro/˜ivrabie/ • Tudor Zamfirescu is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Technical University Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany (e-mail: tuzamfirescu@ gmail.com) and Senior Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania. His research interests are in convex surfaces, graph theory, discrete geometry, and nonlinear analysis. More information about his activity can be found at: http://tzamfirescu.tricube.de/ • Vasile Staicu (Editor-in-Chief of Libertas Mathematica (new series)) is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal (e-mail:
[email protected]) and Full Member of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research interests are in ordinary and partial differential equations, differential inclusions, control theory, nonsmooth analysis, nonlinear analysis. More information about his activity can be found at: http://www.mat.ua.pt/vasile/ Vasile Staicu - Editor-in-Chief