[cmath] announcement of next PIMS Deputy Director

[Alejandro Adem]

Next PIMS Deputy Director Announced

The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is pleased to announce 
that on June 19, 2009 its Board of Directors approved the appointment of 
George M. Homsy as Deputy Director of PIMS for a five-year period, 
starting on January 1, 2010. Professor Homsy will also assume a faculty 
position at the University of British Columbia.

George Homsy is currently a faculty member at the University of California 
at Santa Barbara. His field of research is fluid mechanics and 
hydrodynamic stability and he has published over 150 papers in the leading 
journals of the field.

Professor Homsy has held many positions, including Vice-Chair and Chair of 
the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, two terms as 
Department Chair at Stanford, Chairman of the Board of the Universities 
Space Research Association, one term as Department Chair at UC Santa 
Barbara, and the Associate Editorships of both SIAM J. Applied Math and 
Physics of Fluids. He is a Fellow of the APS, a Bing Fellow at Stanford 
University, and has been the Midwest Mechanics speaker, the Talbot 
Lecturer at UIUC, and the Bachelor Visitor at DAMTP, Cambridge in addition 
to many visiting professorships in the US and Europe. He was the Principal 
Investigator for the production of "Multimedia Fluid Mechanics" (Cambridge 
2001), and its second edition (2008). He is the recipient of the APS Fluid 
Dynamics Prize for 2004 and was elected to the US National Academy of 
Engineering in 2006.