[cmath] Walter Craig Appointed Next Director of the Fields Institute

[Andrea MacLeod]

Walter Craig Appointed Next Director of the Fields Institute

Walter Craig, Canada Research Chair (Tier I) of Mathematical Analysis and
its Applications at McMaster University, has been appointed Director of the
Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, beginning July 2013.

Walter received his doctorate from the Courant Institute (1981), and he has
held faculty positions at Caltech, Stanford University and Brown University,
where he was department chair, before moving with his wife to McMaster in
the year 2000.

He is a prominent mathematical analyst, whose interests include partial
differential equations, Hamiltonian dynamical systems, and their
applications to the physical sciences. His contributions have been to
theoretical aspects of these fields, as well as their applications to
fundamental problems in physics, including small divisor problems in
Hamiltonian partial differential equations, microlocal propagation of
singularities for the Schrodinger equation, advances in the mathematical
theory of water waves and their modeling, and progress on the important
issue of regularity for solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. He has
authored more than 100 research articles. Walter has been awarded the
Bantrell, Sloan, and Killam Research Fellowships, and was elected as a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and the American Mathematical Society, as well as a
Fields Institute Fellow.

He has organized several Thematic Programs at the Fields Institute, and has
been a regular visiting member since his move to Canada. Walter served on
the Fields Institute Scientific Advisory Panel (2000-2005), the Scientific
Nominating Committee (2001-2005) and the Board of Directors (2009-2012).


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