Vita: James Glimm
Distinguished Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics
SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3600
Tel: (631) 632-8355; Fax: (631) 632-8490
Email: glimm@ams.sunysb.edu
Professional
Preparation
Appointments
1999-
Staff Member, Computational
1989- Distinguished Professor, SUNY at Stony Brook
1982-89
Professor, Courant Institute,
1974-82
Professor, The
1968-74
Professor, Courant Institute,
1960-68 Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, MIT
1959-60 Temporary Member, Institute for Advanced Study
Prizes, Honors, and
Fellowships:
Steele Prize for a paper of
fundamental importance, AMS (1993); Member, National Academy of Sciences;
Member,
Dannie Heineman prize for Mathematical Physics (1980); New York Academy of Science Award in the Physical and Math Sciences (1979); National Science Foundation Fellowship 1959-1960; Guggenheim Fellowships 1963-1964, 1965-1966.
Selected Recent
Publications:
1. B. CHENG, J. GLIMM AND D. H. SHARP, “A Three-Dimensional Renormalization Group Bubble Merger Model for Rayleigh-Taylor Mixing”. Chaos 12 (2002), 267- 274.
2. J. GLIMM, H. JIN, M. LAFOREST, F. TANGERMAN, AND Y. ZHANG, “A Two Pressure Numerical Model of Two Fluid Mixing”, SIAM J. Multiscale Model. Sim. 1 (2003) 458-484.
3. E. GEORGE, J. GLIMM, X.L. LI, Y. H. LI AND X. F. LIU, “The Influence of Scale-Breaking Phenomena on Turbulent Mixing Rates”, Phys. Rev. E. 73 (2006), 016304.
4. J. GLIMM, J. GROVE, Y. KANG, T. LEE, X. LI, D. H. SHARP, Y. YU AND M. ZHAO, “Error in Numerical Solutions of Spherically Symmetric Shock Physics Problems”, Contemporary Mathematics 371 (2005) 163-179.
5. J. GLIMM, J. GROVE, AND Y. ZHANG, “Three Dimensional Axisymmetric Simulations of Fluid Instabilities in Curved Geometry”, J. Stat. Phys. 107 (2002) 241-260.
6. J. GLIMM AND D. SHARP, “Prediction and the Quantification of Uncertainty”. Physica D 133 (1999), pp 152-170.
7. J. GLIMM, D. SALTZ, AND D. H. SHARP, “The Statistical Evolution of Chaotic Fluid Mixing”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998), 712-715.
8.
J. GLIMM, J. W. GROVE, X.-L. LI, K.-M.
SHYUE, Q. ZHANG, AND Y. ZENG, “Three Dimensional Front Tracking”,
9. H. LIM, Y. YU, J. GLIMM AND D. H. SHARP, “Nonideal Rayleigh-Taylor Mixing” Proc. Nat. Ac. Sci., (2009), Submitted for publication.
10. J. GLIMM,
J. GROVE, X. L. LI, AND D. C. TAN, “Robust Computational Algorithms for Dynamic
Interface Tracking in Three Dimensions”,
Students, Advisors,
Collaborators
PhD advisor: Richard Kadison Former Students: Y. Chen, L. Koralov, H. J. Kim, T. Smith, J.-Y.
K.Ye, G. Martyna, R. Samulyak, W. Oh, H. Kirk, K. McDonald, M. Kim, Y. Prykarpatskyy, N. Stojic, M. Komejl, W. Zhu, Y. Ma, J. Mitchell, P. Drake, X. Wang, J. Kovach, X. Jiao, P. Zhang, T. Zhang, Y. Zheng, Y. Yu, M. McGuigan, P. parks, D.K. Keyes.