Ciprian Foias

Ciprian Foias
Born (1933-07-20) 20 July 1933
Reșița, Caraș County, Kingdom of Romania
Nationality Romania
Alma mater University of Bucharest
Awards Wiener Prize (1995)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Indiana University
University of Bucharest
Doctoral advisor Miron Nicolescu
Doctoral students Adrian Ocneanu
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu
Alexey Cheskidov

Ciprian Ilie Foiaș (born 20 July 1933) is a Romanian mathematician. He was awarded the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics in 1995, for his contributions in operator theory.

Education and career

Born in Reșița, Romania, Foias received his doctorate from the University of Bucharest in 1962, under supervision of Miron Nicolescu. He taught at his alma mater (1966–1979), Paris-Sud 11 University (1979–1983), and Indiana University (1983 until retirement). Since 2000, he has been teaching and doing research at Texas A&M University, where he is a Distinguished Professor.

The Foias constant is named after him. Foias is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[1]

Publications

  • with Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy: Harmonic analysis of operators on Hilbert Space. North Holland 1970 (Translated from the French; first edition: Masson 1967). MR 0275190
  • with Roger Temam, Oscar Manley, and Ricardo Rosa: Navier Stokes equations and Turbulence. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • with Peter Constantin, Roger Temam: Attractors reprenting turbulent flows. American Mathematical Society, 1985.
  • with Peter Constantin: Navier Stokes Equations. University of Chicago Press, 1988.
  • with Hitay Özbay, Allen Tannenbaum: Robust control of infinite dimensional systems. Springer, 1995.
  • with Hari Bercovici, Carl Pearcy: Dual algebras with applications to invariant subspaces and dilation theory. American Mathematical Society, 1985.
  • with Ion Colojoară: Theory of generalized spectral operators. Gordon and Breach, 1968.
  • with Peter Constantin, Roger Temam, and Basil Nicolaenko: Integral Manifolds and Inertial Manifolds for Dissipative Partial Differential Equations. Springer-Verlag, Applied Mathematical Sciences Series, volume 70, 1988.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "List of ISI highly cited researchers".
  • Ciprian Foias at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • "Website at Indiana University".
  • "Website at Texas A&M".
  • ""Foias Constant." From MathWorld".


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