Mark J. Ablowitz


Mark Jay Ablowitz is a professor in the department of Applied Mathematics at the University of [Colorado at Boulder], Colorado.

Education

Ablowitz was born on June 5, 1945, in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Rochester in 1967, and completed his Ph.D. in mathematics under the supervision of David Benney at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971.

Career and research

Ablowitz was an assistant professor of mathematics at Clarkson University during 1971–1975 and an associate professor during 1975–1976. He visited the Program in Applied Mathematics founded by Ahmed Cemal Eringen at Princeton University during 1977–1978. He was a professor of mathematics at Clarkson during 1976–1985, where he became the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in 1979. On July 1, 1985, he was appointed as the Dean of Science of Clarkson University and served there until he joined to the department of Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado Boulder on June 30, 1989.

Awards and honors

Publications

  • Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform, M.J. Ablowitz and H. Segur, 1981
  • Topics in Soliton Theory and Exactly Solvable Nonlinear Equations, Eds. M.J. Ablowitz, B. Fuchssteiner and M. D. Kruskal, 1987
  • Solitons, Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Inverse Scattering, M.J. Ablowitz and P.A. Clarkson,
  • Complex Variables: Introduction and Applications, Mark J. Ablowitz and A. S. Fokas,
  • Nonlinear Physics: Theory and Experiment. II, M.J. Ablowitz, M. Boiti, F. Pempinelli and B. Prinari,
  • Discrete and Continuous Nonlinear Schrödinger Systems, Mark J. Ablowitz, B. Prinari and D. Trubatch, 258
  • Nonlinear Dispersive Waves: Asymptotic Analysis and Solitons, Mark J. Ablowitz,