Research Areas:
Applied & Computational Mathematics, PDE, Stochastic Processes

Prof. George Papanicolaou received his PhD in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of New York University in 1969, and had been teaching at NYU for 24 years before he joined Stanford University in 1993. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, chair of the Applied Mathematics Division of NAS, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Papanicolaou has made significant contributions in many fields of applied mathematics. He was awarded the SIAM John von Neumann Prize in 2006 in recognition of his wide-ranging development of penetrating analytic and stochastic methods and their applications to a broad range of phenomena in the physical, geophysical, and financial sciences.