[Turkmath:7216] Fw: Fwd: Jerry Marsden

[Alp Eden]

Degerli Liste Uyeleri,

Mrsden'in oldugunu uzuntu ile ogrenmis bulunuyorum.

Alp Eden


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From: Atilla Yilmaz <atilla at math.berkeley.edu>
To: Alp Eden <eden at boun.edu.tr>
Sent: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:42:58 -0700
Subject: Fwd: Jerry Marsden

Asagida Marsden'in bir biyografisi var.

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From: Hugh Woodin <woodin at math.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:03 PM
Subject: Jerry Marsden
To: faculty at math.berkeley.edu

Dear colleagues,
I am very sad to inform you that Jerry Marsden passed away yesterday.
Below is a message forwarded to me by Barry Simon which was sent to
the Caltech faculty.   --Hugh

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Subject:  Jerry Marsden - Passed Away
Date:  Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:24:58 -0700
From:  Rosakis, Ares J <arosakis at caltech.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

It is my extremely sad duty to report that Jerry Marsden passed away
yesterday evening, September 21, 2010.  He died at home in Pasadena,
with his wife Barbara and daughter Alison at his side.

Jerry was an amazing intellectual, a gifted professor and one of the
finest colleagues that I have met. He was a great mentor to many of our
Caltech students and our younger colleagues.  We will miss him greatly
and remember him always.

Below I have appended a short biography.  I will keep you informed about
services as the details are known.  The family has asked that no flowers
be sent, but instead contributions be made in Jerry's name towards a
scholarship fund or the Pasadena dog rescue Mutts and Moms, P.O. Box
50303, Pasadena, CA  91115.

Ares

Biography - Professor Jerrold E. Marsden---

Professor Jerrold E. Marsden received his B.Sc. in Mathematics at the
University of Toronto in 1965, followed by a Ph.D. in Applied
Mathematics from Princeton University in 1968. He joined Caltech as
Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems in 1995 and was appointed the
Carl F Braun Professor in 2003. He had a distinguished career in
theoretical mechanics and applied mathematics and has been both
inspiration and motivation for many.

Professor Marsden's research interests have spanned a wide range of
areas, including classical mechanics, fluid mechanics, elasticity,
geometric mechanics, control theory, dynamical systems, numerical
methods, relativity, and stochastic systems. The key principle
underlying his work has been the application of geometric ideas,
frequently revealing an underlying unity between disparate disciplines.
He has been instrumental in connecting deep mathematical concepts with
theoretical mechanics and practical applications, producing foundational
work on the geometric analysis of fluid mechanics and the reduction of
mechanical systems with symmetries on symplectic manifolds. These ideas
have led to important advances in diverse fields including space mission
design, underwater vehicle control, turbulence modeling, and
computational mechanics.

Professor Marsden was well-known as an accomplished educator. He
authored six undergraduate mathematics textbooks that are very popular,
as well as fourteen monographs, many of which are the definitive
references in their fields. He has been an important influence on the
careers of many young researchers, with over 40 Ph.D. students of his
own, many postdocs, and much informal mentoring. His open-mindedness and
collaborative spirit have connected many researchers, resulting in over
400 papers.

The contributions of Professor Marsden have been widely recognized by
the community. He has received the Jeffery-Williams Prize (1982), the
AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener prize (1990), two Humboldt Prizes (1991, 1999),
a Fairchild Fellowship (1992), a Max Planck Research Award (2000), and
the SIAM von Neumann Prize (2005). He is a fellow of the Royal Society
of Canada and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.   In 2006 he was
elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society. In the same year, he also
received an honorary doctorate from the University of Surrey and the GSC
Teaching and Mentoring Award at Caltech.

As well as his important personal work, Professor Marsden has been a
major catalyst in the community, where his good humor and kindness have
been very valuable. He is an editor of six Springer book series in
applied mathematics and is on the editorial boards for over ten
prominent journals in applied mathematics and dynamics. He served as
director of CIMMS, the Center for Integrative Multiscale Modeling and
Simulation at Caltech. He served as the founding Director of the Fields
Institute (1991-1994) and was a member of the Council of the American
Mathematical Society (1995-1998) and the SIAM Board of Trustees
(2005-2008).

Jerry was scheduled to receive The Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award from
the ASME-Applied Mechanics Division this coming November in Vancouver.
This award is given in recognition of an individual who has made
significant contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics through
practice, research, teaching, and/or outstanding leadership.  Jerry was
to receive it for fundamental contributions to the dynamical theory of
mechanical systems and inspirational work as an educator. ---
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