[Turkmath:7217] Re: Fw: Fwd: Jerry Marsden

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2010/9/30 Alp Eden <eden at boun.edu.tr>

> Degerli Liste Uyeleri,
>
> Mrsden'in oldugunu uzuntu ile ogrenmis bulunuyorum.
>
> Alp Eden
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message -----------
> 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.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
>
> ---------
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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. ---
> ------- End of Forwarded Message -------
>
>
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