Eitan Tadmor

Biography

Eitan Tadmor is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he served as the Director of the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, 2002-2016, and the PI of NSF Kinetic Research network, 2012-2020. He held professorship positions at Tel-Aviv University, 1983-1995, and at UCLA, 1995-2002, where he was the founding co-director of the NSF Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), 1999-2001. In 2016-2017 he was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Studies at ETH-Zurich and the FSMP 2024-2025 Chair of excellence, hosted at the Sorbonne University. Tadmor gave a 2002 invited International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) address in Beijing, an invited Joint Mathematical Meeting address in 2014, a 2019 plenary ICIAM lecture in Valencia, and the 2022 American Mathematical Society (AMS) Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture. Tadmor’s primary research interests include the interplay between analytical theories and computational aspects of time-dependent problems, with applications to shock waves, kinetic transport, image processing and self-organized collective dynamics. He published more than two hundred research papers, and was listed on the ISI most cited researchers in Mathematics. Tadmor was awarded the SIAM-ETH Henrici prize in 2015, and the AMS-SIAM Norbert Wiener prize in Applied Mathematics in 2022. He is an AMS and SIAM Fellow, and a member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Science.