Degrees:

AB 1952

University of Chicago

MA 1953(advisor: M. Rosskopf)

Columbia University Teachers College

MS 1954 (advisor: P.D. Lax)

New York University

PhD 1959 (advisor: K.O. Friedrichs)

New York University

Personal data:

born: 1935 in New York, NY [US citizen]
married: 1969 to Marjorie J. Shriro [one child: Gregory, born 1975]

Academic employment:

1960-61

U.C.L.A. (lecturer)

1964-67

Wayne State Univ. (Assoc. Prof.)

1967-72

Carnegie-Mellon Univ. (Assoc. Prof.)

1972-

UMBC (Assoc. Prof. / Prof.)

1992

UMBC (Acting Chairman, Dept. of Math. and Stat.)

1980-81

Univ. de Nice (Visiting Prof.)

short term appointments

U. C. Berkeley; Australian Natl. Univ. (CMA); Univ. of Jyväskylä; Univ. de Bordeaux, I; Univ. de Paris-Sud (Orsay), Univ. Sao Paulo.

Nonacademic employment:

1953-55

A.E.C. Computing Facility, NYU (programmer)

1955-58

Inst. Math. Sci., NYU (research assistant)

1958-60

Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (Livermore)

1961-62

Math. Research Ctr. (U. Wisc.)

1962-64

Boeing (BSRL)

short term

Lincoln Lab. (M.I.T.); Westinghouse R. &D. Center; INRIA.

Refereeing:

NSF, AFOSR;
SIAM J. Control/Optim., SIAM J. Appl. Math., SIAM J. Matrix Anal./Appl., J. Diff. Equations, Comm. PDE, IEEE Trans. AC, Proc. AMS, Math. Control Systems Sci., Inverse Problems, J. Math. Anal. Appl., Nonlin. Anal. - TMA, Systems Control Ltrs., Ann. Appl. Prob., Q. Appl. Math. etc.

Editorial:

Assoc. Editor: SIAM J. Control and Optimization (1994--1996)
Editor: Hysteresis E-Letter (1993--1996).
Editorial Board: International J. Hybrid Systems (2001--2006)
Editorial Board: Nonlinear Analysis: Series A Theory and Methods (2002--2006)
Editorial Board: International J. Evolution Equations (2004--)

Publications

Invited speaker:

at numerous universities as well as national and international conferences - in control theory, semiconductor modeling, inverse problems, partial differential equations, optimization and nonlinear analysis, dynamics of hybrid systems, etc.