Dr. Castillo-Chavez is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Banff International Research Station and served as a member of the Society for Industrial andAppliedMathematics Council and Statistical andApplied Mathematical Sciences Institute Committee.
He has 12 honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982 and since 1979 has been at Cambridge University's Department of AppliedMathematicsand Theoretical Physics, where he is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics -- a post once held by Isaac Newton.
As he explained in an August 22 interview, in 2002 Spanos earned degrees in computational andappliedmathematicsand mechanical engineering at Rice University.
Age 16: Some friend gets him library copy of book titled A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure andAppliedMathematicsand was a collection of 5000 theorems.
He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the recipient of the 2007 AAAS Mentor award and a Fellow of Society for Industrial andAppliedMathematics.
The research mimics a clinical trial, but can be performed more quickly and without risk to real patients, says Kyle Myers, director of the Division of Imaging andAppliedMathematics at the FDA division.
Volozh co-founded several information technology companies prior to starting Yandex and he has a degree in appliedmathematics from the Gubkin Insitute of Oil and Gas.
Mr. Immelt joined GE in corporate marketing in 1982 after receiving a degree in appliedmathematics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard University.