Affidivation:

University of Illinois

NSF Directorate:

MPS

Gender:

M

Award Year:

2002

Citation:

For being a leading research mathematician whose work has contributed to understanding relationships between knot theory and dynamics. His research is also opening new research areas in topological hydrodynamics, the qualitative study of geometric patterns in fluid flow. He combines mentoring across the graduate and undergraduate student populations with an innovative "Mathematics Ambassador Lectures" outreach program within the Atlanta city public school system.