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D-Index
99
Citations
46289
World Ranking
48
National Ranking
34

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
  • 2013 - Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to partial differential equations and their physical applications.
  • 1994 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1990 - John von Neumann Lecturer
  • 1977 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Andrew J. Majda was affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in the United States. Their research spanned several disciplines, focusing predominantly on Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Physics and Astronomy. Subfields of study within these areas included Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The scientist contributed to topics such as climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, ocean waves and remote sensing, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, hydrology and drought analysis, and magnetic confinement fusion research.

Selected recent publications included:

  • Anomalous Waves Triggered by Abrupt Depth Changes: Laboratory Experiments and Truncated KdV Statistical Mechanics, 2020, Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • Predicting observed and hidden extreme events in complex nonlinear dynamical systems with partial observations and short training time series, 2020, Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • Efficient nonlinear optimal smoothing and sampling algorithms for complex turbulent nonlinear dynamical systems with partial observations, 2020, Journal of Computational Physics
  • ENSO Diversity in a Tropical Stochastic Skeleton Model for the MJO, El Niño, and Dynamic Walker Circulation, 2021, Journal of Climate
  • A Novel Method for Interpolating Daily Station Rainfall Data Using a Stochastic Lattice Model, 2020, Journal of Hydrometeorology

Frequent coauthors included Di Qi, Boualem Khouider, Nicholas J. Moore, C. Tyler Bolles, and Nan Chen.

Common publication venues featured the Journal of Nonlinear Science, Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, Journal of Climate, Journal of Computational Physics, and Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Over the course of their career, the scientist received multiple recognitions and awards:

  • Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research, 2016
  • Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
  • SIAM Fellow, 2009, for contributions to partial differential equations and their physical applications
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1994
  • John von Neumann Lecturer, 1990
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1977

Best Publications

  • Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Numerical Simulation of Waves

    Björn Engquist;Andrew Majda

  • Absorbing boundary conditions for the numerical simulation of waves

    Bjorn Engquist;Andrew Majda

  • Vorticity and incompressible flow

    Andrew J. Majda;Andrea L. Bertozzi

  • Compressible fluid flow and systems of conservation laws in several space variables

    Andrew Majda

  • Singular limits of quasilinear hyperbolic systems with large parameters and the incompressible limit of compressible fluids

    Sergiu Klainerman;Andrew Majda

  • Radiation boundary conditions for acoustic and elastic wave calculations

    Bjorn Engquist;Andrew Majda

  • Formation of strong fronts in the 2-D quasigeostrophic thermal active scalar

    P Constantin;A J Majda;E Tabak

  • Compressible and incompressible fluids

    Sergiu Klainerman;Andrew Majda

  • Oscillations and concentrations in weak solutions of the incompressible fluid equations

    Ronald J. DiPerna;Andrew J. Majda

  • SIMPLIFIED MODELS FOR TURBULENT DIFFUSION : THEORY, NUMERICAL MODELLING, AND PHYSICAL PHENOMENA

    Andrew J. Majda;Peter R. Kramer

  • Monotone difference approximations for scalar conservation laws

    Michael G. Crandall;Andrew Majda

  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistical Theories for Basic Geophysical Flows

    Andrew J. Majda;Xiaoming Wang

  • A mathematical framework for stochastic climate models

    Andrew J. Majda;Ilya Timofeyev;Eric Vanden Eijnden

  • Vortex methods. I. Convergence in three dimensions

    J. Thomas Beale;Andrew Majda

  • Vortex methods. II. Higher order accuracy in two and three dimensions

    J. Thomas Beale;Andrew Majda

  • Concentrations in regularizations for 2-D incompressible flow

    Ronald J. Diperna;Andrew J. Majda

  • The skeleton of tropical intraseasonal oscillations

    Andrew J. Majda;Samuel N. Stechmann

  • Geometric constraints on potentially singular solutions for the 3-D Euler equations

    Peter Constantin;Charles Fefferman;Andrew J. Majda

  • A simple one-dimensional model for the three-dimensional vorticity equation

    P. Constantin;P. D. Lax;A. Majda

  • A One-Dimensional Model for Dispersive Wave Turbulence

    A. J. Majda;D. W. McLaughlin;E. G. Tabak

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea L. Bertozzi
Andrea L. Bertozzi University of California, Los Angeles
Rupert Klein
Rupert Klein Freie Universität Berlin
Marco Avellaneda
Marco Avellaneda Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Christian Franzke
Christian Franzke Universität Hamburg
Panagiotis E. Souganidis
Panagiotis E. Souganidis University of Chicago
Duane E. Waliser
Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Lab
Richard Kleeman
Richard Kleeman Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
Eric Vanden-Eijnden Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Wojciech W. Grabowski
Wojciech W. Grabowski National Center for Atmospheric Research
Dargan M. W. Frierson
Dargan M. W. Frierson University of Washington

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