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George Papanicolaou

George Papanicolaou

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Mathematics

D-Index
77
Citations
30480
World Ranking
178
National Ranking
104

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2009 - SIAM Fellow For advances in analysis and computation for random media.
  • 2006 - John von Neumann Lecturer
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

George Papanicolaou was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. The research spanned areas primarily within Physics and Astronomy, with notable exploration in subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Finance, Statistics and Probability, Economics and Econometrics, and Physiology.

Their published work covered topics such as Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Random Matrices and Applications, Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, Asthma and respiratory diseases, Random lasers and scattering media, Quantum optics and atomic interactions, and Optical and Acousto-Optic Technologies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by George Papanicolaou included:

  • Principal Eigenportfolios for U.S. Equities (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Replication and fine mapping of asthma-associated loci in individuals of African ancestry (2020), published via UNC Libraries
  • Genome-wide Comparison of African-Ancestry Populations from CARe and Other Cohorts Reveals Signals of Natural Selection (2020), published via UNC Libraries
  • Statistical Arbitrage in Rank Space (2024), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Super-resolution in disordered media using neural networks (2024), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in their work included Samuela Pollack, Marco Avellaneda, Brian C. Healy, Andrew C. Papanicolaou, and David B. Kantor.

Frequent publication venues associated with George Papanicolaou included UNC Libraries, arXiv (Cornell University), and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Throughout their career, they received several recognitions including being named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013, SIAM Fellow in 2009 for advances in analysis and computation for random media, John von Neumann Lecturer in 2006, membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, and Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1983.

Best Publications

  • Asymptotic analysis for periodic structures

    Alain Bensoussan;Alain Bensoussan;Jacques Louis Lions;George Papanicolaou

  • Derivatives in Financial Markets with Stochastic Volatility

    Jean-Pierre Fouque;George Papanicolaou;K. Ronnie Sircar

  • Transport equations for elastic and other waves in random media

    Leonid Ryzhik;George Papanicolaou;Joseph B. Keller

  • Asymptotic Analysis of Periodic Structures

    Alain Bensoussan;Jacques-Louis Lions;George Papanicolaou;T. K. Caughey

  • Nonlinear diffusion limit for a system with nearest neighbor interactions

    M. Z. Guo;G. C. Papanicolaou;S. R. S. Varadhan

  • Wave Propagation and Time Reversal in Randomly Layered Media

    Jean-Pierre Fouque;Josselin Garnier;George Papanicolaou;Knut Sølna

  • Super-resolution in time-reversal acoustics

    Peter Blomgren;George Papanicolaou;Hongkai Zhao

  • Asymptotic theory of mixing stochastic ordinary differential equations

    G. C. Papanicolaou;W. Kohler

  • Martingale approach to some limit theorems

    G. Papanicolaou

  • Effective equations for wave propagation in bubbly liquids

    Russel E. Caflisch;Michael J. Miksis;George C. Papanicolaou;Lu Ting

  • Imaging and time reversal in random media

    Liliana Borcea;George Papanicolaou;Chrysoula Tsogka;James Berryman

  • Boundary Layers and Homogenization of Transport Processes

    Alain Bensoussan;Jacques L. Lions;George C. Papanicolaou

  • Multiscale Stochastic Volatility for Equity, Interest Rate, and Credit Derivatives

    Jean-Pierre Fouque;George Papanicolaou;Ronnie Sircar;Knut Sølna

  • Bounds for effective parameters of heterogeneous media by analytic continuation

    K. Golden;G. Papanicolaou

  • Self-focusing in the perturbed and unperturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation in critical dimension

    Gadi Fibich;George Papanicolaou

  • SELF-FOCUSING WITH FOURTH-ORDER DISPERSION

    Boaz Ilan;Gadi Fibich;George Papanicolaou

  • Rate of blowup for solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation at critical dimension.

    MJ Landman;GC Papanicolaou;C Sulem;PL Sulem

  • Array imaging using intensity-only measurements

    Anwei Chai;Miguel Moscoso;George Papanicolaou

  • Convection enhanced diffusion for periodic flow

    Albert Fannjiang;George Papanicolaou

  • Adaptive covariance estimation of locally stationary processes

    Stéphane Mallat;George Papanicolaou;Zhifeng Zhang

  • Multiscale Stochastic Volatility Asymptotics

    Jean Pierre Fouque;George Papanicolaou;Ronnie Sircar;Knut Solna

Frequent Co-Authors

Josselin Garnier
Josselin Garnier École Polytechnique
Jean-Pierre Fouque
Jean-Pierre Fouque University of California, Santa Barbara
Ronnie Sircar
Ronnie Sircar Princeton University
Ping Sheng
Ping Sheng Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
James G. Berryman
James G. Berryman Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joseph B. Keller
Joseph B. Keller Stanford University
David W. McLaughlin
David W. McLaughlin Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Alain Bensoussan
Alain Bensoussan The University of Texas at Dallas
Guillaume Bal
Guillaume Bal University of Chicago
Catherine Sulem
Catherine Sulem University of Toronto

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