报告题目：The beauty and usefulness of the complex plane

报 告 人：Professor A.S. Fokas

报告人所在单位：University of Cambridge

报告日期：2024年5月23日

报告时间：9:00 - 11:00

报告地点：光华楼东主楼 2201

报告摘要：The power of Complex Analysis will be illustrated using two different developments. First, the Unified Transform (also known as the Fokas method) will be reviewed, which is based on appropriate deformations of certain integrals from the real line to the complex plane. Second, recent unexpected results in the asymptotic analysis of the celebrated Riemann zeta function will be presented which are based on the combination of complex analysis and novel asymptotic techniques

个人简介：

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (California Institute of Technology)

• Inaugurated Chair of ‘Non-linear Sciences’ (2002), University of Cambridge, UK

• Member of the Academy of Athens (2004) and of all three major European Academies, including Academia Europaea

• Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society, 2000, Blaise Pascal Medal of the European Academy of Sciences (2023), 'for the Fokas method, which is considered the most important development in the solution of partial differential equations since the works of Fourier, Laplace and Cauchy'.

• Recipient of the SIAM's Kruskal Award/Lecture “for his contributions to the development of the inverse scattering transform, for his new method for boundary-value problems (Fokas method), and for his work on the asymptotics of the Riemann zeta function.'

• Awarded eight Honorary degrees According to research.com, 2024, he is in the list of 10 most cited UK mathematicians of all times. Also, he the most citied mathematician of all times of the University of Cambridge. 

• He has approximately 400 publication in a remarkably broad range of topics, in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering Biology, Medicine, Philosophy, and the Arts.He has authored or co-authored seven monographs and has co-edited eight books.