James Yorke#
| Membership Number: | 5102 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://yorke.umd.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- All of the following are at the University of Maryland College Park
- 2013 - present Distinguished University Research Professor
- 1995 - 2013 Distinguished University Professor
- 1973 - 2013 Professor
- 1969 - 1973 Research Associate Professor (IFDAM IPST)
- 1967 - 1969 Research Assistant Professor (IFDAM IPST)
- 1966 - 1967 Research Associate, (IFDAM IPST)
Fields of Scholarship
- Chaos
- Fractal structures in nonlinear dynamics, e.g. fractal basin boundaries, Wada basins
- Control of chaos
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Genome assembly (determining DNA sequences for species with large genomes)
- Data assimilation in meteorology
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Thompson Reuters Citations Laureate in Physics "For their description of a control theory of chaotic systems, the OGY method"
- 2014 Docteur Honoris Causa from Université du Havre, Le Havre, France
- 2014 Doctor Honoris Causa from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
- 2013 Recipient of the University of Maryland President’s Medal
- 2013 Fellow of the American Mathematics Association, appointed 2013
- 2013 Fellow of SIAM, appointed 2013
- 2011 SIAM’s Jurgen Moser Lecture/Award
- 2003 Japan Prize Laureate (shared with Benoit Mandelbrot); see http:www.japanprize.jp
. The Japan Prize for Science and Technology is a Japanese version of the Nobel Prize. One is awarded in medical science and one in the rest of science and technology. The Emperor of Japan presides over the awards ceremony
- 1980 Guggenheim fellow
