Mathematics Professor John Benedetto Named Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
John Benedetto, professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, has been named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for “for contributions to applied harmonic analysis, especially sampling theory and frames theory.” He joins nine other faculty members of the University of Maryland's College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences who are SIAM Fellows.
Benedetto, who is director of the Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications, is a leading researcher in wavelet analysis. In 2006, the book “Harmonic Analysis and Applications: In Honor of John J. Benedetto,” edited by Christopher Heil and published by Springer, cited Benedetto as having a “profound influence not only on the direction of harmonic analysis and its applications, but also on the entire community of people involved in the field.”
Benedetto earned his B.A. in mathematics from Boston College in 1960, his M.A. from Harvard University in 1962 and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1964. He is executive editor and founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, and is the editor of Birkhauser's Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis book series. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher. Benedetto has advised 55 Ph.D. students and currently advises three more.
The SIAM fellows program recognizes members of the community for their distinguished contributions to the disciplines of applied mathematics, computational science and related fields.
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