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Prof. Hsiao honored with named chair

George Hsiao, Carl Rees Professor in Mathematics

1:17 p.m., Jan. 19, 2005--George Hsiao has been appointed Carl Rees Professor in Mathematics, effective Jan. 1, according to Provost Dan Rich. The professorship is in recognition of his notable record as a scholar and a teacher and his distinguished service to the University of Delaware and beyond.

Born in Shanghai, Hsiao is an engineering graduate of National Taiwan University. He received his master’s degree in civil engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology and his doctorate in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Hsiao’s education in dual disciplines has influenced his research interests, which include integral equations, partial differential equations, boundary elements, singular perturbation theory, elasticity and fluid dynamics, wavelets, direct and inverse problems in acoustic and electromagnetic scattering.

On his 60th birthday, two journals--Applicable Analysis and Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences--were dedicated to Hsiao. The editorial in the latter stated, “G.C. Hsiao is one of the few mathematicians who develop and apply modern mathematical analysis to the modeling of problems in mathematical physics and engineering and, moreover, based on sound mathematical analysis, design new efficient algorithms for the numerical solution and simulation of these problems on modern computers. This is a very wide range of interests and shows his extraordinary abilities.”

The author of more than 150 papers on mathematics and applied mechanics, oceanic environment, rheology and biomedical engineering, Hsiao has given invited lectures all over the world. He is the co-author of Maple Projects for Differential Equations, Water Waves and Ship Hydrodynamics: An Introduction, Boundary-field Equation Methods for a Class of Nonlinear Problems and editor of Analysis, Numerics and Applications of Differential and Integral Equations.

A visiting or guest professor on many occasions at the Universität Stuttgart and other institutions in Germany, Chile, Italy, China, Austria and Denmark, Hsiao also serves as an honorary professor at Yan-Tai University in China.

He has been awarded several research fellowships under the Research in Pairs program of Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach and also Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung fellowships for research in Germany.

Hsiao also served on the UD math team involved in the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for the U.S. Air Force Office of Science Research.

Recognized for his excellence as an educator, Hsiao received the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award in 1996 and the Outstanding Scholar Award in 2000. He also received the Francis Alison Award, the University’s top faculty award, in recognition of scholarship, professional achievement and dedication in 2000.

Article by Sue Moncure
Photo by Kevin Quinlan

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