Robert M. Miura
Robert M. Miura (born Sep 12, 1938) is a Distinguished Professor[1] of Mathematical Sciences and of Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, New Jersey. He was formerly a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Education
Miura received his BS (1960) and MS (1962) degrees from University of California, Berkeley. He earned his MA (1964) and PhD (1966) from Princeton University. Following his PhD, Dr Miura was a postdoctoral fellow at the Courant Institute at NYU.
Research
Dr. Miura's research has spanned many subjects in the mathematical sciences. His earliest contributions were on the topic of conservation laws for nonlinear wave equations. Dr. Miura discovered an inverse scattering transformation known as the Miura Transformation for analytically solving the modified Korteweg–de Vries equation. This work helped establish the theory of solitons.
Miura’s current research interests focus on developing mathematical models in neuroscience for cell dynamics. He works with biologists to help them understand how and why a type of depressed brain activity induced in animals spreads as a slow, pathological wave. Robert, along with collaborator Henry Tuckwell, formulated one of the first models of spreading depression using the continuum approach. In recent years, he has expanded on this work in order to understand not just ion, but also energy homeostasis in the brain.
Life
Miura spent 26 years at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, as a professor of mathematics. He joined NJIT in 2001. He is married to Kathryn Bannai and is a father of four children.
Honors
- Fellow of Royal Society of Canada (1995).[2]
- Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005).
- Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009).[3]
- Fellow of American Mathematical Society (2012).[4]
References
- ↑ http://www.njit.edu/news/2007/2007-298.php "NJIT : KUDOS-September 2007"
- ↑ http://www.rsc.ca/submitsearch.php?sFirstName=&sLastName=miura&sAcademy=&sAffiliation=&sElection=&btnSearch=Search 'Royal Society of Canada : Fellows Search Result'
- ↑ http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2009 'SIAM Fellows: Class of 2009'
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-02-06.
External links
- 1930s births
- Living people
- Vanderbilt University faculty
- University of British Columbia faculty
- University of Washington faculty
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Princeton University alumni, 1960–69
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Guggenheim Fellows
