Dr. Gilbert Weinstein

Associate Professor
UAB Department of Mathematics


Email: weinstein at uab.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

 
Education


Ph.D. (Mathematics) Syracuse University (New York), 1989
       Ph.D. advisor: Demetrius Christodoulou
       Dissertation: On rotating black holes in equilibrium in general relativity
M.Ph. (Mathematics) Syracuse University (New York), (1988)
B.A.  (Mathematics) University of Haifa (Israel), 1984

Employment

1997-present, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
1991-1997, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
1990-1991, Visiting Member, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, N.Y.U.
1989-1990, Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Appointments

1997-98, Visitor, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
1992, Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
1988-89, Assistant Research Scientist, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, N.Y.U.
1988-89, Adjunct Lecturer, The Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York

Research Grants Received

2002-2005 US National Science Foundation DMS 0205545, PI
1997-2000 US National Science Foundation DMS 9704760, PI
1996 EPSCoR Visiting Scholar Award
1996 EPSCoR Travel Award for Research in Mathematics
1995 EPSCoR Visiting Scholar Award
1994-1996 US National Science Foundation DMS 9404523, PI
1994 EPSCoR Visiting Scholar Award
1994 UAB Faculty Research Grant, PI
1992 EPSCoR Travel Award for Research in Mathematics
1992 UAB Faculty Research Grant, PI
1990-91 US National Science Foundation DMS 8902702, co-PI (with R.~Schoen)

Professional Service

  • Co-organizer of Southeast Geometry Seminar, a semiannual series of one-day events hosted in rotation at UAB, GIT, and Emory.
  • Graduate Program Director, 2001-2002.
  • Co-organizer (with Rudi Weikard) of the 1999 UAB-GIT International Conference on Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, Birmingham, March 1999
  • Referee for Advances in Mathematics
  • Referee for Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Referee for the Journal of Mathematical Physics
  • Referee for the Proceedings of the minisemester on Mathematical Aspects of Theories of Gravitation, Banach Center
  • Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews
  • Co-organizer (with James Ward) of Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications at the AMS Southeast Regional Meeting in Chattanooga, TN, October 1996
  • Undergraduate Committee, Summer 1996-Spring 1997
  • Development and maintenance of WWW site, UAB Mathematics Department, Fall 1995-present
  • Mathematics Faculty Affairs Committee, Spring 1995-Spring 1997
  • Faculty Recruiting Committee, UAB Mathematics Department.
 
Research Field


General Relativity, Differential Geometry, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Selected Invited Addresses

  1. GR 17, Dublin Ireland, July 2004.
  2. Penrose Inequalities, The Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria, July 2003.
  3. 50 years of the Cauchy problem in General Relativity, Cargèse, Corsica,  July 29 - August 10, 2002.
  4. American Institute of Mathematics, May 2002.
  5. Minisemester on Mathematical Aspects of Theories of Gravitation, Stefan Banach International  Mathematical Center, Warsaw, Poland,  March 1996
  6.  Mathematics Colloquium, University of Toronto, Canada, April 1995
  7.  PDE Seminar, University of Michigan, January 1995
  8. Conference on Mathematical Relativity, Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, Austria, July 1994
  9. Special Session on Partial Differential Equations AMS meeting in Brooklyn, New York, April 1994
  10. Mean and Scalar Curvature Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, Fall 1992
  11. Analysis Seminar, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, N.Y.U., New York, Spring 1991
  12. Analysis Seminar, Princeton University, New Jersey, May 1989

Students Directed

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS DIRECTED
  1. Sharina Person, EPSCoR
  2. Brian Smith, EPSCoR
  3. Alabama Minority Participation (A.M.P.) Students, Summer1992 and Summer 1995

M.S. STUDENTS DIRECTED
  1. Brian Smith, M.S. (Non-Thesis) 1996

PH.D. STUDENT
  1. Brian Smith, 2001.


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