| James Colliander | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 June 1967 El Paso, Texas |
| Nationality | USA |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Doctoral advisor | Jean Bourgain |
| Doctoral students | Ian Zwiers Brian Pigott |
| Known for | partial differential equations |
| Influences | Jean Bourgain Mike Christ Carlos Kenig Terence Tao |
| Notable awards | Sloan Fellowship (2003) McLean Award (2007) |
James Ellis Colliander (born June 22, 1967) is an American Canadian mathematician. He is currently Professor of Mathematics, and Associate Chair of the University of Toronto Department of Mathematics. He was born in El Paso, Texas and lived there until age 8 and then moved to Hastings, Minnesota. He graduated from Macalester College in 1989. He worked for two years at the United States Naval Research Laboratory on fiber optic sensors and then went to graduate school to study mathematics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1997 and was advised by Jean Bourgain. Colliander was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and spent semesters at the University of Chicago and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute.
Colliander's research mostly addresses dynamical aspects of solutions of Hamiltonian partial differential equations, especially non-linear Schrödinger equation.[1] [2]
He is also an award winning teacher.[3]