James Colliander

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James Colliander
Born	(1967-06-22) 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	Brian Pigott Geordie Richards Ian Zwiers
Known for	partial differential equations
Influences	Jean Bourgain Michael Christ Carlos Kenig Terence Tao
Notable awards	Sloan Fellowship (2003) McLean Award (2007)

James Ellis Colliander (born 22 June 1967) is an American Canadian mathematician. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at University of Toronto Department of Mathematics and Founder/CEO of an education technology company called Crowdmark. 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, the Institute for Advanced Study 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]

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Name	Colliander, James Ellis
Alternative names
Short description	American, Canadian mathematician
Date of birth	22 June 1967
Place of birth	El Paso, Texas, USA
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