Catherine Sulem

Catherine Sulem FRSC is a mathematician and violinist at the University of Toronto.

Sulem was born in Birmandreis, Algeria and grew up in Nice. She received a Doctorat d'Etat from the Université de Paris-Nord in 1983 and held a CNRS position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris before coming to the University of Toronto in 1990. Professor Sulem works in nonlinear partial differential equations arising in physics. Her work uses both analytic and numerical methods and has contributed to our understanding of singularities in models of wave propagation. She has recently completed a monograph Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Self-Focusing Instability and Wave Collapse together with her brother Pierre-Louis Sulem, to appear in the Springer series, Applied Mathematical Sciences. Catherine Sulem is also an accomplished musician. She received a Premier Prix de Violon du Conservatoire de Paris in 1975, and was principal violinist with the Israel Sinfonietta from 1982 to 1987.^[1]

She has completed a monograph "Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation: Self-Focusing Instability and Wave Collapse" together with her brother Pierre-Louis Sulem, which appears in applied Mathematical Sciences.^[2]

Awards and honours

Sulem is the winner of the fourth Krieger–Nelson Prize, for "important breakthroughs in understanding of many nonlinear phenomena associated with the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the water wave problem".^[1] She is also a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[3] In 2015, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. ^[4]

Violinist

Violinist Catherine Sulem studied at the Conservatoire de Nice and later went on to Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris, where she obtained a Premier Prix in violin and chamber music in the classes of Roland Charmy and Jean Hubeau. She has played many recitals in France, Germany, Israel and Canada, and performed concertos with the French Radio Orchestras and the Israel Sinfonietta, with whom she played as principal first violin for five years. Since her arrival in Toronto in 1990, she has performed in various chamber music groups and local orchestras. She is a member of a string quartet, featuring violinists Catherine Sulem and Gretchen Paxson-Abberger, violist Elizabeth Morris and cellist Michelle Kyle, which performs in several Birthday Series concerts each season, and for preview concerts in retirement homes.^[5][6]

Selected publications

Books

• Sulem, Catherine; Sulem, Pierre-Louis (1999), The nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Self-focusing and wave collapse, Applied Mathematical Sciences, 139, Springer-Verlag, New York, ISBN 0-387-98611-1, MR 1696311 .

Research articles

• Sulem, Catherine; Sulem, Pierre-Louis; Frisch, Hélène (1983), "Tracing complex singularities with spectral methods", Journal of Computational Physics, 50 (1): 138–161, MR 702063, doi:10.1016/0021-9991(83)90045-1 .
• Sulem, P.-L.; Sulem, C.; Bardos, C. (1986), "On the continuous limit for a system of classical spins", Communications in Mathematical Physics, 107 (3): 431–454, MR 866199, doi:10.1007/bf01220998 .
• Craig, W.; Sulem, C. (1993), "Numerical simulation of gravity waves", Journal of Computational Physics, 108 (1): 73–83, MR 1239970, doi:10.1006/jcph.1993.1164 .
• Buslaev, Vladimir S.; Sulem, Catherine (2003), "On asymptotic stability of solitary waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equations", Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, 20 (3): 419–475, MR 1972870, doi:10.1016/S0294-1449(02)00018-5 .
• Craig, W.; Guyenne, P.; Hammack, J.; Henderson, D.; Sulem, C. (2006), "Solitary water wave interactions", Physics of Fluids, 18 (5): 057106, 25, MR 2259317, doi:10.1063/1.2205916 .

References

External links

• Professor of Mathematics, University of Toronto
• List of Publications