CURRICULUM VITAE
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt



Born: July 10, 1927, in Moscow, USSR

Education Positions Honours Honorary and
Special Lectures
Member of
Editorial Boards




Education
1950 Graduated from Moscow University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
1950-53 Postgraduate student, Moscow University, Faculty of Mechanics & Mathematics
1953 Ph.D., Moscow University, Scientific Advisor: A. N. Kolmogorov
1957 D.Sc, Moscow University
1962 Professor (title obtained at Moscow University)
1993 Master of Arts (title obtained at Cambridge University)
 
Positions
1953-61 Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist
  Institute of Petroleum, USSR Academy of Sciences
1961-75 Head, Department of Plasticity, Institute of Mechanics,
  Moscow University
1975-92 Head, Theoretical Department, Institute of Oceanology,
  USSR Academy of Sciences
1990 Visiting Professor, Université de Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie
1991 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications,
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1991 Visiting Scholar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
1992 Quatercentenary Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College,
  University of Cambridge, UK
1992 Visiting Professor, University of Rome `Tor Vergata'
1992 Adviser, Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
1992-94 G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, University of Cambridge
1994- Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, University of Cambridge
1993 BBV Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
1994 Hill Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1995 Visiting Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Physics,
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1995-96 Iberdrola Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
1996 Visiting Miller Research Professor, University of California at Berkeley
1996,97 S.P.Timoshenko Visiting Professor, Applied Mechanics Division of
  the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
1996,97 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
1997-2008 Mathematician, Dept. of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1997- Professor in Residence, Dept. of Mathematics,
  University of California at Berkeley
 
Honours
1975 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
1984 Foreign Member, Danish Center of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics
1988 Foreign Member, Polish Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics
1989 Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa at the
  Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
1993 Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society
1993 Member, Academia Europaea
1994 Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; (since 1999, Honorary Fellow)
1995 Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazzionale dei Lincei
1995 Modesto Panetti Prize and Gold Medal
1997 Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
1999 G.I. Taylor Medal, U.S. Society of Engineering Science
1999 J.C. Maxwell Medal and Prize, International Congress for Industrial
  and Applied Mathematics
2000 Foreign Member, Royal Society of London
2005 Doctor of Civil Engineering
  Honoris Causa at the Torino Polytechnic Institute, Italy
2005 S.P. Timoshenko Medal,
  American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2009 Honorary Fellow, International Congress on Fracture
 
Honorary and Special Lectures
Mar. 1989 12th G. I. Taylor Lecture, Cambridge, England
Apr. 1991 11th L.S.G. Kovasznay Lecture, Houston, Texas
May 1991 Second G. I. Taylor Lecture, Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 1991 Plenary Invited Lecture, Second International Congress on
  Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Washington, DC
Aug. 1992 Closing Lecture, XVIII International Congress on
  Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Haifa, Israel
Sept. 1992 Opening Lecture, Italian National Congress on Theoretical and
  Applied Mechanics, Trento, Italy
May 1993 Special Invited Lecture, Dutch National Symposium: Flows and Heat
  Exchange with Applications to Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
Sept. 1993 Plenary Invited Lecture, International Conference: Chaos, Order and
  Patterns. Aspects of Nonlinearity. The Grand Finale. Como, Italy
Sept. 1993 Opening Lecture, IUTAM Symposium: Fracture of Brittle
  Disordered Materials, Brisbane, Australia
Apr. 1995 Lagrange Lecture, Accademia Nazzionale dei Lincei, Rome
June 1997 Plenary Invited Lecture, International Meeting
  "Mathematical Aspects of Mechanics", Rome
Aug. 1997 Plenary Invited Lecture, International Symposium Saint-Venant, Paris
June 1998 Closing Lecture, International Symposium on Advances in
  Applied and Computational Mathematics, Berkeley, California.
Nov. 1998 Alan Tayler Lecture, Oxford University
Oct. 1999 G.I. Taylor Lecture, Society of Engineering Science, Austin, Texas
May 2000 First David Crighton Memorial Lecture, Santa Barbara, California
Nov. 2000 Plenary Invited Lecture, "Fluid Mechanics in XX Century",
  Fourth European Conference on Fluid Mechanics, Eindhoven, Holland
Dec. 2000 P. R. Sethna Lecture, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Apr. 2002 Shih-I Pai Lecture, University of Maryland, College Park
June 2003 Plenary Invited Lecture, International Conference,
  "Kolmogorov and Contemporary Mathematics", Moscow, Russia
June 2003 Plenary Invited Lecture, Interquadrial Conference,
  International Congress on Fracture, Moscow, Russia
Aug. 2004 Plenary Invited Lecture, 2nd International Conference on Combustion
  and Detonation: Zeldovich Memorial, Moscow, Russia
Mar. 2005 Plenary Invited Lecture, 11th International Congress on Fracture,
  11th International Congress on Fracture, Torino, Italy
May 2006 Timoshenko Lecture, Stanford University
June 2006 Plenary Invited Lecture, International Symposium,
  "Contemporary Problems of Analysis and Mathematical Physics",
  Taormina, Italy
Oct. 2006 Winston Chen Lecture, Harvard University
Mar. 2007 Invited Lecture, Irwin Centennial Conference, University of Maryland,
  College Park
May 2007 Invited Plenary Lecture, International Symposium on Mechanics of Materials:
  Perspectives and Recent Advances, University College Dublin
June 2007 Plenary Opening Lecture, International Conference:
  Non-Linear diffusion: Mathematics and Applications,
  El Escorial, Spain
July 2007 Plenary Opening Lecture, International Conference,
  "Mathematical aspects of Mechanics",
  dedicated to 80th birthday of G.I. Barenblatt,
  Naples, Italy
Sept. 2007 Harold J. Gay Lecture, Worchester Polytechnic Institute,
  Worchester, MA
May 2009 Plenary Invited Lecture, Symposium on Complex Fluids Flow,
  dedicated to 80th birthday of D.D. Joseph,
  Minneapolis, MN


Member of Editorial Boards
  • International Journal of Fracture
  • Journal of Engineering Mathematics
  • Strength, Fracture and Complexity
  • Physical Mesomechanics
  • Mechanics: Research Communications

 
Education Positions Honours Honorary and
Special Lectures
Member of
Editorial Boards


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