Romanian-American mathematician (born 1950)
Tudor Ratiu
Rațiu in 2013
Tudor Stefan Rațiu (born March 18, 1950) is a Romanian-American mathematician who has made contributions to geometric mechanics and dynamical systems theory .
Education
Rațiu was born in Timișoara .[ 1] His father, Mircea Ratiu, an engineer, was the younger brother of Ion Rațiu , a well-known Romanian politician, while his mother, Rodica Bucur, was a piano professor at the Conservatory of Music in Timișoara.[ 2] [ 3] Ratiu did his undergraduate studies at the Politehnica University of Timișoara , completing his B.Sc. in 1973 and his M.S. in 1974.[ 1] [ 4]
After moving to the United States, he completed his Ph.D. degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1980; his dissertation, written under the supervision of Jerrold E. Marsden , was titled Euler-Poisson Equations on Lie Algebras .[ 5]
Career
From 1980 to 1983 Ratiu was a T. H. Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan , after which he became an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona . In 1987 he moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz , where he became a Professor of Mathematics in 1988.[ 6]
In 1998 Ratiu moved to the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , where he was a professor until 2015.[ 4] In 2014–15, he was a Professor of Mathematics at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Russia. Since 2016 he is a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China .[ 4] [ 7]
Ratiu received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1980,[ 4] and he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.[ 8]
Publications
Abraham, Ralph ; Marsden, Jerrold E. ; Ratiu, Tudor (1988). Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications . Applied Mathematical Sciences. Vol. 75. New York: Springer Science+Business Media . doi :10.1007/978-1-4612-1029-0 . ISBN 978-0-387-96790-5 . MR 0960687 .
Gay-Balmaz, François; Ratiu, Tudor ; Tronci, Cesare (2013). "Equivalent theories of liquid crystal dynamics". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis . 210 (3): 773– 811. arXiv :1102.2918 . Bibcode :2013ArRMA.210..773G . doi :10.1007/s00205-013-0673-1 . MR 3116004 . S2CID 14968950 .
Holm, Darryl D.; Marsden, Jerrold E. ; Ratiu, Tudor (1998). "The Euler-Poincaré equations and semidirect products with applications to continuum theories". Advances in Mathematics . 137 (1): 1– 81. arXiv :chao-dyn/9801015 . doi :10.1006/aima.1998.1721 . MR 1627802 . S2CID 163598 .
Marsden, Jerrold E. ; Ratiu, Tudor (1999). Introduction to mechanics and symmetry. A basic exposition of classical mechanical systems . Texts in Applied Mathematics. Vol. 17 (Second ed.). New York: Springer-Verlag. doi :10.1007/978-0-387-21792-5 . ISBN 0-387-98643-X . MR 1723696 .
Ortega, Juan-Pablo; Ratiu, Tudor (2004). Momentum maps and Hamiltonian reduction . Progress in Mathematics. Vol. 222. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser . doi :10.1007/978-1-4757-3811-7 . ISBN 0-8176-4307-9 . MR 2021152 .
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