Andrew J. Majda

Andrew J. Majda was the Samuel F.B. Morse Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Mathematics at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. At the Courant Institute, Majda was instrumental in setting up the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS) which aims to promote cross-disciplinary research with modern applied mathematics in climate modeling and prediction

As a mathematician, he is recognized for his contributions to partial differential equations and connections to numerous scientific problems. His early work dealt with linear hyperbolic equations and contributed to progress on singularity propagation, scattering theory, and inverse problems. His later work concentrated on shock waves and compressible flow, including seminal work on existence and stability of multi-dimensional shock waves. He contributed to the theory of incompressible fluids. Majda was a leader in applications of mathematical techniques to studies of atmospheric phenomena and an innovator in the use of stochastic analysis for problems in diffusion, convective transport, and metastability in atmospheric flows.