James Gilbert Glimm

He has achieved prominence for his work in a number of different fields of science: Hilbert space operators and functional analysis, partial differential equations, quantum field theory, applied mathematics, and computational fluid dynamics. Ove the past fifteen years, he has developed a program for the study of fluid instabilities and fluid mixing. Much of this work has been done in collaboration with scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This program has three essential aspects: novel numerical simulation of fluid mixing, and theoretical studies of fluid mixing. Over the past ten years, he has built and led a group at Stony Brook, which is internationally recognized for its work in this area. He has worked with collegues to develop docking and binding algorithms for protein DNA complexes, which predict binding specificity on the basis of the geometrical location of hydrogen bond donor and acceptor site locations.