Scientific Director
Banff International Research Station
THE BANFF CENTRE
Banff AB Canada T1L 1H5
TEL: (403) 763-6999 FAX: (403) 763-6990

Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2
TEL: (604) 822-1649 FAX: (604) 822-0883

Nassif Ghoussoub

Research Papers
Selected Professional Contributions
Highly Qualified Personnel
PIMS Collaborative Research Group in PDE 2008-2010

Nassif Ghoussoub obtained his Doctorat d'état in 1979 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France. His present research interests are in non-linear analysis and partial differential equations. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics, a "Distinguished University Scholar," and an elected member of the Board of Governors of the University of British Columbia for the period 2008-2011.

He was the founding Director of PIMS (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences) for the period 1996-2003, a co-founder of the MITACS Network of Centres of Excellence (Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems) and a member of its Board of Directors for the periods 1998-2003 and 2008-10. He is also the founder of BIRS (Banff International Research Station) and has been its Scientific Director since 2004.

He was Chair of NSERC's grant selection committee for mathematics in 1995-1996, and is currently serving on the Killam committee of the Canada Council for the Arts (2007-2010). He was vice-president of the Canadian Mathematical Society from 1994 to 1996, the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics from 1993 to 2002, the founding editor-in chief of the Pi in the Sky magazine, and is currently on the editorial board of various international journals.

Academic Awards and Distinctions

Faculty of Science Achievement Award for outstanding service and leadership, UBC (2007)
Jeffrey-Williams Prize, Canadian mathematical Society (2006)
Doctorat Honoris Causa, Université Paris-Dauphine (2004)
Distinguished University Scholar, UBC (2003)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1994)
Killam Senior Research Fellowship, UBC (1992)
Coxeter-James Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society (1990)

Selected Professional Contributions

Boards: UBC Board of Governors (2008-11); Board of Directors of British Columbia Medical Services Foundation (2008-11); Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, PIMS (1995-2003); Mathematics of Information Technology & Complex Systems network, MITACS (1999-2003 and 2008-10); Banff International Research Station, BIRS (2009-13); Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences, AARMS (2003-10); Canadian Mathematical Society, CMS (1994-96).

Granting Foundations: Killam Prize and Fellowships Selection Committee (2007-10); Member of the NSERC Grant Selection Committee 336/337 (1993-96), and Chair (1995-96); Math/NSERC Liaison Committee (1995-96 and 2008-10); NSERC's Re-allocations Mathematics Steering Committee (2000-02); Fermat Prize Committee (1993); CRC College of Reviewers; Reviewer for Dutch Technology Foundation; Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF); FONDACYT (Chile); RGC (Hong Kong); Comité d'évaluation - FQRNT (Québec).

Institutes Management: Founding Director of PIMS (1996-03); Co-founder of the MITACS network and member of its Steering Committee (1999-03); Founder of BIRS and its Scientific Director since 2004; Steering Committee of PRIMA (Pacific Rim Mathematical Association).

Royal Society of Canada: Elected member (1994); Chair of the Synge Prize Committee (2001-04), RSC Executive Committee for Math, Physics and Chemistry (2001-04).

University of British Columbia: Dean of Science Selection Committee (2005-06); Executive Committee for Research, UBC (2004-06); Selection Committee for Director of the Wall Institute (2002-03); Re- appointment Committee for Dean of Graduate Studies (2002); Presidential Review Committee for Canada Research Chairs (2001-03); Dean's Head Selection Committee (1993, 2002).

Other: Vice-President of the CMS (1994-96); National Mathematics Coordinator for the 3 x 3 Canada-China Initiative; Canada delegate to the International Mathematics Union (1998, 2002, 2006); Coordinator of Association of International Mathematical Science Institutes, IMSI (2006-2010).

Editorial Boards

Associate Editor: Annales de l'Université Paul Sabatier (1992 - 2003); Canadian Journal of Mathematics (1992-1994); Bulletin of the Canadian Mathematical Society (1992-1994); Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie Royale des Sciences du Canada; Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (2001- ); International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science (2006- ); The Open Mathematics Journal (OMAT) (2007- ); Advanced Nonlinear Studies (2010- ).

Editor-in-Chief: Canadian Journal of Mathematics (1994-2001); Co-founder: Pi in the Sky: a magazine (1999-2003); Founder: PIMS Magazine (1996-2003).

Scientific Program Organization - A Selection

Organizing Committee, First Congress of PRIMA, the Pacific Rim Mathematical Association, Sydney, Australia (2009).
Co-president, Second Canada-France Congress, Montréal (2008).
Chair, Organizing Committee for the First Canada-China Congress, Tsinghua (1999).
Chair, Organizing Committee for the Second Canada-China Congress, Vancouver (2001).
MITACS Annual General Meetings: Toronto (2000), Montréal (2001), Vancouver (2002).
Chair of Scientific Committee for the PIMS Thematic Programmes: Variational Methods in Partial Differential Equations (2000), Asymptotic Geometric Analysis (2002), Partial Differential Equations and Applications (2009).
AMS-CMS workshops on Partial Differential Equations: AMS-CMS meeting (Vancouver, 1993), AMS meeting (Claremont,1993), CMS (Victoria, 1997), CMS (Vancouver, 2000).
Other: John Charles Fields Legacy Symposium, Toronto (2000), Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute, Santiago (2003), "Renaissance Banff Conference": Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, Banff (2005), PASI-2007 and Americas Conference in Differential Equations, Cartagena, Columbia (2007).

Graduate and Post-graduate Supervision

Name	Level	Period	Research Topic	Current State
Krishna Padayachee	MSc	1981	Choquet Theory
David Hare	PhD	1984-87	Differentiability in Banach spaces	Waterloo Maple
Valerie Tardivel	PDF	1990	Harmonic Analysis	Université de Paris
Julien Burdeau	PDF	1993	Borderline problems	Corps Ponts & Chaussées
David Robinson	MSc.	1991-1993	Non-compact Variational Problems	Waterloo Maple
Guancai Fang	PhD	1990-1994	Critical Point Theory	PDF, Courant Inst., 1994-1996
Hossein Tehrani	PDF	1994-1997	Semi-linear elliptic equations	Asst. Prof., U. Nevada, LV
Yuan Chaogui	PhD	1993-1998	p-Laplacian/critical exponents	Financial Industry, Toronto, CA
Meijun Zhu	PDF	1996-1998	Non-linear Liouville theorems	Prof., U. Oklahoma
Guancai Fang	PDF	1996-1998	Equivariant critical point theory	Comp. Science, BC
Philippe Bolle	PDF	1997-1998	Non-homogenous BVP	Professeur, Avignon
Christine Chambers	MSc.	1998-2000	Perturbations from symmetry	PhD student UBC
Ji-guang Bao	PDF	2000-2001	Monge-Ampére equations	Prof. & Dean, Beijing Normal U.
Th. Kolokolnikov	PhD	2001-2002	Generalized DeGiorgi's conjecture	Transfered
Xiaosong Kang	PhD	1999-2003	Equations with critical singularities	Ass. Prof., Wuhan U., China
Leo Tzou	MSc.	2002-2003	Gradient flows as steepest descent	Szego Ass. Prof., Stanford
Martial Agueh	PDF	2002-2004	Mass Transport and applications	Ass. Prof., U. Victoria
Mohammed Pakzad	PDF	2003-2005	Harmonic maps, Ginsburg-Landau	Ass. Prof., Pittsburgh
David Hasler	PDF	2003-2005	Spectral Theory	U. Virginia
Abbas Maomeni	PDF	2004-2007	Nonlinear evolution equations	Coleman PDF, Queens
Pierpaolo Esposito	PDF	2005-2006	Perturbative methods in PDE	Roma III
Daniele Cassani	PDF	2006-2007	Hamiltonian systems of PDEs	U. di Milano
Joao Marcos Bezerra do O	PDF	2006-2007	Elliptic systems	Campinas, Brazil
Christine Chambers	PhD	2000-2005	The Heisenberg Laplacian	Transfered
Yujin Guo	PhD	2003-2007	PDEs of MEMS devices	Dunham Jackson Ass. Prof., Minnesota
Jason Donaldson	MSc	2005-2007	Selfduality in Geometry	PhD program, USC
Amir Moradifam	PhD	2006-...	Nonlinear PDEs	In Progress
Craig Cowan	PhD	2006-...	Variational methods	In Progress
Ramon Zarate Saiz	PhD	2006-...	Inverse problems	In Progress
Stephane Kirsh	PDF	2007-09	Mean curvature and interfaces	PIMS-Postdoc
Mohammed El Smaily	PDF	2008-09	Traveling fronts	PIMS-Postdoc
Mostafa Fazly	PhD	2008-...	Pulsating traveling fronts for systems	In Progress
Felipe Garcia Ramos	MSc	2008-...	Mass transport & Geometric inequalities	In Progress
Walid K. Abou Salem	PDF	2009-10	PDEs and mathematical physics	UBC-Postdoc

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