Scientific Director
Banff International Research Station
THE BANFF CENTRE
Corbett Hall, Suite 5110
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
Banff AB, Canada T1L 1H5
TEL: (403) 763-6999 FAX: (403) 763-6990

Professor
Department of Mathematics
Mathematics Annex, Rm 1214
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
TEL: (604) 822-6756
FAX: (604) 822-6074

Nassif Ghoussoub

Downloadable Scientific Reports
List of Research Papers
Selected Professional Contributions
Editorial Boards
Scientific Program Organization
Selected Invited Addresses
Highly Qualified Personnel
Other Writings

Nassif Ghoussoub obtained his Doctorat d'état in 1979 from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France and is currently a Professor of Mathematics and a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. His present research interests are in non-linear analysis, optimization and partial differential equations.

He was chair of NSERC's grant selection committee for mathematics in 1995-1996 and vice-president of the Canadian Mathematical Society from 1994 to 1996. He was editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Mathematics from 1993 to 2002 and is currently on the editorial board of various international journals.

He was the founding Director of PIMS (The 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 & Complex Systems) and a member of its Board of Directors for the period 1998-2003. He is also the founder of BIRS (Banff International Research Station) and was Chair of its executive committee for the period 2000-2003. He is currently the BIRS scientific director.

Academic Awards and Distinctions

Coxeter-James Prize, Canadian Mathematical Society (1990)
Killam Senior Research Fellowshiop, UBC (1992)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1993)
Distinguished University Scholar, UBC (2003)
Doctorat Honoris Causa, Université Paris-Dauphine (2004)
Jeffrey-Williams Prize, Canadian mathematical Society (2007)
Faculty of Science Achievement Award for outstanding service and leadership, UBC (2007)

Selected Professional Contributions

NSERC, Canada Council for the Arts: Member of NSERC grant selection committee 336 (1993-96), Chair of GSC 336/337 (1995-96), Founding member of the Math/NSERC Liaison Committee(1995-1996), Member of NSERC's re-allocations Mathematics steering committee (2000-02), CRC College of reviewers, Killam Selection Committee (2007-10).

PIMS: Founding Director of the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (1996-2003); Member of its Board of Directors; Chair of Scientific Review Panel.

MITACS: Founding member on Board of Directors of the MITACS network of Centers of Excellence: Mathematics of Information Technology & Complex Systems; Member of its Operations Committee; Steering Committee of its Board of Directors (1998-2003).

BIRS: Founding Chair of the executive committee for the Banff International Research Station (2001-03); BIRS scientific director (2004-2007).

Royal Society: Elected member (1994), Chair of the Synge Prize Committee, Member of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Committee of the Royal Society of Canada (2001-04).

UBC: Committee on Appointments (1990-91, 1993-95, 1997, 2000-02, 2003); Presidential Review Committee for Canada Research Chairs (2001-03); Dean's Head Selection Committee (1993, 2002); Re-appointment Committee for Dean of Graduate Studies (2002); Selection Committee for Director of the Wall Institute (2002-03); Executive Committee for Research, UBC (2004-06); Dean of Science Selection Committee (2005-06).

CMS, IMU, etc...: Vice-President of the Canadian Mathematical Society (1995-1997); Member of the publications committee (1991-1993); National Mathematics Coordinator for the 3 x 3 Canada-China Initiative; Member of Scientific Board of AARMS (Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences) Canada delegate to the International Mathematics Union (1998, 2002, 2006);Coordinator of IMSI (Association of International Mathematical Science Institutes) 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- )

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

AMS-CMS workshops on Partial differential equations: AMS-CMS meeting (Vancouver, 1993), AMS meeting (Claremont,1993), CMS (Victoria, 1997), CMS (Vancouver, 2000).
MITACS Annual General Meetings: Toronto (2000), Montréal (2001), Vancouver (2002).
Chair, PIMS PDE Thematic programmes, Variational Methods in Partial Differential Equations (2000), Asymptotic Geometric Analysis (2002).
President, Canada-China Mathematics Congress: Tsinghua (1999), Vancouver (2001).
President, Canada-France Congress, Montreal (2008).
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), First PRIMA Congress, Sydney, Australia (2009)

Selected Invited Addresses - Last 3 years

Conference on Variational and Viscosity methods in PDEs, Austin, Texas, 2002,
Optimal Transportation and Nonlinear Dynamics Workshop, PIMS-UBC, Vancouver, 2003,
Workshop on Calculus of Variations: Geometric Problems, Superconductivity, and Material Microstructures, Fields Institute, 2003,
Conference on HYperbolic and Kinetic Equations, Paris 2004,
Workshop on New developments on Variational Methods and their applications, Banff 2004,
Journée Thématique EDP Aix-Marseille, 2004,
Americas VI meeting on Non Linear Analysis and Differential Equations, Center for Mathematical Modeling, Santiago 2005,
Conference on "Variational Methods in Nonlinear Analysis" dedicated to Louis Nirenberg and Giovanni Prodi on their 80th birthday, Sicily, 2005,
Pacific Northwest Seminar, Vancouver, December 03, 2005,
Variational and Topological Methods in PDE, Guanajuato, Mexico, December 4-10, 2005,
CMS meeting, Victoria, BC, December 10-12, 2005,
Differential Equations, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 23-27, 2006,
Reaction-Diffusion, BIRS, Alberta, March 18-23, 2006,
Entropy, BIRS, Alberta, April 15-20, 2006,
Conference for K.C.Chang 70th birthday, Beijing, China, May 22-26, 2006,
Conference for D. Fortunato 60th birthday, Otranto, Italy, June 12-17, 2006,
Calculus of variations, Oberwolfach, Germany, July 9-15, 2006,
Conference for N. Dancer 60th birthday, U. New England, Armidale, Australia, July 16-21, 2006,
Geometric and Nonlinear Analysis, BIRS, Alberta, August 12 -17, 2006
Differential Equations and Differential Geometric Methods, Havana, Cuba, Feb. 18-24, 2007
Geometric evolution equations, Concordia, April 16-27, 2007
International Conference on Variational Methods, Tianjin, China, May 20-26, 2007
Jeffrey-Williams Prize Lecture, CMS-MITACS meeting, Winnipeg, June 2007
Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, SFU, July 18-21, 2007
Americas Conference in Differential Equations, Cartagena, Columbia, July 23-27, 2007
Loss of Compactness in nonlinear PDE, BIRS, Canada, August 26-31, 2007
Pacific Northwest Seminar, SFU, September 29th, 2007
Recent progress on nonlinear elliptic and parabolic problems and related abstract methods, BIRS, Canada, October 07-12, 2007
Calculus of variations in physics, geometry, and economics, CMS, London, Ontario, December 8-10, 2007
Canada-France Congress, Montreal, June 2-6, 2008

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	To proceed with PhD
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 Reza 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	PhD	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-...	Analysis	In Progress

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