Michael Weinstein, Ph.D.

Michael Weinstein did his undergraduate degree in mathematics, including a year at ETH-Zurich, at Union College (B.Sc. 1977). He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (1982) from the Courant Institute at New York University under the direction of George C. Papanicolaou, with a thesis on the stability of coherent structures and singularity formation described by nonlinear dispersive wave equations. Weinstein was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University (1982–1984) with Joseph B. Keller. From 1984 to 1988, he was assistant professor of mathematics at Princeton University. In 1988, he joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor as associate professor (1988–1992), and then full professor (1992–2000). Weinstein was a member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories / Lucent Technologies in the Fundamental Mathematics Research Group from 1998–2004. His interactions with theoretical and applied physicists at Bell Labs inspired a broadening of his work to the applied mathematical aspects of wave phenomena, most recently in field of quantum materials such as graphene. In 2004, Weinstein joined the faculty of Columbia University.

Weinstein is a SIAM Fellow (Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He was awarded the Martin Kruskal Prize by SIAM (2018) for his work on nonlinear waves and coherent structures. Weinstein has been a Simons Foundation Math + X Investigator since 2015.