Edward Ott#
| Membership Number: | 5247 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1979 - present Professor, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
- 1968 - 1979 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, Cornell University
- 1967 - 1968 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- Plasma Physics
- Application of machine learning to nonlinear dynamics
- Chaos
- Critical behavior at dynamical transition points
- Emergent dynamics of large complex systems
- Nonlinear dynamics
- Controlling chaos
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize (from the American Physical Society) “For pioneering contributions in nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory that have been uniquely influential for physicists and scientists working in many fields.”
- 2016 Citation Laureate in Physics (with C. Grebogi and J.A. Yorke; from Thompson-Reuters) “For their development of a control theory of chaos.”
- 2017 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal (from the European Geosciences Union) “…for pioneering contributions in the theory of chaos with applications to …kinematic dynamos and … weather forecasting.… this highly original approach is widely used in operational weather prediction.”
- 2017 Jürgen Moser Lecture/Award (from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) “…for his extensive and influential contributions to nonlinear dynamics, including seminal work on chaos theory and on the dynamics of physical systems.”
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Fellow, IEEE
- Fellow, SIAM
