Professor Bona is a world-renowned expert in fluid mechanics. His
research interests include many aspects of nonlinear waves: theory of
nonlinear partial differential equations of the KdV type, numerical
solutions, modeling and applications.
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1971 and was Professor of
Mathematics at he University of Chicago from 1979 to 1986. In 1986 he
moved to Penn State where he became the Shibley Professor of Mathematics
and served as Department Chair. While at Penn State he helped set up one
of the few working fluid mechanics laboratories sited in a mathematics
department in North America. In 1995 he became CAM Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he helped start an
interdisciplinary program in computational and applied mathematics.
Currently, he is Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics,
and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Professor Bona has published over 100 research articles in pure and
applied mathematics. He serves on the editorial boards of 24
international journals. He was an invited speaker at the International
Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki (1978), and invited hour lecturer
at the American Mathematical Society Meeting in Minneapolis (1984) and San
Francisco (1995), and an invited speaker at the SIAM Annual Meeting in San
Diego (1989).
Professor Bona was elected Fellow of American Association for the
Advancement of Sciences in 1998.
Personal Homepage:
www.math.uic.edu/~bona
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