Penn State mathematician Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin named distinguished professor
Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, professor of mathematics, has been selected to receive the title of distinguished professor of mathematics in recognition of his exceptional record of teaching, research, and service to the University community. The honor is designated by the Office of the President of Penn State based on the recommendations of colleagues and the dean of the Eberly College of Science.
“Professor Jabin is a renowned mathematician who has made important contributions to both theoretical and applied fields of mathematics,” said Paul Milewski, head of the Department of Mathematics at Penn State. “His more than 100 scientific publications span an impressive breadth, from a deep understanding of randomness in fluid flows to the behavior of neural networks both biological and artificial. He is also an exceptional, thoughtful instructor who inspires and challenges students and has made exceptional contributions to the department’s graduate program, recruiting strong and diverse student cohorts”
Jabin is known for his work in partial differential equations and kinetic theory. He is particularly interested in the theory of transport and advection phenomena and in systems with many interacting particles or agents, which have applications in the fields of physics and biosciences.
His mathematical proof for a set of partial differential equations called the Navier–Stokes equations, which describe the motion of fluids, lays the theoretical basis for using these equations for a variety of practical applications, for example to describe solar events, geophysical flows, or biological phenomena. The resulting paper, published in the prestigious journal the Annals of Mathematics, was recognized with the Best Paper Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Partial Differential Equations. For this work, he was invited to speak at the at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro in 2018, a prestigious event that is widely regarded as a benchmark of mathematical excellence. This work was also the subject of a Bourbaki Seminar, where the most important results in mathematics are presented to the
community.
Jabin has published more than 100 scientific articles and has presented many invited talks on a wide variety of topics. He serves as editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis and serves on the editorial board of several other journals, including Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, Kinetic and Related Models, and Probability and Mathematical Physics. In 2022, he served as the Rothschild Distinguished Fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, Jabin was a professor at the University of Maryland, where he served as director of the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling. Jabin earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics in 1996, a master’s degree in mathematics in 1997 both from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, also known as the University of Paris VI, while a student of École Normale Supérieur. He earned a Ph.D. in 2000 and an HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in 2003 while at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI). Jabin was an assistant professor (agrégé-préparateur) at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris from 2000 to 2004. He then became a professor at the Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis in France from 2004 to 2011 and held a visiting faculty position at the Institute for Research in Informatics and Automatics in Sophia-Antipolis, France, from 2007 to 2011.