Gunther Uhlmann

Gunther Uhlmann received his Ph.D. in 1976 at MIT under the direction of Victor Guillemin. He held postdoctoral positions at Harvard, Courant Institute and MIT. In 1980 he became Assistant Professor at MIT and in 1985 he moved to the University of Washington as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1987.

Uhlmann was awarded the Annual National Prize of Venezuela in Mathematics in 1982. He received an Alfred P. Sloan Research fellowship in 1984 and a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in 2001. He has given numerous lectures throughout the world including an invited address at the Portland meeting of the AMS in 1991, the CBMS-NSF lectures on "Inverse Problems and Non-Destructive Evaluation" in 1995, an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998 and the PIMS Distinguished Lectures at UBC in 2002.

His current interest is inverse problems, in particular inverse boundary value problems and inverse scattering problems. In these problems, one attempts to determine internal parameters of a medium by making measurements at the boundary of the medium or by remote observations.

He was a member of the PIMS SRP from 2002-2007.