Biographical Information

Anthony Bloch (PhD Harvard, 1985) received his B.Sc.(Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, M.S. from the California Institute of Technology in Physics, M.Phil. in Control Engineering and Operations Research from Cambridge University, and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. He has held various visiting and postdoctoral positions including positions at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Cornell University, The University of Michigan, and the Mathematical Science Research Institute at Berkeley. He has also been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Currently is the Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. His research interests include Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics, symplectic geometry, integrable systems, stability, nonholonomic systems, the relationship between continuous and discrete flows, nonlinear control and optimal control. He has served on several editorial boards, and presently is on the editorial boards of Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems; Dynamical Systems; Systems and Control Letters; the Journal of Nonlinear Science and the Journal of Geometric Mechanics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. He has received several other awards for research in mathematics, including the Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF, 1991-1998). He served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan (2005-2008).