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[Richard P. McGehee]
Richard P. McGehee

Title: Director
Dates: 1994 -- present
Office: Geometry Center, Room 501
Phone: (612) 626-0888
E-mail: mcgehee@geom.umn.edu
Personal Homepage: http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~mcgehee/

Activities at the Geometry Center

Dick has been a participant in Center activities since its inception in 1991. He led a project on visualization of invariant sets in four dimensions during the academic year 1991-92, and he organized a workshop on invariant sets for symplectic maps in 1992. In May 1993 he was appointed to the Center faculty. He became Interim Director in February 1994 and was appointed Director in June 1994. As Director, he is responsible for the overall management of Center activities and for implementing and maintaining the supervisory, budgetary, and accounting systems necessary for the Center to carry out its mission and its programs. He works with the Board of Governors to set the scientific, technological, and educational directions for the Center.

Background

Dick has been at the University of Minnesota since 1970, when he joined the School of Mathematics as an assistant professor. He worked his way through the ranks, eventually becoming a professor in 1979. He served as department head from 1986 to 1990. His research area is dynamical systems, with particular emphasis on classical mechanics. He has held visiting positions at the Courant Institute, the University of Wisconsin, the Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute, the Mittag-Leffler Institute, the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics in Rio de Janeiro, the Unversity of Colorado, and the University of Paris. He has been active in health care issues, serving as Chair of the University Senate Health Plan Subcommittee.

Education

1969 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
1965 M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
1964 B.S., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

Professional Appointments

1979 -- present: Professor, University of Minnesota
1975 -- 1979: Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
1970 -- 1975: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Visiting Positions

1990 -- 1991: Ulam Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
1985: Professor, Instituto do Matem'atica Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro
1984: Professor, Institut Mittag-Leffler
1980 -- 1981: Professor, Forschungsinstitut f"ur Mathematik, ETH-Zentrum, Z"urich
1979: Professor, Mathematics Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1977: Associate Professor, Mathematics Research Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1976: Associate Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
1969 -- 1970: Postdoc, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Professional Activities

1994 -- present: Director, Geometry Center
1994 -- present: NSF--DMS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Evaluation Panel
1988 -- present: Editorial Board, Dynamics and Differential Equations
1986 -- 1990: Head, School of Mathematics
1986 -- present: Scientific Advisory Board, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1986: Panel for the Selection of Speakers for Section 12 of ICM86
1982 -- present: Editorial Board, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
1979 -- 1985: Consultant, CPT Corporation, Minneapolis

Selected Publications

  1. Singularities in classical celestial mechanics, Proc. of the Inter. Cong. of Math. Helsinki 1978, pp. 827-834.
  2. Competitive exclusion, with R. Armstrong, The American Naturalist 15 (1980), 151-170.
  3. Bifurcations from an invariant circle for two-parameter families of maps of the plane: a computer-assisted study, with D. G. Aronson, M. A. Chory, G. R. Hall, Comm. Math. Phys. 83 (1982), 304-354.
  4. Attractors for closed relations on compact Hausdorff spaces, Indiana U. Math. J. 41 (1992), 1165-1209.
  5. Resonance surfaces for forced oscillators, with B. Peckham, Experimental Math. 3 (1994), 223-244.

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