Florin DIACU
Professor, UVic-Site Director of the Pacific Institute for the
Mathematical Sciences (1999-2002)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 3045 STN CSC
Victoria, B.C., V8W 3P4, Canada
Tel: +(250) 721 63 30
Fax:.+(250) 721 89 62
E-mail: diacu@math.uvic.ca, pimsdir@uvic.ca
http://www.math.uvic.ca/pims/
1. Born in: Sibiu, Romania, 24.04.1959
2. Studies: Diploma in Mathematics, University of Bucharest,
Bucharest, Romania, 1983 Doctor rerum naturarium (Ph.D. in Mathematics), Ruprecht-Karl
University, Heidelberg, Germany, 1989.
3. Left Romania in: 1988
4. Some personal data: Married, one boy, Razvan.
5. Relatives still living in Romania: Yes
6. The most important works: F.Diacu. Regularization of partial
collisions in the N-body problem, Differential and Integral Equations 5 (1992),
103-136. F.Diacu. Near-collision dynamics for particle systems with quasihomogeneous
potentials, Journal of Differential Equations 128 (1996), 58-77. F.Diacu,
A. Mingarelli, V. Mioc, and C. Stoica. The Manev two-body problem: quantitative
and qualitative theory, in Dynamical Systems and Applications, World Scientific
Series in Applicable Analysis, R. J. Agarwal (ed.), pp. 213-227, World Scientific,
Singapore, 1995. J. Delgado, F.Diacu, F.N. Lacomba, A. Mingarelli, V. Mioc,
E. Perez, and C. Stoica. The global flow of the Manev problem, Journal of
Mathematical Physics 37 (1996), 2748-2761. F.Diacu and D. Selaru. Chaos in
the Gylden problem, Journal of Mathematical Physics 39 (1998), 6537-6546.
F.Diacu, V. Mioc, and C.Stoica. Phase-space structure and regularization
of Manev-type problems, Nonlinear Analysis (to appear). F.Diacu. Singularities
of the N-Body Problem - An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics, Les Publications
CRM, Montreal, 1992. F.Diacu and P. Holmes. Celestial Encounters - The Origins
of Chaos and Stability, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey,
1996. (This book was translated into Romanian (1996) and Chinese (1999).
It received two awards: "Outstanding Academic Book", by Choice Magazine and
it was one of best nonfiction books of 1997 for The American Reporter Book
Review.) F.Diacu. Order and Chaos - An Introduction to Differential Equations,
W.H.Freeman & Co. (will appear in 2000). H.Cabral and F.Diacu. The Recife
Lectures in Celestial Mechanics (in preparation - contract signed with Princeton
University Press).
7. Scientific membership: Member of the Mathematics-Computer-Science
NSERC Scholarships and Memberships Committee (1996-2002); Chair of the Mathematics-Computer-Science
NSERC Scholarships and Memberships Committee (2000-2001); American-Romanian
Academy of Arts and Sciences; Canadian Mathematical Society; American Mathematical
Society; Mathematical Association of America.
8. Other information: Major Awards: The 1996 Prize of the American
Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences (from the prize citation:) "in recognition
of his outstanding scholarly contributions to the modern theory of dynamical
systems."
