Eitan Tadmor – 50

Professor Eitan Tadmor turned 50 earlier this year. He is one of the most active and influential mathematicians in the area of numerical analysis, general theory of applied PDEs, and scientific computing. He has influenced the field of applied mathematics in many ways: through his deep and broad mathematical research, his strong efforts in advising, training, and mentoring young scientists, and active participation in the scientific life of the international mathematical community by holding important administrative positions and serving on editorial boards of leading mathematical journals. The aim of this article is to briefly summarize some of his major scientific achievements and his contributions to various branches of the field of mathematics. Eitan Tadmor did his both undergraduate and graduate studies at the Tel Aviv University in Israel.rently, Eitan Tadmor is at the University of Maryland where he holds a position of a director of the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM) and also professor positions at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) and at the Department of Mathematics. During his fruitful career, Eitan Tadmor has had many scientific collaborators (among them are G.-Q. and other excellent scientists), graduate students (among them are and post-docs. Eitan also actively serves the mathematical community by being an editor in several leading journals in applied and computational mathematics, including SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Numerische Mathematik, M 2 AN Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis, Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, and others. One of Tadmor's biggest administrative achievements was a successful bid of UCLA for the site of the third national NSF institute for mathematical research — Institute for Pure and Allied Mathematics (IPAM), where he served as a director in the period 2000–2001.