Philip Holmes

Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University

Philip Holmes Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Applied and Computational Mathematics has been at Princeton since 1994. He directed the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics until 1997, and again in 2010-11.

Dr. Holmes is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and of the American Mathematical Society. He has held various positions including Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell (81-86); Chaire Aisenstadt at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Universite de Montreal (85-86); Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (88-89). In 2001 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Holmes is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and of the American Mathematical Society. He has held various positions including Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell (81-86); Chaire Aisenstadt at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Universite de Montreal (85-86); Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (88-89). In 2001 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Scientific, Distinguished Lecture
Hugh C. Morris Lecture: Philip Holmes (Princeton University)
November 1, 2013
University of British Columbia
Each day we make many choices, often under time pressure and with poor information. How do we do this? The basic electro-chemistry of individual neurons and synapses in our brains is fairly well understood. The key problem is one of scale: how do...