Celebratio Mathematica

Date of Birth: May 22, 1931

• 1952 B.A. Har­vard Col­lege, Ju­ni­or 8, summa cum laude in Math­em­at­ics
• 1954 M.A. Har­vard Uni­versity
• 1956 Ph.D. Har­vard Uni­versity

• 1956–58 In­struct­or Uni­versity of Chica­go
• 1958–60 NSF Postdoc­tor­al Fel­low & Mem­ber, Prin­ceton In­sti­tute for Ad­vanced Study
• 1960–62 As­sist­ant Pro­fess­or, Bran­de­is Uni­versity
• 1962–65 As­so­ci­ate Pro­fess­or, Bran­de­is Uni­versity
• 1965–2003 Pro­fess­or, Bran­de­is Uni­versity
• 2004–Ad­junct Pro­fess­or Uni­versity of Cali­for­nia at Irvine

• 1963–64 NSF Seni­or Postdoc­tor­al Fel­low & Mem­ber, Prin­ceton In­sti­tute for Ad­vanced Study
• 1965–67 Sloan Found­a­tion Re­search Fel­low
• 1966–68 Chair­man, Dept. of Math­em­at­ics, Bran­de­is Uni­versity
• 1965–82 Ed­it­or, The Journ­al of Dif­fer­en­tial Geo­metry
• 1966–69 Ed­it­or, Trans­ac­tions of the Amer­ic­an Math­em­at­ic­al So­ci­ety
• 1968–72 Mem­ber, NSF Ad­vis­ory Pan­el for Math­em­at­ics
• 1970 In­vited Speak­er, In­ter­na­tion­al Con­gress of Math­em­aticians, Nice
• 1971–81 Trust­ee, Amer­ic­an Math­em­at­ic­al So­ci­ety
• 1974 Con­ven­or of the Pan­el on Glob­al Ana­lys­is and Ana­lys­is on Man­i­folds, Hel­sinki In­ter­na­tion­al Con­gress of Math­em­aticians
• 1974–75 Mem­ber, Prin­ceton In­sti­tute for Ad­vanced Study
• 1976–78 Pro­fess­or, Univ. of Cal­if., SantaC­ruz (on leave from Bran­de­is)
• 1978–80 AMS Rep­res­ent­at­ive to CBMS
• 1979–83 Mem­ber, U.S. Com­mit­tee for Math­em­at­ics
• 1979 Found­ing Chair­man of TUG (TeX Users Group)
• 1980 Elec­ted Fel­low of AAAS
• 1981 In­vited Speak­er, US–China Sym­posi­um on Dif­fer­en­tial Geo­metry and Dif­fer­en­tial Equa­tions, Shang­hai-An­hui
• 1981–82 Gast­pro­fess­or, Uni­versit­at Bonn Mem­ber, Max-Planck-In­sti­tut fur Math­em­atik
• 1984–85 Mem­ber, Math­em­at­ic­al Sci­ences Re­search In­sti­tute, Berke­ley
• 1987 Vis­it­ing Pro­fess­or, Nankai In­sti­tute of Math­em­at­ics, Tianjin, China
• 1987 Chair­man, AMS Com­mit­tee on Com­mu­nic­a­tions
• 1988–89 Chair­man, AMS Com­mit­tee on the Elec­tron­ic Ex­change of In­form­a­tion
• 1990–95 Man­aging Ed­it­or, Bul­let­in of the AMS, Re­search Ex­pos­it­ory Pa­pers
• 1993–95 Chair of the AMS Com­mit­tee on Pub­lic­a­tion Policy
• 1996–97 Chair of the AAAS Sec­tion A (Math­em­at­ics)
• 2006 Awar­ded First Prize, with part­ner Luc Bénard, in NSF/Sci­ence Magazine 2006 Visu­al­iz­a­tion Chal­lenge
• Ed­it­or for Sur­veys and Re­search Ex­pos­it­ory Pa­pers, the Journ­al for Fixed Point The­ory and its Ap­plic­a­tions

For a com­plete list of Richard Pal­ais’ pub­lic­a­tions, see the “Works” page in this volume.