Information

Membership Number: FCA2517

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences

Corresponding Email: ***och@umich.edu

Homepage(s): https://dept.math.lsa.umich.edu/~abloch/ 

Anthony M. Bloch is the Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan where he has served as graduate and department chair. He received a B.Sc.(Hons) in Applied Mathematics and Physics from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in 1978, an M. S.in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1979, an M. Phil in Control Theory and Operations Research from Cambridge University in1981 and a Ph. D in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1985.  His main research interests are in nonlinear dynamics, mechanics, and control. He has received various awards including a Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Simons Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society,  the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.  He was a Senior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study.  He was Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nonlinear Science as well as a Series Editor for Springer Publishing.

Present and Previous Positions

Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professor of Mathematics, the University of Michigan

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics, symplectic geometry, total positivity, stability, nonholonomic systems (the motion of mechanical systems with nonintegrable constraints), the relationship between continuous and discrete flows, nonlinear control and optimal control. Anthony Bloch also studies various other other topics in geometric mechanics and nonlinear dynamics including quantum dynamics and control.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

        2023-                     Invited Member, International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance

        2023-                     MURI Award, AFOSR

        2023-                     Distinguished Visiting Professor, ICMAT, Spain

        2023                      30th Annual Owens Lecture, Wayne State University

        2022-                     Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association

        2021-                     Member, Sigma Xi Honor Society

        2021-                     Life Fellow, IEEE

        2019                       Baillieul Distinguished Lecturer, University of Massachusetts

        2018-                     Book Series Editor, Springer Applied Mathematical Sciences

        2018-                     Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Nonlinear Science

        2015-2016             Simons Fellow

        2012-                     AMS Fellow

        2012-                     SIAM Fellow

        2012-2018             Editor-in-Chief, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization

        2010-2014             Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows

        2008                      AMS Invited Lecture

        2005-                    Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professorship

        2003-                    Fellow of the IEEE

        2002                     Senior Member of the IEEE

        1996-97                Guggenheim Fellowship

        1996-97                Membership in the Institute for Advanced Study, Term II

        1996                     University of Michigan LS&A Excellence in Research Award

        1996                     University of Michigan Faculty Recognition Award

        1995                     University of Michigan Advice Magazine Honors list, teaching

        1991-98                Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF)

        1986                     Horace H. Rackham Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan

        1979                     Elsie Ballot Scholarship, Cambridge University

        1978                     Convocation Scholarship; Unico Co. Gold Medal for the most distinguished Honors graduand in the Faculty of Science

        1978                     Awarded Fulbright Fellowship

        1977                     Freda Lawenski Scholarship; William Cullen Medal

        1976                     Herbert le May Prize for the best student majoring in Applied Mathematics

        1975-76                Robert Schlesin Memorial Scholarship

Grants

        2023-present       AFOSR MURI grant

        2017-present       AFOSR grant

        2014-2017           AFOSR MURI Grant

        2013-2017           National Science Foundation INSPIRE Grant

        1993-present      (Multiple) National Science Foundation Grants

        1992-99               Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant

        1991-98               Presidential Young Investigator Award (NSF)

        1990-91               Ohio State University Seed Grant

        1987-90               National Science Foundation/Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant

Editorial Services

Editor-in-Chief:  Book Series Editor, Springer Applied Mathematical Sciences (2018-); Journal of Nonlinear Science (2018-); SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2012-2018)

 Corresponding Ed: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2018-) 

 Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1993-96) Electronic Journal of Differential Equations (1993-2017) SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (1993-1999) Mathematics of Control, Signals and Systems (1997-) Journal of Nonlinear Science (2001-) (Senior Editor from 2017) Dynamical Systems (2002-2014) Systems and Control Letters (2002-2008) Elec. Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (2002-) Journal of Geometric Mechanics (2009-) Michigan Mathematical Journal (2014-) Communications in Mathematics (2014-) Associate Editor at Large: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1996-99)

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UraYxNcAAAAJ&hl=en 

Other Information

Detailed CV:  Bloch-vita.pdf