CURRICULUM VITAE

GEORGE E. ANDREWS

Atherton Professor in Mathematics

Current Addresses

Office	Department of Mathematics
	306 McAllister Building
	The Pennsylvania State University
	University Park, PA 16802
	814-865-6642
	814-865-3735 (Fax)
	gea1@psu.edu
Home	119 Meadow Lane
	Centre Hall, PA 16828
	814-364-9982

Personal Information

Date of Birth

December 4, 1938

Place of Birth

Salem, Oregon, USA

Citizenship

USA

Education

• B.S. & M.A., Oregon State University, June, 1960. Thesis advisor: Helmut Groemer
• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, May 1964. Thesis advisor: Hans Rademacher

Employment

Member of the faculty, the Pennsylvania State University

• 1964-67 Assistant Professor
• 1967-70 Associate Professor
• 1970-81 Professor
• 1981- Evan Pugh Professor
• 2022 - Atherton Professor

Visiting Positions

Visiting Professor	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1970-71
Visiting Lecturer	University of Erlangen	1975
Visiting Professor	University of Wisconsin	1975-76
Visiting Lecturer	National University of Mexico	1977
Visiting Professor	University of New South Wales	1978-79
Visiting Lecturer	New Zealand Mathematical Society	1979
Adjunct Professor	University of Waterloo	1982-92
Visiting Scientist	Australian National University	1983
Visiting Professor	University of Strasbourg	1983
Visiting Ordway Professor	University of Minnesota	1988
Visiting Scientist	T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM	1990-91
Visiting Fellow	University of Melbourne	1997-98
Visiting Researcher	University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg	1998
Visiting Professor	Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria	1998
Visiting Research Fellow	School of Math. Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK	1998
Visiting Professor	University of Florida	2005-present

Selected Honors and Grants

• Fulbright Scholar, Cambridge University, 1960-61
• Invited one hour addresses at national American Mathematics Society-Mathematical Association of America meetings in 1972, 1977, 1993, and 1994
• Hedrick Lecturer, Mathematical Association of America, 1980
• Guggenheim Fellow, 1982-83
• CBMS Regional Conference Principal Lecturer, Arizona State University, 1985
• J.S. Frame Lecturer, 1993
• Allegheny Region Distinguished Teaching Award, Mathematical Association of America
• Invited Lectures, American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1987 and 1996
• Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
• Received extensive support from the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency
• Honorary Degree in Physics, University of Parma, May, 1998
• Meeting of the 42^nd Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire in honor of my 60^th birthday, at Maratea, Italy, September 1998
• Two day celebration of my 60^th birthday at Penn State (in conjunction with a regional AMS meeting), October, 1998
• Centennial Award from the Department of Mathematics, the University of Pennsylvania, "in recognition of contributions to pure mathematics and ... mathematical education," in October, 1999
• Honorary Degree, University of Florida, 2002
• Elected to National Academy of Sciences, 2003
• 65^th Birthday Conference at Penn State, April 2004
• Honorary Degree, University of Waterloo, 2004
• MAA Polya Lecturer, 2007-08 and 2008-09
• Elected President of AMS 2007
• Honorary Professorship, Nankai University, PRC, 2008
• 70^th Birthday Conference at Penn State, December 2008
• Selected Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009
• Fellow of the AMS, 2012
• Honorary Degree, SASTRA University (India), 2012
• Conference in honor of my 75th birthday, Centre for Combinatorics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 2013
• Honorary Doctorate, University of Illinois, 2014
• 80th Birthday Conference, Penn State University, 2018
• Elected to Sigma Xi, 2021
• Recipient of the Euler Medal 2022
• Listed by Academic Influence as one of the 36 mathematicians among "Top Influencial Mathematicians Today"
  

Research

My research centers on the theory of partitions and related areas. For a summary of my early research, please see The Work of George Andrews: A Madison Perspective by Richard Askey, paper B42b, Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire (electronic journal), 1999. Also see my Selected Works (With Commentary) Imperial College Press, 2013.

I have a long-term interest in the work of Ramanujan, the Indian genius, whose last notebook I unearthed in the Trinity College Library at Cambridge in 1976. I am collaborated with Bruce Berndt on a fivei-volume study of this 'Lost Notebook.' The first volume of this study appeared in June 2005; the second in January 2009, the third in 2012, and the fourth in 2013, and the last in 2018. In addition to more than 350 scientific papers, I have written books on number theory and the theory of partitions, as well as edited the collected papers of Percy A. MacMahon (see the attached bibliography). Currently I am working on q-series and on further aspects of partitions and their amazing relationship with Ramanujan's enigmatic identities.

Service

• Mathematics Department Chairman, 1980-1982 and 1995-1997.
• Associate Head for Faculty Development, Mathematics Department, 2006-2011. Reappointed 2012.
• Appointed Chairman, Mathematics Department Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2013.
• Appointed Chairman, Committee to Select Evan Pugh candidates from Eberly College of Science, 2015.
  
• Member, Mathematics Department Advisory, Undergraduate Studies, Scholarship, and MASS Advisory Committees.
• Member of Editorial Boards of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory (A), The Ramanujan Journal, Integers: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, Advances in Mathematics, the International Journal of Number Theory, The Mathematics Student, Research in Number Theory (new Springer Journal), and Contributions to Discrete Mathematics. Member of Editorial Advisory Board for CRC's Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae. Joint Managing Editor, Annals of Combinatorics. Member Consulting Editorial Board of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics and Advisory Committee, Journal of Indian Academy of Mathematics.  Senior Associate Editor, chapter on q-hypergeometric and related functions, NIST DIgital Library of Mathematical Functions.
  
• President, American Mathematical Society, 2009-2011.
• Chairman, AMS Initial Fellows Selection Committee, 2012-2013.
• Member, Simons Investigators in Mathematics Nominating Committee, 2012.
• Invited to serve on the Selection Committee for the 2014 Polya Prize.
• Invited to serve on the Scientific Advisory Committee (and be a speaker at) the 29th International Conference of the Jangjeon Mathematical Society at Pondicherry University, India, August 8-10, 2016.
• Invited to serve on the Invited Addresses Committee for MathFest 2017 (MAA).
  

Thesis advisor for 28 Ph.D. and 20 Masters degree recipients.

• Have taught courses at Penn State from the level of calculus to advanced topics for graduate students.
• Have lectured about mathematics in nearly every continent (except Antarctica).