CURRICULUM VITAE

GEORGE E. ANDREWS

Current Addresses

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
• 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

Visiting Positions

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, & 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
• Continuously supported by the National Science Foundation grants program. Current grant is Number Theory and Combinatorics, which expires in 2008
• Honorary Degree in Physics, University of Parma, May, 1998
• Invited participant, debate on teaching of first year university mathematics, International Conference of Mathematicians, Berlin, August 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

Research

For a summary of my research, please see The Work of George Andrews: A Madison Perspective by Richard Askey, paper B42b, Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire (electronic journal).

My research centers on the theory of partitions and related areas. 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 collaborating with Bruce Berndt on a multi-volume study of this 'Lost Notebook.' The first volume of this study appeared in June 2005. In addition, I have written more than 250 scientific papers, and several 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 reviving MacMahon's Partition Analysis, collaborating on further applications of partitions to statistical mechanics and computer science, and completing my study of the relationship between Ramanujan's enigmatic identities and entire functions.

Service

• Department Chairman, 1980-1982 and 1995-1997
• Associate Chair for Faculty Development 2006-
• Member, Mathematics Department Advisory, Policy, Undergraduate Studies, and MASS Advisory Committees
• Former Chairman, Undergraduate Studies and Headship Search Committees (2005-2006)
• Co-Chairman, Evan Pugh Council
• Former organizer, department Teaching Seminar
• Former Chairman, Eberly College of Science Faculty Giving
• Past member, numerous University Committees, including Tuition and Presidential Selection Committees
• Member of Editorial Boards of Discrete Mathematics, the Journal of Combinatorial Theory (A), The Ramanujan Journal, and the new journal Integers: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorial Number Theory, the Proceedings of the Jangjeon Mathematical Society, Advanced Studies in Contemporary Mathematics, the Acharya Nagarjuna International Journal of Mathematics and Information Technology, the new Quarterly Journal of Computational Combinatorics, and the new International Journal of Number Theory. Editorial Advisory Board for 31^st edition of CRC's Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae. Managing Editor, Annals of Combinatorics. Member, Advisory Committee of the Journal of the Indian Academy of Mathematics. Managing Editor, Annals of Combinatorics.
• President-Elect, American Mathemtical Society
• Editor, American Mathematical Society's Contemporary Mathematics Editorial Committee (until 2012)
• Former member, American Mathematical Society's Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, and History of Mathematics Editorial Committees
• Former elected member of AMS Editorial Board Committee
• Former member, AMS-MAA-SIAM Committee on the Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student (Chair during 1999)
• Member, International Advisory Board of the C. R. Rao Advanced Institute for Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS), Osmania University, India
• Thesis advisor for 18 Ph.D. and 13 Masters degree recipients. Currently have 4 Ph.D. students.
• 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