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El James Yorke Award has been instituted at the International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Applications in Science and Engineering, which will take place at the end of June in Porto (Portugal) to reward great achievements in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory. Professor Sanjuán will therefore be the first recipient of this award.
Miguel Ángel Fernández Sanjuán is Professor of Physics and directs the Research Group on Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos Theory and Complex Systems. The URJC professor is also a Corresponding Academician of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and a member of the European Academy.
The international jury has considered his important contributions to the understanding of fractal structures in chaotic scattering, the control of chaotic systems and the development of map-based models of neurons and other applications in nonlinear and chaotic dynamics.
James Yorke, one of the pioneers of Chaos Theory
In 1975, the mathematician and physicist James Yorke coined the term "chaos" in the modern literature on nonlinear dynamical systems. This mathematical physical concept has become popular in contemporary culture through what has come to be known as the “butterfly effect”, implying that a minimal variation in the initial conditions of a dynamic process can change everything. In that sense, it is closely linked to problems of uncertainty in the prediction of natural phenomena.
Professor James Yorke is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Maryland in the United States. In 2003, he received the prestigious Japan Prize granted by the Government of Japan and delivered by the Emperor of Japan himself. In 2014, he was invested doctor Honorary by the Rey Juan Carlos University and in 2022 he has been elected Foreign Academic of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain.