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Mourad E.H. Ismail

Personal Data

Born April 27, 1944, in Cairo, Egypt. Male. Married.
Canadian and Egyptian citizen, permanent resident in the United States.

Education

Ph.D. 1974 (Alberta), M.Sc. 1969 (Alberta), B.Sc. 1964 (Cairo).

Curriculum Vitae

Corrections to: Classical and Quantum Orthogonal Polynomials in one Variable, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Research Interests

Approximation theory, asymptotics, combinatorics, integral transforms and operational calculus, orthogonal polynomials and special functions.

Editorial Boards

1. Constructive Approximation, published by Springer-Verlag, 1988-present
2. Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, 1992-2001
3. Journal of Approximation Theory, published by Academic Press, 2000-present
4. Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1999-present
5. The Indian Journal of Mathematics, 1997-present
6. International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, published by Hindawi, 1993-present
7. Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications, published by Plenum, 1999-present
8. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, published by the Institute of Physics, 2001-present
9. Methods and Applications of Analysis, published by International Press, 1992-1999
10. The Ramanujan Journal, published by Kluwer, 1996-present
11. Collaborating Problem Editor, American Mathematical Monthly, published by American Mathematical Society, 1992-1997

Research and Conference Grants

Agencies Refereed For

National Science Foundation (algebra and number theory, classical analysis, computers and computational mathematics, and modern analysis), National Security Agency, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Soros program, and Kuwait Research Foundation.

Journals Refereed For

Honors and Awards

• Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, Cairo University 1960-1964.
• Dissertation Fellowship, University of Alberta, 1973-1974.
• Theodore and Venette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar Award, University of South Florida, 1992-1993.
• Leverhulme research fellow, Imperial College, London, 1996.
• University visiting research professorship, City University of Hong Kong, 2000-2001.
• USF Presidential Excellence Award (= 10 % raise), 2003.
• Listed among the highly cited: www.isihighlycited.com
• Elected fellow of the Institute of Physics, December 2004.
• Elected fellow of the European Society of Computational Mathematics in Science and Engineering.

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Invited Addresses

Graduate Students Supervised

Administrative Experience