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Peter Kuchment

Peter Kuchment (born 1949) is an American mathematician working in partial differential equations, mathematical physics, geometrical analysis, and integral geometry with applications to medical imaging.[1]

Peter Kuchment
Born
Petr Abramovich Kuchment

1949 (age 76–77)
Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Alma materVoronezh State University, USSR
Known forFloquet theory for periodic PDEs, mathematical techniques of medical imaging (tomography), quantum graphs, K-12 outreach
Scientific career
FieldsPDEs, Operator theory, Computed tomography, Applied mathematics
InstitutionsVoronezh Forestry Institute, USSR; Wichita State University, KS; Texas A&M University, TX.
Thesis PhD Thesis (1973): Topological problems of operator theory.
D.Sci. Thesis (1983): Floquet theory for PDEs
Ph.D Advisor Selim Krein

Peter Kuchment was born in 1949 in Chernivtsi (formerly Chernovtsy), Soviet Union (now Ukraine). He then studied at a university and worked in Voronezh (Russia), until emigrating to the US in 1989. He holds a M.S. in mathematics from Voronezh State University (1971), a Ph.D. from Kharkiv State University, Ukraine (1973), and Doctor of Science from The Institute of Mathematics[2] of the Ukrainian Acad. Sci., Kyiv (1983) (the latter two degrees in Mathematics and Physics).[citation needed]

Employment

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  • 1971–1972: School teacher of mathematics, Voronezh, USSR[citation needed]
  • 1972–1989: Faculty (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor and chair) at the Mathematics and Theoretical Mechanics Department of Voronezh Forestry Institute (now Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technology).[citation needed]
  • 1990–2001: Associate and later Full Professor at the Mathematics and Statistics Department of Wichita State University.[3]
  • 2001 -  present: Full Professor, later Distinguished Professor (2011), Arthur George and Mary Emolene  Owen Chair[4] (2025) of the Mathematics Department at the Texas A&M University.

Publications

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Kuchment has published 168 peer-reviewed papers.[5][6] He has four books published and one translated.[7][8][9][10][11]

Advising

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Advised on 21 PhD Theses.[12]

Professional honors

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P. Kuchment is a member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow),[13] American Mathematical Society (Fellow, Life Member),[14] American Physical Society (Fellow, Life Member),[15] Institute of Physics (Fellow),[16] Inst. Electr. Electron. Eng. (Senior Member),[17] Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Fellow),[18] Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (Fellow).[19]

References

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  1. ↑ "Peter Kuchment". people.tamu.edu. Archived from the original on 2025-01-26. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  2. ↑ "Institute of Mathematics NAS of Ukraine". imath.kiev.ua.
  3. ↑ "IEEE Author information". ieeexplore.ieee.org. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  4. ↑ Hansen '24, Emily. "Recognizing Excellence: Seven Arts And Sciences Faculty Named To Endowed Chairs". artsci.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Peer-reviewed papers by Peter Kuchment". people.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-05.
  6. ↑ "MathSciNet". connect.liblynx.com. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
  7. ↑ Kha, Minh; Kuchment, Peter (2021). Liouville-Riemann-Roch Theorems on Abelian Coverings. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 2245. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-67428-1. ISBN 978-3-030-67427-4. ISSN 0075-8434.
  8. ↑ Kuchment, Peter (2013-12-27). The Radon Transform and Medical Imaging. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. doi:10.1137/1.9781611973297. ISBN 978-1-61197-328-0.
  9. ↑ Kuchment, Peter (1993). Floquet Theory for Partial Differential Equations. doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-8573-7. ISBN 978-3-0348-9686-3.
  10. ↑ Helgason, Sigurdur (1986). Groups and Geometric Analysis (in Russian). Moscow: Mir.
  11. ↑ Berkolaiko, G.; Kuchment, P. "Introduction to Quantum Graphs". bookstore.ams.org. Retrieved 2025-06-09.
  12. ↑ "Peter Kuchment - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org.
  13. ↑ "Search | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
  14. ↑ "AMS :: List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". www.ams.org. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
  15. ↑ "APS Fellows Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
  16. ↑ "IOP member info".
  17. ↑ "Mimecast TTP Web Portal".
  18. ↑ "Fellows Directory | SIAM". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
  19. ↑ "Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association". aaia-ai.org. Retrieved 2025-06-10.
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