Professor Gustavo Ponce

Education:
Ph.D. Courant Institute - New York University, 1982.
         Thesis Advisors: Sergiu Klainerman  and  Louis Nirenberg.
M.S.  Courant Institute - New York University, 1980.
B.S.   Universitad Central de Venezuela, 1976.
Honors:
Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin,  1998.
Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Award in Sciences, Polar Foundation, Venezuela, 1987.
Positions Held:
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Barbara, July 1991-present.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, 1989 - 1991.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago, 1986 - 1989.
Assistant Professor, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central Venezuela, 1984 - 1986.
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 1982 - 1984.
Instructor, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central Venezuela, 1976-1978.
Visiting Appointments:
Visiting Professor at Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, Jan.-March 2004.
Visiting Professor at Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, June-July 2003.

Visiting Professor at IMPA, Rio do Janeiro, June 2002.
Visiting Professor at MSRI, Berkeley, Sept. 2001.
Iberdrola Professor at Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain, Sept. 98-Dec. 98.
Visiting Professor at Universite de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, June 97-July 97.
Visiting Professor at University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, May 89-June 89.
Former  PhD students:
Felipe Linares, (Penn. State Univ. 1992).
Daniella Bekiranov, (University of California, Santa Barbara 1996).
German Fonseca, (University of California, Santa Barbara 1999).
Wee-Keong Lim, (University of California, Santa Barbara 2003).
Liana Dawson, (University of California, Santa Barbara 2007).
Postdocs:
Takayoshi Ogawa, Tohoku University, Japan, 1994-1996.
Helena McGahagan, University of California Santa Barbara, 2004-present.

Editorial Boards:

Differential and Integral Equations, 2002-present.
Nagoya Mathematical Journal, 2003-present.
Transactions of the AMS, 2006-present.