Leon Simon is currently Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department at Stanford University.
10 Facts About Leon Simon
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Leon Simon, born 6 July 1945, received his BSc from the University of Adelaide in 1967, and his PhD in 1971 from the same institution, under the direction of James H Michael.
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Leon Simon was employed from 1968 to 1971 as a Tutor in Mathematics by the university.
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Leon Simon worked first at Flinders University as a lecturer, then at Australian National University as a professor, at the University of Melbourne, the University of Minnesota, at ETH Zurich, and at Stanford.
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Leon Simon first came to Stanford in 1973 as Visiting Assistant Professor and was awarded a full professorship in 1986.
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In 1983 Leon Simon was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal.
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Leon Simon was an invited speaker at the 1983 International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.
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Leon Simon made a general study of the Willmore functional for surfaces in general codimension, relating the value of the functional to several geometric quantities.
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Leon Simon himself was able to apply his analysis to establish the existence of minimizers of the Willmore functional with prescribed topological type.
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Robert Bartnik and Leon Simon considered the problem of prescribing the boundary and mean curvature of a spacelike hypersurface of Minkowski space.