Jerrold E. Marsden: advisors and students

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Jerrold E. Marsden

Canadian-American mathematician1942 to 2010

Supervised 23 doctoral students (25 students at any level) at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Arthur Wightman as doctoral advisor and lists 48 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, OpenAlex, and 8 other registers.

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Students25

cited by a thesis record
Tomasz Michal Tyranowski “Geometric Integration Applied to Moving Mesh Methods and Degenerate Lagrangians”
2014 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Paul Michael Skerritt “Geometric Quantization and Foliation Reduction”
2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ashley Moore “Discrete Mechanics and Optimal Control for Space Trajectory Design”
2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Molei Tao “Multiscale Geometric Integration of Deterministic and Stochastic Systems”
2011 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Philip Christopher Du Toit “Transport and Separatrices in Time-Dependent Flows”
2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Evan S. Gawlik “Geometric, Variational Discretization of Continuum Theories”
2010 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's
cited by a thesis record
David N. Pekarek “Variational Methods for Control and Design of Bipedal Robot Models”
2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dmitry Pavlov “Structure-Preserving Discretization of Incompressible Fluids”
2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ari Joshua Stern “Geometric Discretization of Lagrangian Mechanics and Field Theories”
2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Katalin Anna Grubits “Low-Dimensional Representations of Transitions in Molecular Systems”
2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nawaf Mohammed Bou-Rabee “Hamilton-Pontryagin Integrators on Lie Groups”
2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Steven Lee Brunton “Rank-1 Saddle Transport in Three or More Degrees of Freedom Scattering Reactions”
2006 · California Institute of Technology · bachelor's
cited by a thesis record
Shawn Christopher Shadden “A Dynamical Systems Approach to Unsteady Systems”
2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Harish Subrahmanya Bhat “Lagrangian Averaging, Nonlinear Waves, and Shock Regularization”
2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jimmy Fung “Coarse Analysis of Multiscale Systems: Diffuser Flows, Charged Particle Motion, and Connections to Averaging Theory”
2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Melvin Leok “Foundations of Computational Geometric Mechanics”
2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Shane David Ross “Cylindrical Manifolds and Tube Dynamics in the Restricted Three-Body Problem”
2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sergiy Vasylkevych “Poisson Structures for PDEs Associated with Diffeomorphism Groups”
2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Matthew West “Variational Integrators”
2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Razvan Constantin Fetecau “Variational Methods for Nonsmooth Mechanics”
2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Anil Nirmal Hirani “Discrete Exterior Calculus”
2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Francois Paul Lekien “Time-Dependent Dynamical Systems and Geophysical Flows”
2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dong Eui Chang “Controlled Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Systems”
2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sergey Pekarsky “Discrete reduction of mechanical systems and multisymplectic geometry of continuum mechanics”
2000 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Anthony David Blaom “The Perturbation of Hamiltonian Systems with a Non-Abelian Symmetry”
1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Arthur Wightman

Students on Wikidata48

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Graciela Chichilnisky
born 1946
stated by Wikidata
Uyammadu Mbanefo
born 1946
stated by Wikidata
Tudor Rațiu
born 1950
stated by Wikidata
David Dai-Wai Bao
born 1953
stated by Wikidata
Richard Wallace Montgomery
born 1956
stated by Wikidata
Anthony D. Blaom
born 1968
stated by Wikidata
Matthew West
born 1975
stated by Wikidata
Andrew Russell Phelps
stated by Wikidata
Anil Nirmal Hirani
stated by Wikidata
Antonio Hernandez Garduno
stated by Wikidata
Ari Joshua Stern
stated by Wikidata
Ashley Moore
stated by Wikidata
Chong Ye Xu
stated by Wikidata
Debra Kim Lewis
stated by Wikidata
Dena Louise Patterson
stated by Wikidata
Dong Eui Chang
stated by Wikidata
François Lekien
stated by Wikidata
Gabriel Guillermo Lugo
stated by Wikidata
George William Patrick
stated by Wikidata
Gil Bor
stated by Wikidata
Gloria Eduvina Sánchez de Alvarez
stated by Wikidata
Harish Subrahmanya Bhat
stated by Wikidata
Henry Jacobs
stated by Wikidata
Jimmy Fung
stated by Wikidata
Judith Meryl Arms
stated by Wikidata
Luz Vianey Vela-Arevalo
stated by Wikidata
Marjorie Frost McCracken
stated by Wikidata
Mark Alber
stated by Wikidata
Mathew Joseph Perlmutter
stated by Wikidata
Melvin Leok
stated by Wikidata
Molei Tao
stated by Wikidata
Murray Robert Cantor
stated by Wikidata
Nawaf Bou-Rabee
stated by Wikidata
Neil Holden Getz
stated by Wikidata
Omar Bakri Hijab
stated by Wikidata
Paul Skerritt
stated by Wikidata
Philip Du Toit
stated by Wikidata
Razvan C. Fetecau
stated by Wikidata
Robert James Filippini
stated by Wikidata
Sameer Madhav Jalnapurkar
stated by Wikidata
Sergey Pekarsky
stated by Wikidata
Sergiy Vasylkevych
stated by Wikidata
Shane D. Ross
stated by Wikidata
Shawn C. Shadden
stated by Wikidata
Shuh-Jye Chern
stated by Wikidata
Therese Langer
stated by Wikidata
Wang Sang Koon
stated by Wikidata
William B. Dunbar

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataArthur Wightman
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJohn Archibald Wheeler
3 steps up
stated by WikidataKarl Herzfeld
4 steps up
stated by WikidataArnold Sommerfeldstated by WikidataFriedrich Hasenöhrl

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 168 people: 23 cited by thesis records, 145 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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University of Toronto
studied
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Princeton University
studied
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California Institute of Technology
worked
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University of California, Berkeley
worked

Sat beside the lineage74

committee member, not advisor

cited by a thesis record
Gentian Buzi “Control Theoretic Analysis of Autocatalytic Networks in Biology with Applications to Glycolysis”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Chia-Chieh Chu “Multiscale Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Related Applications”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Philip Christopher Du Toit “Transport and Separatrices in Time-Dependent Flows”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dennice F. Maynard Gayme “A Robust Control Approach to Understanding Nonlinear Mechanisms in Shear Flow Turbulence”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Liliya Kharevych “Geometric Interpretation of Physical Systems for Improved Elasticity Simulations”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David N. Pekarek “Variational Methods for Control and Design of Bipedal Robot Models”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jifeng Peng “A Lagrangian Approach to Transport of Momentum and Biomass in Aquatic Biological Systems”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Leonard Joseph Lucas “Uncertainty Quantification Using Concentration-of-Measure Inequalities”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jonathan Andrew Othmer “Algorithms for Mapping Nucleic Acid Free Energy Landscapes”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dmitry Pavlov “Structure-Preserving Discretization of Incompressible Fluids”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ari Joshua Stern “Geometric Discretization of Lagrangian Mechanics and Field Theories”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Roger David Donaldson “Discrete Geometric Homogenisation and Inverse Homogenisation of an Elliptic Operator”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Melvin Estuardo Flores Contreras “Real-Time Trajectory Generation for Constrained Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline Basis Functions”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Katalin Anna Grubits “Low-Dimensional Representations of Transitions in Molecular Systems”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Derek Gresham Rinderknecht “Development of a Microimpedance Pump for Pulsatile Flow Transport - Part 1: Flow Characteristics of the Microimpedance Pump. Part 2: A Systematic Study of Steady and Pulsatile Transport in Microscale Cavities”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Stephen J. Waydo “Explicit Object Representation by Sparse Neural Codes”
committee member · 2008 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ehsan Afshari “Optotronics: Optically Inspired Electronics”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Nawaf Mohammed Bou-Rabee “Hamilton-Pontryagin Integrators on Lie Groups”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yashashree Kulkarni “Coarse-Graining of Atomistic Description at Finite Temperature”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michael Thomas Rubel “A Theory of Stationarity and Asymptotic Approach in Dissipative Systems”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lei Zhang “Metric Based Upscaling for Partial Differential Equations with a Continuum of Scales”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Laurent Demanet “Curvelets, Wave Atoms, and Wave Equations”
committee member · 2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Shawn Christopher Shadden “A Dynamical Systems Approach to Unsteady Systems”
committee member · 2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Demetri Polychronis Spanos “Distributed Gradient Systems and Dynamic Coordination”
committee member · 2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Matias Gabriel Zielonka “Configurational Forces and Variational Mesh Adaption in Solid Dynamics”
committee member · 2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Harish Subrahmanya Bhat “Lagrangian Averaging, Nonlinear Waves, and Shock Regularization”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Domitilla Del Vecchio “State Estimation in Multi-Agent Decision and Control Systems”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jimmy Fung “Coarse Analysis of Multiscale Systems: Diffuser Flows, Charged Particle Motion, and Connections to Averaging Theory”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Marcel Gavriliu “Towards More Efficient Interval Analysis: Corner Forms and a Remainder Interval Newton Method”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Irene Michelle Gregory “Design and Stability Analysis of an Integrated Controller for Highly Flexible Advanced Aircraft Utilizing the Novel Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Stephen Prajna “Optimization-Based Methods for Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems Verification”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Arash Yavari “Atomic Structure of Ferroelectric Domain Walls, Free Surfaces and Steps”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Xinwei Yu “Localized Non-bBlowup Conditions for 3D Incompressible Euler Flows and Related Equations”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
William Bruce Dunbar “Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Multiagent Systems”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Melvin Leok “Foundations of Computational Geometric Mechanics”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Shane David Ross “Cylindrical Manifolds and Tube Dynamics in the Restricted Three-Body Problem”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sergiy Vasylkevych “Poisson Structures for PDEs Associated with Diffeomorphism Groups”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Matthew West “Variational Integrators”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Razvan Constantin Fetecau “Variational Methods for Nonsmooth Mechanics”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Eitan Grinspun “The Basis Refinement Method”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michael David Hartl “Dynamics of Spinning Compact Binaries in General Relativity”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Anil Nirmal Hirani “Discrete Exterior Calculus”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Francois Paul Lekien “Time-Dependent Dynamical Systems and Geophysical Flows”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Adrián José Lew “Variational Time Integrators in Computational Solid Mechanics”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mark Bradley Milam “Real-Time Optimal Trajectory Generation for Constrained Dynamical Systems”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
James Edward Radford “Symmetry, Reduction and Swimming in a Perfect Fluid”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Pururav Thoutireddy “Variational Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Method”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Patricio Antonio Vela “Averaging and Control of Nonlinear Systems”
committee member · 2003 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Dong Eui Chang “Controlled Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Systems”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Joseph Alexander Fax “Optimal and Cooperative Control of Vehicle Formations”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Antonio Hernández Garduño “Regularization of the Amended Potential around a Symmetric Configuration”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Todd David Murphey “Control of Multiple Model Systems”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Clarence Worth III Rowley “Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Cavity Flow Oscillations”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Luz Vianey Vela-Arevalo “Time-Frequency Analysis Based on Wavelets for Hamiltonian Systems”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ali Jadbabaie “Receding horizon control of nonlinear systems: a control Lyapunov function approach”
committee member · 2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Pablo A. Parrilo “Structured semidefinite programs and semialgebraic geometry methods in robustness and optimization”
committee member · 2000 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yong Wang “Effects of actuator limits in bifurcation control with applications to active control of fluid instabilities in turbomachinery”
committee member · 2000 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Francesco Bullo “Nonlinear control of mechanical systems : a Riemannian geometry approach”
committee member · 1999 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yun Huang “Nonlinear optimal control: an enhanced quasi-LPV approach”
committee member · 1999 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
James A. Primbs “Nonlinear optimal control: a receding horizon appoach”
committee member · 1999 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Douglas J. Zare “Geometric Invariants in Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds”
committee member · 1999 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Anthony David Blaom “The Perturbation of Hamiltonian Systems with a Non-Abelian Symmetry”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sonja Glavaski “Robust system analysis and nonlinear system model reduction”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John William Goodwine “Control of stratified systems with robotic applications”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Qiao Lin “Mechanics and Planning of Workpiece Fixturing and Robotic Grasping”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mikhail K. Rudnev “Exponentially small splitting of separatrices and the Arnold's diffusion problem”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Carolyn Louise Beck “Model Reduction and Minimality for Uncertain Systems”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Raffaello D'Andrea “Generalizations of H-infinity optimization. Control of rotating stall”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Muruhan Rathinam “Differentially flat nonlinear control systems”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
James Patrick Ostrowski “The mechanics and control of undulatory robotic locomotion”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Fernando Paganini-Herrera “Sets and Constraints in the Analysis of Uncertain Systems”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Stefano Soatto “A geometric framework for dynamic vision”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Andrew David Lewis “Aspects of geometric mechanics and control of mechanical systems”
committee member · 1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Igor Mezic “On the geometrical and statistical properties of dynamical systems : theory and applications”
committee member · 1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

At a glance

known as: mathematician, university teacher, physicist
fields: mathematic, applied mathematics, geometry, mechanics, dynamics
awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, 2006, Max Planck Research Award, 2000, Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award, 2010, Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2009
member of: Royal Society of London, 2006, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, from 2009
Wikipedia: in 12 languages

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identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaJerrold E. Marsden
stated by WikidataWikidataQ574589
stated by WikidataVIAF108169626
stated by WikidataGND124171141
stated by WikidataIdRef031564593
stated by WikidataISNI000000010930819X

papers

OpenAlexA5110208781a checked match
stated by WikidataDBLP35/1726
stated by WikidataScopus35507964800

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project28380

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@misc{academicancestry_Q574589,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Jerrold E. Marsden: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q574589},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Jerrold E. Marsden: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q574589