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Gunduz Caginalp

Gunduz Caginalp
Born Ankara, Turkey
Residence U.S.
Fields Mathematics, Physics/Materials Science, Finance/Economics
Institutions University of Pittsburgh
Cornell University
Rockefeller University
Carnegie-Mellon University
Alma mater Cornell University Ph.D, 1978
Cornell University M.S.
Cornell University AB
Doctoral advisor Michael E. Fisher
Doctoral students Mark DeSantis, W. Xie
Known for Developing phase field models for interfaces, Asset flow differential equations, Quantitative behavioral finance, Renormalization Group and Multiscaling techniques

Gunduz Caginalp is a mathematician whose research has also contributed over 100 papers to physics, materials science and economics/finance journals, including two with Prof. Michael Fisher and nine with Nobel Laureate Prof. Vernon Smith. He started Cornell University in 1970 and received an AB in 1973 "Cum Laude with Honors in All Subjects" and Phi Beta Kappa, Master's in 1976 and PhD in 1978. He has held positions at The Rockefeller University, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh (since 1984), where he is currently Professor of Mathematics. He was born in Turkey, and spent his first seven years and ages 13–16 there, and the middle years in New York City.

Prof. Caginalp was married in 1992 to Eva. They have three sons, Carey, Reggie and Ryan.

He served as the Editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance (1999-2003), and is an Associate Editor for numerous journals. He has been the recipient of National Science Foundation and private foundation awards.

Prof. Caginalp is known mainly for developing the phase field approach to interface problems, and for pioneering mathematical modeling to understand the dynamics of financial markets beyond valuation. Currently the key areas of Prof. Caginalp's work involve quantitative behavioral finance, phase field models, and renormalization methods in differential equations. His initial research focused on rigorous equilibrium statistical mechanics, particularly surface free energy. He also worked on nonlinear hyperbolic differential equations.

Articles on his research have appeared in The New York Times, Science and other publications. Science article.

Prof. Caginalp's PhD in Applied Mathematics at Cornell University (with thesis advisor Professor Michael Fisher) focused on surface free energy. Previous results by Prof. David Ruelle, Prof. Fisher, and Prof. Elliot Lieb in the 1960s had established that the free energy of a large system can be written as a product of the volume times a term (free energy per unit volume) that is independent of the size of the system, plus smaller terms. A remaining problem was to prove that there was a similar term associated with the surface. This was more difficult since the proofs relied on discarding terms that were proportional to the surface.


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