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About Darryl Holm
- Darryl Holm (born 4th October 1947) is an American applied mathematician, and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London.
- He studied Physics at the University of Minnesota, and Physics and Mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he wrote his dissertation entitled "Symmetry breaking in fluid dynamics: Lie group reducible motions for real fluids", receiving his PhD in 1976, supervised by Roy Axford.
- A result discovered in this work was later used to substantiate the accuracy of the Los Alamos on-site yield verification method (CORRTEX) for the US-USSR Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT).Holm's main research contributions have been in nonlinear science, from integrable to chaotic behaviour, from solitons to turbulence, and from fluid dynamics to shape analysis.
- Much of this work is based on Lie symmetry reduction from Hamilton's principle.
- He joined Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1971, moving to the theoretical division in 1980, where he helped found the Center for Nonlinear Studies and served as its acting director.
- With Roberto Camassa, he derived the Camassa-Holm equation, which is an integrable partial differential equation for nonlinear shallow water waves, whose solutions in the dispersionless limit are peaked solitons, so called peakons, published in 1993.
- In 2005, he moved to Imperial College London as Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, supported by a Wolfson fellowship, and was awarded an ERC advanced grant in 2011.He has written a number of books in geometric mechanics.
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