James W. York, Jr.

Research Professor Specializes in Gravitation and Relativity; Mathematical Physics

Contact Information Physics Department NC State University Box 8202 Raleigh, NC 27695 Work Address: 147 Partners III Phone(office): (919) 513-0959 Phone(home): (919) 821-7089 Education B.S. with High Honors, NCSU, 1962 Ph.D. in Physics, NCSU,1966 Awards and Honors • Battelle Rencontres, 1967 • National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1969 (award declined) • Fellow of the APS, 1990 • Marcel Grossman Prize in General Relativity, 2003 • Dannie Heineman Prize of the American Physical Society (APS)

Accomplishments First mathematically well-posed (i.e., uniquely solvable) form of the non-linear system of partial differential equations which constrain the initial configuration of the field Einstein gravitational field (problem unresolved since 1916). First well-posed form of the complete set of 10 Einstein equations. Established first analytic form of the Einstein equations adapted for use in numerical integration. Publications cited more than 4000 times since 1970, 15 of which in the top 400. The Way Ahead Complete monograph Dynamical Principles of General Relativity. Continue teaching "Geometric Methods in Physics." Generate more first-class publications on relevant topics in theoretical physics.