Ed Seidel
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Edward Seidel (born August 21, 1957) is an American academic administrator and scientist serving as the president of the University of Wyoming since July 1, 2020.[1] He previously served as the Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation for the University of Illinois System, as well as a Founder Professor in the Department of Physics and a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2] He was the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois from 2014 to 2017.
Quick Facts 28th President of the University of Wyoming, Preceded by ...
Ed Seidel | |
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28th President of the University of Wyoming | |
Assumed office July 1, 2020 | |
Preceded by | Neil Theobald |
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Born | (1957-08-21) August 21, 1957 (age 66) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
Education | College of William and Mary (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MS) Yale University (PhD) |
Awards | Sidney Fernbach Award Gordon Bell Prize |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
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Thesis | Perturbation methods for the calculation of gravitational waves from slightly nonspherical spacetimes with applications to stellar core collapse (1988) |
Doctoral advisor | Vincent Moncrief |
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