Education
Joseph LaSalle defended his Doctor of Philosophy thesis on ″Pseudo-Normed Linear Sets over Valued Rings″ at the California Institute of Technology in 1941.
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Joseph LaSalle
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In 1946 he joined the Mathematics Department at the University of Notre Dame as an assistant professor and remained there until 1958, becoming a full professor in 1956. From 1958 until 1964 LaSalle was based at the Research Institute for Advanced Studies (Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor) in Baltimore, where he worked closely with Lefschetz and in 1960 published his extension of Lyapunov stability theory, known today as the LaSalle"s invariance principle. In 1964 LaSalle founded the Journal of Differential Equations and served as its Editor-in-Chief until 1980.
In 1964 he became the first director of the Center for Dynamical Systems at Brown University, where he was also the chairman of the Division of Applied Mathematics in 1968-1973.
In 1975 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for applied mathematics.
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In 1962-1963 he was President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and was a member of its board of trustees in 1964-1967.
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