Education
Harvard University.
mathematician university professor
Harvard University.
From 1965 to 1967 Palais was a Sloan Fellow. In 1970 he was an invited speaker (Banach manifolds of fiber bundle sections) at the ICM in Nice. From 1965 to 1982 he was an editor for the Journal of Differential Geometry and from 1966 to 1969 an editor for the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.
In 2010 he received a Lester R. Ford Award.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. His doctoral students include Edward Bierstone, Leslie Lamport, Jill P. Mesirov, Chuu-lian Terng, and Karen Uhlenbeck R. R. R. R.,New Series 34, Number.
R. Palais, The Visualization of Mathematics: Towards a Mathematical Exploratorium, Notices, 46, Number.
American Mathematical Society.