Professor Simeon Reich was born in Krakow, Poland in 1948. He is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, where he received his BSc (1970) and DSc (1973) degrees. He taught previously at Tel Aviv University, the University of Chicago, the University of Southern California, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and UMCS (Lublin). Professor Reich's areas of research include nonlinear operator theory, nonlinear evolution and integral equations, the identification and estimation of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, infinite dimensional holomorphy, variational inequalities, and sequential and parallel algorithms in feasibility and optimization. His list of publications contains four monographs, twenty-one edited volumes, and more than 600 research papers on Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization. Professor Reich has supervised seventeen PhD students and ten MSc students.
