Anthony Bloch
Office: Room 3066 East Hall.
Office Phone: (734) 6474980
Title: Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professor of Mathematics
My main research interests include : Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics, symplectic geometry, total positivity and its connection with dynamics, stability, nonholonomic systems (the motion of mechanical systems with nonintegrable constraints), the relationship between continuous and discrete flows, nonlinear control and optimal control. I study various other other topics in geometric mechanics and nonlinear dynamics including quantum dynamics and control. I am on the editorial board of a number of leading journals and am co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nonlinear Science as well as several Springer Applied Math Book series. I was Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. I am a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a SIAM and AMS Fellow, and have been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows and a Simons Fellow. I am also a Fellow of the International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence. More details can be found in my vita below including recent named lectures and lecture series. I am an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Computational Medicine And Bioinformatics at Michigan and recently been a Distinguished Visiting Professor at ICMAT, Spain. I served as Graduate Chair (2002-2005) and Chair (2005-2008, 2017-2023) of the Dept. of Mathematics. I have been awarded the 2026 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize from SIAM.
Wits alumni page: https://www.wits.ac.za/news/sources/alumni-news/2026/anthony-bloch-wins-prestigious-mathematics-award-.html
SIAM Spotlight: https://www.siam.org/publications/siam-news/articles/2026-july-prize-spotlight/#Bloch
