Robert R. & Elaine F. Phelps Professor Adjunct Professor, Applied Mathematics Contact Information gunther@math.washington.edu (206) 543-1946 PDL C-449 Personal Website Fields of Interest Partial Differential Equations Biography PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976 Courses Taught Winter 2025MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Autumn 2024MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Spring 2024MATH 526 A: Real Analysis MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis MATH 583 E: Special Topics in Mathematics Winter 2024MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Autumn 2023MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Spring 2023MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis MATH 558 A: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations MATH 583 D: Special Topics in Mathematics Winter 2023MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis MATH 557 A: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations MATH 582 D: Special Topics in Mathematics Autumn 2022MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Spring 2022MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Winter 2022MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Autumn 2021MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Spring 2021MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Winter 2021MATH 530 B: Seminar in Analysis Affiliations Related Departments Applied Mathematics News & Events Related News Gunther Uhlmann and Terry Rockefeller among best mathematics research scientists (November 6, 2024) Analysis-Geometry-Probability Day (September 25, 2024) Uhlmann and Vinzant recipients of Frontiers of Science Awards (July 21, 2023) Gunther Uhlmann elected to National Academy of Sciences (May 2, 2023) Gunther Uhlmann awarded the 2021 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics (December 4, 2020) Gunther Uhlmann receives the 2017 Solomon Lefschetz Medal (July 25, 2017) Gunther Uhlmann’s latest work featured in Nature (February 23, 2017) Gunther Uhlmann gives Swedish Academy Lecture (October 1, 2016) Gunther Uhlmann's cloaking theory successfully realized (October 1, 2015) Sándor Kovács named a 2014 Simons Fellow (June 1, 2014) Gunther Uhlmann honored (March 1, 2014) Gunther Uhlmann gives talk at the Banff Centre (September 1, 2013) AMS Fellows Named (November 1, 2012) Gunther Uhlmann at Eastside Science Café on July 9th (June 1, 2012) Gunther Uhlmann awarded the 2011 Kleinman Prize (April 1, 2011) Gunther Uhlmann to deliver Einstein Lecture (February 1, 2011) Gunther Uhlmann receives AMS Bôcher Prize (January 1, 2011) Mathematics faculty honored (April 1, 2010) Department receives Research Training Grant from NSF (May 1, 2009) Gunther Uhlmann named Fellow of American Academy of Arts & Sciences (April 1, 2009) Gunther Uhlmann's work on invisibility cloaking (January 1, 2007) Related Events UW-PIMS Colloquium: Journey to the Center of the Earth - May 17 2024, 3:30pm Current Topics Seminar: Inverse Problems and Harry Potter's Cloak - April 27 2017, 4pm UW-PIMS Colloquium: [Video] Cloaking and Transformation Optics - November 20 2009, 2:30pm