Darryl Holm

Darryl Holm is an American applied mathematician, and Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London. He studied Physics at the University of Minnesota (1963-1967), and Physics and Mathematics at the University of Michigan (1967-1971). He joined the Theoretical Design Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 1972 where he worked on the physics of strong shock waves and high-temperature hydrodynamic phenomena. At LANL Darryl also wrote his PhD dissertation entitled "Symmetry breaking in fluid dynamics: Lie group reducible motions for real fluids", receiving his PhD in 1976, supervised by Roy Axford. A result discovered in this work was later used to substantiate the accuracy of the Los Alamos on-site yield verification method (CORRTEX) for the US-USSR Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT). In 1980, Darryl moved to the Theoretical Division, where he helped found the Center for Nonlinear Studies and served as one of its acting directors.