Keith Schrader
Zhongzin Zhao
Keith Schrader |
Zhongzin Zhao |
Professors Keith Schrader and Zhongzin Zhao retired at the end of the 1999-2000 academic year. An April banquet honored their combined total of 47 years of service. Schrader came to MU as an assistant professor in 1966 after obtaining bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under the direction of Lloyd Jackson. He was promoted to associate professor in 1969 and to professor in 1978.
During his 34 years in Columbia, Schrader tirelessly devoted himself to the department, University and the Columbia community. He was chair of the department from 1979-82 and again from 1985-88, and served on numerous department and University committees. He was a member of the Columbia Planning and Zoning commission from 1980 to 1988. Schrader's research was in differential equations, and he mentored two PhD students, James Thornburg and Suram Umamaheswaram.
Zhao was born in China in 1942 and came to the United States in 1982, settling in Columbia in 1987. He received his PhD from Fudan University in 1968. Because of the political turmoil in China at the time, Zhao did not publish his first paper until 1979. He quickly made up for lost time by publishing more than 60 papers in the next 20 years.Zhao is a world-renowned expert in analysis and probability. He routinely lectures on his work at top math departments such as Stanford and MIT, and he has given numerous presentations at international conferences. During his 13 years in the department, Zhao made a great impact on its research culture, providing key leadership to the mathematical physics group during the period of its rapid growth in the 1990s.
