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Math Sciences
George Anastassiou

George Anastassiou

Professor

901.678.3144Dunn Hall 200ganastss@memphis.edu

Research Interests

Computational analysis, approximation theory, probability, theory of moments.

Dr. George Anastassiou's CV: https://archive.org/details/anastassiou-cv-1-1-26

Editor in Chief

JAFA Journal of Applied Functional Analysis; JoCAA Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications; and JCAAM Journal of Concrete and Applicable Mathematics. Old websites at JAFA, JoCAA, and JCAAM.

Invited Lectures

2026

  • Professor Emeritus of Mathematics George A. Anastassiou, participated in the MDPI "The 1st International Online Conference in Fractal & Fractional", held online during 13-15 April of 2026. He was also a keynote speaker in Section 5: "Fractional Calculus in Machine Learning: Applications and Challenges", where he delivered the paper "Fractional case of Composition of Activation functions and the reduction to finite domain."
  • Dr. G. Anastassiou also was an one hour invited speaker in the international conference "Recent Advances in Mathematical Sciences and its Applications (RAMSA-2026)", held in "Jaypee Institute of Information Technology", Noida, India, 2-20-2026. Title of lecture: "GENERALIZED LOGISTIC NEURAL NETWORKS AS POSITIVE LINEAR OPERATORS".
  • Professor Emeritus George Anastassiou, Dept. of Mathematics/UM, was an one hour invited main speaker in an online webinar by MDPI publisher on 3-13-2026, celebrating the International Day of Mathematics

2024

  • Plenary speaker, ICAAMM (International Conference on Applied Analysis and Mathematical Modeling), Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 19-23, 2024. Title of lecture: "Parametrized Trigonometric derived Lp degree of approximation by various smooth singular integral operators." Lecture delivered on: 7/19/24.

2023

  1. Main speaker, MDPI webinar May 12, 2023, Zurich, Switzerland.
  2. Joint Invited speaker, 1st International Statistics Conference, May 25-28, 2023, Athens, Greece.
  3. Main speaker, ICOMSS23, Selcuk, Turkey, June, 5-7, 2023.
  4. Invited speaker, ICNSC 2023, Istanbul, Turkey, July 10-15, 2023.
  5. Invited speaker and Honorary Chair, ICMMAAC-23, Jaipur, India, August 3-5, 2023.

Recent Books

View images of books published in 2015 by George Anastassiou.

  1. G. Anastassiou: first monograph 1993 digitized: https://archive.org/details/moments-probab-approx-th-g-anastassiou-pp-1-411-entire-monograph-1993-compressed
  2. G. Anastassiou: Monografii matematice: https://archive.org/details/monografii-matematice-g-anastassiou-s-t-rachev-1998-w-timisoara-romania-79-pages
  3. G. Anastassiou and R. Mezei (former Ph. D student of Anastassiou): Numerical Analysis Using Sage, Springer, NY, 2015 (textbook, 314 pages).
  4. G. Anastassiou: Frontiers in Approximation Theory, World Scientific Publishing Corporation, Singapore, NJ, 2015 (228 pages).
  5. G. Anastassiou: Frontiers in Time Scales and Inequalities, World Scientific Publishing Corporation, Singapore, NJ, 2016 (just published, 278 pages).
  6. G. Anastassiou: Intelligent Comparisons: Analytic Inequalities, Springer, Heidelberg, NY, 2016 (662 pages).
  7. G. Anastassiou: Intelligent Systems II: Complete Approximation by Neural Network Operators, Springer, Heidelberg, NY, 2016 (714 pages).
  8. G. Anastassiou: Constructive Fractional Analysis with Applications, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control,Springer, Heidelberg, NY, 2021 (522 pages).
  9. G. Anastassiou: Unification of Fractional Calculi with Applications, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer International Publishing, NY, 2022.
  10. G. Anastassiou: Parametrized, Deformed and General Neural Networks. Vol. 1116. Springer Nature, 2023.
  11. G. Anastassiou: AI MATHEMATICS: ADVANCED NEURAL NETWORK APPROXIMATION, Springer, Heidelberg, NY, 2026 (828 pages). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-15046-2

Other Major Events

  • April 10, 2026: Professor Emeritus George Anastassiou, Dept. of Mathematics/UM, served as the Organizer, Editor, and Keynote Speaker for the MDPI webinar titled "AI mathematics: advanced neural networks approximation." He delivered the keynote lecture: "Composition of Activation functions and the Reduction to finite domain."

  • January 3–7, 2026: Attended the Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Washington, D.C., delivering a one-hour invited lecture titled "Neural Networks as Positive Linear Operators."

  • August 1–3, 2025: Served as Honorary Chair and Keynote Speaker at the 8th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Applied Analysis and Computation (ICMMAAC-25, Hybrid Mode) at JECRC University, Jaipur, India. Presented the lecture "Neural Networks as Positive Linear Operators."

  • April 18–20, 2024: Plenary Speaker at the 7th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Applied Analysis and Computation (ICMMAAC-24) at Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon. The event also honored Dr. Anastassiou’s 70th birthday.

  • January 3–6, 2024: Participated in the Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society in San Francisco, CA, where he presented a research paper.

  • April 7, 2023: Delivered invited lectures in Boston, MA, including "Multivariate Gudermannian function activated neural network approximations."

  • August 4–6, 2022: Keynote Speaker at the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Applied Analysis and Computation (ICMMAAC-22), JECRC University, Jaipur, India. Lecture title: "Approximation by Neural Networks."

  • July 5–8, 2022: Participant in the 2nd World Congress of Greek Mathematicians, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

  • July 1–3, 2022: Keynote Speaker at the Online International Conference on Applied Analysis and Mathematical Modeling (ICAAMM 2022), Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey. Lecture title: "Ordinary and Fractional Approximation by Neural Network Operators Revisited."

  • February 28, 2022: Delivered a lecture titled "Approximation by Algebraic Neural Networks" at the Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.

  • Spring 2022: Invited participant and lecturer for the "Fractional Differential Equations II" seminar at the Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.

  • January 21–23, 2022: Keynote Speaker at the International Symposium on Applied Mathematics and Engineering, Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey. Presented "Abstract Bivariate Left Fractional Pseudo-Polynomial Monotone Constrained Approximation with applications"; the conference also honored his 70th birthday.

  • August 5–7, 2021: Awarded "THE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" by JECRC University and Jaipur Mathematical Society, India. Served as a one-hour Keynote Speaker at ICMMAAC-21, which honored his 69th birthday.

  • June 11–13, 2021: Keynote Speaker at the Online International Conference on Applied Analysis and Mathematical Modelling (ICAAMM 2021), Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey. Lecture title: "Iyengar-Hilfer Fractional Inequalities."

  • December 4–6, 2020: Main Keynote Speaker at the First Online International Conference on Fractional Calculus (Istanbul, Turkey) and recipient of the "Riesz" Award.

  • 2015: Organizer of the International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Approximation Theory (AMAT 2015) in Ankara, Turkey.