Arnold to Speak on Stability, Consistency, and Convergence: Modern Variations on a Classical Theme
Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota, will deliver an AMS-MAA Invited Address on Monday, January 5, 2009, 11:10 a.m. to noon. He will speak on Stability, Consistency, and Convergence: Modern Variations on a Classical Theme. This lecture will be held in Ballroom Salons 1 and 2, Lobby Level, Marriott Wardman Park.
Listen
to Douglas Arnold's talk with AMS Public Awareness Officer Mike Breen
about his address.
Douglas N. Arnold is the McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor of Mathematics
at the University of Minnesota. He is a research mathematician and educator
with a strong interest in mathematics in interdisciplinary research and
in the public understanding of the role of mathematics. In 2008, Prof.
Arnold serves as the President-elect of SIAM, the Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics and will serve a two-year term as president of
SIAM beginning at the start of 2009, followed by a year as past president.
Prof. Arnold's research interests include numerical analysis, partial
differential equations, mechanics, and in particular, the interplay between
these fields. Much of his work concerns the computer solution of partial
differential equations, focusing on the development and understanding
of methods for simulating physical phenomena ranging from the deformation
of elastic plates and shells to the collision of black holes. Around 2002
he initiated the finite element exterior calculus, a new approach to the
stability of finite element methods based on geometric and topological
structure underlying the relevant partial differential equations. The
development of the finite element exterior calculus is a major direction
of his current research work.
Prof. Arnold received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University
of Chicago in 1979. From 1979 through 1989 he was on the faculty of the
University of Maryland. In 1989 he moved to Penn State University where
he was appointed Distinguished Professor Mathematics, and where he remained
until moving to University of Minnesota and assuming the position of Director
at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications in August 2001.