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Paul Roesel Garabedian (August 2, 1927, Cincinnati – May 13, 2010, Manhattan) was an applied mathematician and numerical analyst.[1] Garabedian was the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.[2] He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics and plasma physics (design and optimization of stellarators).[3] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.[4]
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Education and career
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Garabedian received a Bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1946 and a Master's degree from the Harvard University in 1947, both in mathematics. He received his Ph.D., also from Harvard University, in 1948 under the direction of Lars Ahlfors.[5] It was at Brown University that he met his longtime colleague and collaborator, Frances Bauer.[6]
In 1949 Garabedian joined the faculty at the University of California as an Assistant Professor and became Associate Professor in 1952. In 1956, he moved to Stanford University as a Professor of mathematics. In 1978 he was appointed the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. In a long and fruitful academic career, Garabedian has supervised 27 Ph.D. theses. The first was in 1953 (Edward McLeod) and the last came in 1997 (Connie Chen).
Honors and awards
- Sloan Fellowship, 1961-63
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1966[7]
- Fairchild Distinguished Scholar Caltech, 1975
- NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award by NASA Langley Research Center, 1976
- Boris Pregel Award, New York Academy of Sciences, 1980
- Birkhoff Prize of the AMS and SIAM, 1983[8]
- Theodore von Kármán Prize, SIAM, 1989
Books
- Partial Differential Equations, 2nd ed., Chelsea Pub. Co. (1998). ISBN 0821813773
- Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium and Stability of Stellarators, with F. Bauer and O. Betancourt. Springer-Verlag (1984). ISBN: 0387909664
- Supercritical Wing Sections II, with F. Bauer, D. Korn and A. Jameson. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer-Verlag (1975).[9]
References
- ^ "NYU > Courant Institute > Announcements". cims.nyu.edu. http://cims.nyu.edu/webapps/feed/announcements. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
- ^ Paul Garabedian at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- ^ "Archive (1995-present)". American Physical Society. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?nom_unit=Plasma%20Physics%20(DPP)&year=2004. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
- ^ "National Academy of Sciences". National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nasonline.org/site/Dir/818102646?pg=vprof&mbr=1002868&returl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasonline.org%2Fsite%2FDir%2F818102646%3Fpg%3Dsrch%26view%3Dbasic&retmk=search_again_link. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
- ^ "In Memory Of ...". American Mathematical Society. http://www.ams.org/news/in-memory/in-memory. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
- ^ Interview with Paul Garabedian
- ^ Paul Roesel Garabedian - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- ^ "George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics". American Mathematical Society. http://www.ams.org/prizes/birkhoff-prize.html. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
- ^ Abstract of Supercritical Wing Sections II
External links
- Garabedian's Curriculum Vitae
- Paul Garabedian at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- New York Times obituary
Categories:- American mathematicians
- Armenian mathematicians
- American people of Armenian descent
- Harvard University alumni
- Brown University alumni
- New York University faculty
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Numerical analysts
- Computational fluid dynamicists
- 1927 births
- 2010 deaths
- 20th-century mathematicians
- Fellows of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
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