- Ivo Babuška
Ivo M. Babuška is a Czech-American
mathematician , noted for his studies of thefinite element method and the proof of theBabuška-Lax-Milgram theorem inpartial differential equations . One of the celebrated result in the finite elements is the so-called Babuska-Brezzi (BB) condition, which provides sufficient conditions for a stable mixed formulation. The BB condition has guided mathematicians and engineers to develop state-of-the-art formulations for many technologically important problems like Darcy flow, Stokes flow, incompressible Navier-Stokes, nearly incompressible elasticity. He is also well known for his work on adaptive methods and the "p"- and "hp"-versions of the finite element method [http://www.cimne.upc.es/congress/former/WCCM/ANN_2/HTML/MENDOZA/node2.html] . He also developed the mathematical framework for the partition of unity methods.Biography
He studied
civil engineering at theCzech Technical University in Prague , where he received the Dipl. Ing in 1949. In 1951 he received the degree Dr. Tech.; his doctoraldissertation was supervised byEduard Čech andVladimir Knichal . From 1949 he studied at Mathematical Institute of theCzechoslovak Academy of Sciences and then was the head of the Department of Partial Differential Equations. In 1955, he received aPh.D. in mathematics and in 1960D.Sc. in mathematics.Babuška works in the field of mathematics, applied mathematics, numerical methods, finite element methods, and computational mechanics. In 1968, he became a professor at
University of Maryland, College Park , where he retired in 1996 as a Distinguished University Professor. He then moved to theInstitute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at theUniversity of Texas at Austin where he holds the Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering.Babuška has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals, more than 70 papers in conference proceedings, and several books. He is an invited speaker at major international conferences and is a member numerous editorial boards for scientific journals. He has received many honors for his work, including four doctorates "
honoris causa ", the Czechoslovak State prize for Mathematics, the Birkhoff prize, the Humbolt Award ofFederal Republic of Germany , Honorary Foreign Member of the Czech Learned Society and the Bolzano Medal. In 2003, asteroid36060 Babuška was named in his honor by theInternational Astronomical Union . In 2005, Babuska was awarded the Honorary Medal "De Scientia Et Humanitate Optime Meritis" and he was elected to theNational Academy of Engineering . He is also a member of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Sciences of Texas.External links
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