Roland Glowinski

Biography

DEGREES: B.S. in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, 1960; M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, 1963; Ph.D. in Mathematics, University Paris VI, Paris, France, 1970 (Thesis Advisor: J.L. Lions). POSITIONS: Engineer, French Broadcasting System, Paris, France (1963-1968); Research Engineer, IRIA, France (1968-1970); Lecturer, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France (1968-1985); Scientific Director, INRIA, France (1970-85); Professor of Applied Mathematics, University Paris VI (1970- 1985 and 1992-1994); Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, University Paris VI (1981- 1985); M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston (1985- 1986); Cullen Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering University of Houston, (1986-present); Adjunct Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University (1986-present); Consultant, Institut Fran¸cais du Petrole (1990-present); Member of the Scientific Council of Electricite de France (1990-1996); Director of CERFACS, Toulouse, France (1992-1994); Member of the Board of Regents, University Leonardo da Vinci, Paris, France (1996-present); Professor Emmeritus, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France (1998-present); Docent Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Jyv¨askyl¨a, Finland (2001-present) HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS: Invited Speaker, SIAM National Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, 1978; Silver Medal of the City of Paris (for Research Achievement), 1980; Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Warsaw, 1983; Elected Corresponding Member, French National Academy of Sciences, 1987; Officer, French National Order of Merit, 1988; Elected Member, Academia Europaea (European Academy of Sciences), 1988; Laureate of the Seymour Cray Prize, 1988; Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scientist, California Institute of Technology, 1988-1989; Knight, French Order of the Academic Palms, 1994; Laureate, Marcel Dassault Prize from the French National Academy of Sciences, 1996, Knight of the French Order of the ”Legion d’Honneur,” 1998; IMA (Institute of Mathematics and Applications; U.K. equivalent of SIAM) 1999 Distinguished Lecturer at Imperial College (London), Oxford University and Brunel University, 1999; Zienkiewicz Distinguished Lecture at the 1999 Conference on the Mathematics of Finite Element Methods and its Applications, Brunel University, Uxbridge, U.K., 1999; Elected Member of the French National Academy of Technology (French equivalent of the U.S. Nat. Acad. of Eng.), 2000; Glowinski name given to a computer at Michigan State University in recognition for his important contributions in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2000; Chairman of the Scientific Computing-Numerical Analysis Panel in charge of the selection of the invited speakers in the above field, at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians (Beijing), 2002.

Research Interest

Computational and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, Télécommunications