LIFELONG CAREER ADDS UP TO TOP HONORS
FOR UH MATH PROFESSOR
Professor Roland Glowinski Awarded Theodore von Kármán
Prize
HOUSTON, July 12, 2004 – Whether applying
math to the medical or petroleum industries, UH Professor Roland
Glowinski considers his career to be one of his greatest rewards.
Most recently, this impressive career has earned him another kind
of reward – the 2004 Theodore von Kármán Prize.
Named for revered mathematician Theodore von Kármán,
this international honor in the field of mathematics was established
in 1968 and is only awarded every five years. Presented for notable
applications of math made to mechanics or the engineering sciences
in the five to 10 years preceding each award, the 2004 Theodore
von Kármán Prize will be presented to Glowinski at
the 2004 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Annual
Meeting in Portland, Ore., at the Oregon Convention Center in the
Oregon Ballroom 203-204, Thursday, July 15.
While the award may be given either for a single notable achievement
or for a collection of such achievements, Glowinski was recognized
by the selection committee for his “sustained outstanding
contributions to mechanics and applied and computational mathematics,
especially in the area of complex problems in fluid mechanics, many
in the spirit of those of Theodore von Kármán.”
As part of the $1,000 prize, Glowinski will give a 25-minute special
lecture at 3 p.m., Wednesday, July 14, titled “On the Numerical
Simulation of Incompressible Viscous Flow with Moving or Free Boundary:
Applications.”
Well known for his research on new mathematic models of particular
flow and for the application of mathematical and computational methods
to the design of a new class of heart valves, Glowinski came to
the University of Houston in 1985 and currently holds a Hugh Roy
and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professorship in Mathematics, as well as
being a mechanical engineering professor at UH. He also has been
a docent professor since 2001 of the mathematics of information
technology at the internationally recognized research campus of
the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland.
No stranger to international accolades, Glowinski has had a long
and distinguished career in mathematics, teaching and research on
both sides of the Atlantic, having been born in Paris, France, and
receiving his Ph.D. there from the University Pierre and Marie Curie
(Paris VI). A corresponding member of the French National Academy
of Sciences, Glowinski counts among his numerous international awards
Knight of the French Order of the Academic Palms and induction as
a chevalier in the Legion d’Honneur of France, the latter
of which is the French equivalent to knighthood.
More recently, Glowinski received an honorary doctorate from the
University of Jyvaskyla, where he has enjoyed a long association
with the university and has been instrumental in facilitating the
exchange of post-doctoral and graduate students between the University
of Jyvaskyla and the University of Houston – a reciprocal
relationship that has flourished over the past six to seven years.
Glowinski also is a professor emeritus at the University Pierre
and Marie Curie (Paris VI) and an adjunct professor of computational
and applied mathematics at Rice University.
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