Joseph E. Pasciak Professor of Mathmatics Texas A&M University

Education:

• B.A. Mathematics, Northeastern University, 1973
• Ph.D. Mathematics, Cornell University, 1977

Positions Held:

• Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, 1996-present.
• Mathematician, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1982-1996
• Associate Mathematician, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1979-1982
• Assistant Mathematician, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1977-1979

Other Appointments:

• Visiting Scientist: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, July, 1999--2008.
• Adjunct Professor: Texas A&M University, 1994--1996.
• Visiting Scientist: Mathematical Sciences Institute, Cornell University, July, 1994.
• Adjunct Professor: State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1986-1996.
• Visiting Scientist: Center for Scientific Computation, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, September--December 1983.
• Visiting Scientist: Mathematical Sciences Institute, Cornell University, August 1989.
• Analyst and Programmer, Far Field Inc., Sudbury, Massachusetts, Summers 1973-1977
• Programmer, Avco Everett Research Laboratory, Everett, Massachusetts, 2 years during 1969-1973

Research Interests

• Large scale serial and parallel scientific computation
• Numerical and iterative methods for partial differential equations
• Multigrid and domain decomposition methods
• Electromagnetic problems and mixed finite element methods
• Perfectly matched layer far field approximation for scattering problems.

Professional activities:

• Organized: A conference honoring James H. Bramble: 50 years of research and beyond, Texas A+M University, May 2-3, 2008
• Organized: A Scientific Celebration of the 60th Birthday of Professor Richard E. Ewing, Texas A+M, November 17-18, 2006 (with Raytcho Lazarov and Guan Quin).
• Organized: The Eighth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation, Texas A+M, Nov. 14-17, 2006.
• Associate editor for the Mathematics of Computation, (1/1/98-12/31/07)
• Associate editor for Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics, (1/1/00-12/31/06)
• Organizing committee: Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods (1991-present).
• Editor: Proceedings Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods.
• Organized and hosted 4 "Finite Element Circuses" at Brookhaven Laboratory.
• Organized the Finite Element Rodeo at Texas A&M (March 1998).
• Member: SIAM.

Awards:

• Recipient of the Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering 2007 (CMMSE2007) prize for "Excellence in Research".
• Recipient of the "Outstanding Science Communicator Award" Texas A&M University Chapter of Sigma Xi, April 2010.
• Texas A&M University Association of Former Students, Distinguished achievement award for research (university level), 2011.

PH.D. Students:

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