University of California, Irvine
Department of Mathematics
Distinguished Lecture Series
2007-2008

Douglas Arnold
Director, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
President-elect, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

Professor Douglas Arnold received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1979. In 1989 he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University. There he also served as co-director of the Center for Computational Mathematics and Applications and as associate director of the Institute for High Performance Computing Applications and was a member of the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry. In 1991 he was awarded the first International Giovanni Sacchi Landriani Prize by the Academy of Arts and Letters of Lombardy Institute in Milan for "outstanding contributions to the field of numerical methods for partial differential equations." In 2002 he was a plenary lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing. In 2008 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Arnold serves or has served on a variety of advisory and scientific boards, including the U.S. National Committee for Mathematics, the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation, the Program Committee for the International Congress of Mathematicians, and the scientific boards of DIMACS, the Centre of Mathematics for Applications in Oslo, and the Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. Arnold has written about 80 papers, serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals, and has been designated as a Highly Cited Author by Thomson ISI. Professor Arnold's research interests include numerical analysis, partial differential equations, mechanics, and in particular, the interplay between these fields.

Stable Discretizations of Partial Differential Equations and Their Geometrical Foundations
Tuesday, June 3rd
Reception: 10:30am
Public Lecture: 11:00am
Natural Sciences II Room 1201

Mixed Finite Element Methods for Elasticity
Wednesday, June 4th
Reception: 3:30pm
Lecture: 4:00pm
MSTB 254