Computational Mathematics Faculty and their Research Areas

• Lynn S. Bennethum Ph.D., Purdue University, 1994 - Mathematical modeling of porous media, constitutive modeling of swelling porous media (e.g. clay, polymers, membranes), continuum mechanics, numerically solving partial differential equations.
• Leopoldo Franca Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987 - Finite element methods, fluids and structural mechanics.
• Harvey Greenberg Ph.d., Johns Hopkins University, 1968 - Optimization, computational biology.
• Andrew Knyazev Ph.D., Institute of Numerical Mathematics Russian Academy of Sciences, 1985 - numerical linear algebra, iterative solution of large sparse linear systems and eigenproblems, bounds for eigenvalues, numerical solution of partial differential equations, parallel computation, homogenization, numerical methods in linear elasticity, domain decomposition, embedding and multigrid methods, finite element methods, optimization, regularization of ill-posed problems.
• Jan Mandel Ph.D., Charles University, Czechoslovakia, 1983 - Numerical solution of partial differential equations, large scale computations, supercomputing and parallel methods, domain decomposition and multigrid methods, fast iterative methods for problems in structural mechanics and electromagnetics.