Olof B. Widlund (born 1938), is a Swedish-American mathematician. He is well known for his leading role in and fundamental contributions to domain decomposition methods. He received his Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1966[1] and is professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of New York University.
Olof Widlund | |
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| Born | 1938 (age 85–86) |
| Employer | New York University |
| Spouse | Nadine Taub |
Publications
edit- Widlund, Olof; Toselli, Andrea (2005). Domain Decomposition Methods - Algorithms and Theory. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics. Vol. 34. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/b137868. ISBN 978-3-540-20696-5.
Recognition
editHe was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to numerical analysis of domain decompositions within computational mathematics and for incubation through his writing and mentorship of a broad international, creative community of practice applied to highly resolved systems simulations".[2]
References
edit- ^ Widlund, Olof B. (1966). Studies on parabolic and alternating-direction-implicit difference schemes. Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Univ., 1966; LIBRIS record
- ^ 2019 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2018-11-07
External links
edit- Olof B. Widlund at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Home page at Courant institute
- Fast Algorithms for Scientific Computing A Symposium in Honor of Olof B. Widlund on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday
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