Roland Glowinski#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 421 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.math.uh.edu/~roland |
Roland Glowinski passed away January 26, 2022.
Positions Held
- since 2001 Docent Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- since 1998 Professor Emmeritus, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France
- since 1986 Adjunct Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
- since 1986 Cullen Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering University of Houston
- 1985 - 1986 M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston
- 1981 - 1985 Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, University Paris VI
- 1970 - 1985 and 1992-1994 Professor of Applied Mathematics, University Paris VI
- 1970 - 1985 Scientific Director, INRIA, France
- 1968 - 1985 Lecturer, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
- 1968 - 1971 Research Engineer, IRIA, France
- 1963 - 1968 Engineer, French Broadcasting System, Paris, France
Fields of Scholarship
- Applied mathematics
- Numerical solution
- Applications of partial differential equations
- Variational inequalities
Honours and Awards
- 1980 Silver Medal of the City of Paris
- 1987 Officer of the French Order of the National Merit
- 1995 Knight of the French Order of the Academic Palms
- 1998 Knight of the French Order of the “Légion d’Honneur”
- 1988/1989 Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scientist, California Institute of Technology
- 1988 Laureate of the Seymour Cray Prize-France
- 1996 Laureate of the “Grand Prix Marcel Dassault” of the French National Academy of Sciences
- Laureate of the 2004 SIAM Theodore Von Kármán Prize
- 1987 Corresponding Member, French National Academy of Sciences
- 2005 Member, French National Academy of Sciences
- 1990 Member, Academia Europaea
- 2000 Member, French National Academy of Technology
- Member of the Morningside Group: 2003-present (the Morningside Group has been founded and is chaired by S.T. Yau, Fields Medal 1982; its mission is the promotion of Computational and Applied Mathematics in the People Republic of China)
- 2004 Honorary Doctor, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
