Roland Glowinski

Roland Glowinski, Oberwolfach 2006

Roland Glowinski (born March 9, 1937 in Paris ) is a French mathematician. His specialty is applied mathematics .

Life

Glowinski, the son of Jewish Polish immigrants who was hidden by the French in the country during the Second World War , studied mathematics, physics and chemistry at the École polytechnique , graduated in 1960 and received his diploma as electrical engineer from the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications in 1963 (now Télécom ParisTech ) in Paris. From 1963 to 1968 he was an engineer at the French Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), but was not satisfied with his work for the radio and switched to computer science and applied mathematics and completed a postgraduate degree in mathematics in 1967 and graduated with the Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA). From 1968 to 1970 he was a research engineer at the Institut de recherche en informatique et en automatique (IRIA). In 1970 he received his doctorate with Jacques-Louis Lions at the University of Paris VI with a thesis on integral equations in filtering in color television technology. From 1968 to 1985 he was a lecturer at the École polytechnique, 1970 to 1985 director of the INRIA (formerly IRIA) and 1970 to 1985 and 1992 to 1994 professor of applied mathematics at the University of Paris VI, where he headed the mathematics faculty from 1981 to 1985. He has been Professor Emeritus there since 1998. Since 1985 he has also been a professor at the University of Houston , where he has taught mathematics and mechanics at the Cullen College of Engineering since 1986 .

Since 1986 he has also been an adjunct professor at Rice University in Houston . Since 2001 he has also been teaching at Jyväskylä University in Finland . From 1990 to 1996 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Électricité de France (EDF). From 1992 to 1994 he was director of the Center Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS) in Toulouse . Since 1990 he has been an advisor to the IFP Énergies nouvelles (formerly Institut Français du Pétrole ).

He deals with numerics of partial differential equations and variation inequalities with applications in mechanics and engineering, for example numerical fluid mechanics. He had connections to the aircraft industry since a stint at Boeing in 1960 and later u. a. in the numerical simulation of transonic flow by Dassault .

In 1983 he was a guest speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw ( Numerical solution of nonlinear boundary value problems by variational methods. Applications ).

Roland Glowinski has been married to Angela Rimok since 1963.

Honors

In 2004 he received the Theodore von Kármán Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), in 1988 the Seymour Cray Award and in 1996 the Prix Marcel Dassault of the Académie des Sciences . In 1980 he received the silver medal of the city of Paris. He has been a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences since 1987, of the Académie des technologies and the Academia Europaea since 2000 . In 1988 he became an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite , in 1994 Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and in 1998 Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 1988/89 he was Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Caltech . He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

Fonts

Numerical methods for nonlinear variational problems, Springer Verlag 1984, 2008
with Jacques-Louis Lions, Raymond Trémolières: Numerical Analysis of variational inequalities, North Holland 1981
with Jacques-Louis Lions, Jiwen He: Exact and approximate controllability for distributed parameter systems: a numerical approach, Cambridge University Press 2008
with Michel Fortin: Augmented Lagrangian methods: applications to the numerical solution of boundary-value problems, North Holland 1983

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personal data
SURNAME	Glowinski, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris