Thomas Y. Hou

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Thomas Yizhao Hou (* 1962 ) is a Chinese - American mathematician who specializes in numerical mathematics.

Hou studied mathematics at the South China University of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1982 and received his doctorate in 1987 from the University of California, Los Angeles , with Björn Engquist ( Convergence of Particle Methods for Euler and Boltzmann Equations with Oscillatory Solutions ). In 1989 he became Assistant Professor and 1992 Associate Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University . From 1993 he was an associate professor and from 1998 professor at Caltech . Since 2004 he has been the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Numerical Mathematics there .

From 2002 to 2006 he was also a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and from 2009 visiting professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was also visiting professor at the École normal supérieure , the University of Paris VI , the Mittag-Leffler Institute , the Institute for Advanced Study (1991/92) and the National University of Singapore.

He deals with multiscale analysis, adaptive data analysis, numerical hydrodynamics (questions of blow-up in Euler and Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions, interface problems, vortex dynamics, multiphase flow). In 2001 he received the James H. Wilkinson Prize . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011). From 1990 to 1992 he was a Sloan Research Fellow. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

He was the founding editor of the SIAM Journal on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation in 2002 and is co-editor and one of the founders of Advances in Adaptive Data Analysis. From 1998 to 2001 he was editor of Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis and from 1992 to 1997 he was co-editor of the SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis.

Fonts

  • with Yalchin Efendiev Multiscale finite element methods: theory and applications , Springer Verlag 2009
  • Editor with Chun Liu, Jian-Gao Liu Multi-scale phenomena in complex fluids: modeling, analysis and numerical simulation , World Scientific 2009 (lectures at Fudan University in Shanghai)

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  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Hou, Thomas Y.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hou, Thomas Yizhao
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1962