Paul Garabedian
Paul Roesel Garabedian (Armenian: Փոլ Գարաբեդյան, August 2, 1927, Cincinnati – May 13, 2010, Manhattan) was an applied mathematician and numerical analyst.[1] Garabedian was the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.[2] He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics and plasma physics (design and optimization of stellarators).[3] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.[4]
Education and career
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Garabedian received a Bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1946 and a Master's degree from the Harvard University in 1947, both in mathematics. He received his Ph.D., also from Harvard University, in 1948 under the direction of Lars Ahlfors.[5] It was at Brown University that he met his longtime colleague and collaborator, Frances Bauer.[6]
In 1949 Garabedian joined the faculty at the University of California as an Assistant Professor and became Associate Professor in 1952. In 1956, he moved to Stanford University as a Professor of mathematics. In 1959 he moved to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences [later renamed the Courant Institute] at New York University. In 1978 he was appointed the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. In a long and fruitful academic career, Garabedian supervised 27 Ph.D. theses. The first was in 1953 (Edward McLeod) and the last came in 1997 (Connie Chen).
Honors and awards
- Sloan Fellowship, 1961–63
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1966[7]
- Fairchild Distinguished Scholar Caltech, 1975
- NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award by NASA Langley Research Center, 1976
- Boris Pregel Award, New York Academy of Sciences, 1980
- Birkhoff Prize of the AMS and SIAM, 1983[8]
- Theodore von Kármán Prize, SIAM, 1989
Books
- Partial Differential Equations, 2nd ed., Chelsea Pub. Co. (1998). ISBN 0-8218-1377-3
- Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium and Stability of Stellarators, with F. Bauer and O. Betancourt. Springer-Verlag (1984). ISBN 0-387-90966-4
- Supercritical Wing Sections II, with F. Bauer, D. Korn and A. Jameson. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer-Verlag (1975).[9]
References
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External links
- Garabedian's Curriculum Vitae
- Paul Garabedian at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- New York Times obituary
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles containing Armenian-language text
- 1927 births
- 2010 deaths
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Ethnic Armenian mathematicians
- American people of Armenian descent
- Harvard University alumni
- Brown University alumni
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
- Stanford University Department of Mathematics faculty
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Numerical analysts
- Computational fluid dynamicists
- Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellows of the American Physical Society
