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Paul Garabedian

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Paul R. Garabedian
Paul Garabedian
Born(1927-08-02)August 2, 1927
DiedMay 13, 2010(2010-05-13) (aged 82)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
ThesisSchwarz's lemma and the Szegő kernel functions (1948)
Doctoral advisorLars Ahlfors

Paul Roesel Garabedian (August 2, 1927 – May 13, 2010) was a 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, which ranged from elegant existence proofs for potential theory and conformal mappings[3] to the design and optimization of stellarators.[4] Garabedian was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.[5]

Education and career

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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.[6] It was at Brown University that he met his longtime colleague and collaborator, Frances Bauer.[7]

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

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Books

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  • 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), ISBN 0-387-07029-X.[10]

References

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