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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Numerical Analysis, Optimization, Simulation,Analysis, Differential Equations,Computer Architecture, Embedded and Massively Parallel Systems |
| Keywords | Finite Elements, A Posteriori Error Estimates, Multilevel Iterative Methods, Adaptive Mesh Generation, Parallel Computation |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | La Jolla |
| Institution | University of California, San Diego |
| Institute | Department of Mathematics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Gabriel Wittum | Lehrstuhl Technische Simulation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg |
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| Prof. Dr. Harry Yserentant | Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2008 |
Programme(s)
| 2007 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Prof. Dr. Randolph Edwin Bank is one of the best known researchers in the area of numerical mathematics worldwide. He publishes in the area of numerics of partial differential equations since almost three decades. His publications are internationally well esteemed. The main focus of his work is the area of adaptive finite-element methods and multigrid solvers. The close connection of theory and practice is a particularly remarkable characteristics of his oeuvre. He has systematically worked on the whole huge area of adaptive finite-element methods and multigrid solvers and given major contributions to a lot of topics there. A unique feature to his work is the practical implementation of the algorithms and approaches developed in his simulation software system PLTMG. This software system which he has been developing continuously for the last 20 years is still maintained by himself. Since PLTMG was the first software of this kind and is publicly available, it is the most wide spread software in this area and the basic sample for all other software which has been developed later. Randolph Bank is the pioneer of this whole area. He developed many of the basic techniques and algorithms in handling adaptive methods. The scientific work of Professor Bank starts with elaborating components and strcutures for adaptive finite element and multigrid methods. He introduces one of the first error estimators for finite element methods. Furthermore, he manages to introduce novel multigrid solvers as the hierarchical basis multigrid method, or certain multigraph methods. He also makes major contributions to the area of algebraic multigrid and finds new approaches for successfully parallelizing these methods. Professor Bank's work has a big impact on application areas. He has made major contributions to the area of semiconductor device simulation, computational fluid mechanics and computational problems in molecular biology. Already in the beginning of his career, he was able to substantially accelerate the computation of memory chips, which was decisive for their timely development. |