David Clark Dobson (born 17 November 1962 in

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) is an American mathematician. Dobson received in 1986 his bachelor's degree from

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and his PhD in 1990 from

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. He was at the

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from 1990 to 1993. He was from 1993 to 1996 an assistant professor, from 1996 to 2000 an assistant Professor and from 1996 to 2000 an associate professor at

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. Since 2002 he is a full professor at the

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. Dobson does research on

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...

, specifically, "computational methods and optimal design for

plasmonic In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillation. Just as light (an optical oscillation) consists of photons, the plasma oscillation consists of plasmons. The plasmon can be considered as a quasiparticle since it arises from the quantiz ...

structures and metamaterials, optimal design of photonic structures and devices, data analysis with physical constraints, and

inverse problems An inverse problem in science is the process of calculating from a set of observations the causal factors that produced them: for example, calculating an image in X-ray computed tomography, source reconstruction in acoustics, or calculating the ...

in acoustics." In 2000 he received the first Felix Klein Prize. From 1997 to 1999 he was a Sloan Fellow.

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