Paul Roesel Garabedian (August 2, 1927May 13, 2010) was a

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and

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. Garabedian was the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the

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. He is known for his contributions to the fields of

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and

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, which ranged from elegant

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for

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and

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s to the design and optimization of

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s. Garabedian was elected a member of the

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in 1975.

Education and career

Born in

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, Garabedian received a bachelor's degree from

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in 1946 and a master's degree from the

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in 1947, both in mathematics. He received his Ph.D., also from Harvard University, in 1948 under the direction of

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. It was at Brown University that he met his longtime colleague and collaborator, Frances Bauer. In 1949 Garabedian joined the faculty at the

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as an Assistant Professor and became Associate Professor in 1952. In 1956, he moved to

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as a Professor of mathematics. In 1959 he moved to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences ater renamed the Courant Instituteat New York University. In 1978 he was appointed the Director-Division of

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at the

, 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 The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

, 1961–63 *

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

, 1966 *Fairchild Distinguished Scholar

Caltech The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...

, 1975 *NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award by

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, 1976 *

Boris Pregel Boris Pregel (russian: Борис Юльевич Прегель; 24 January 1893 – 7 December 1976) was a Russian Empire-born Jewish engineer and dealer in uranium and radium. He was born in Odessa, in the Russian Empire, and studied engineering ...

Award,

New York Academy of Sciences The New York Academy of Sciences (originally the Lyceum of Natural History) was founded in January 1817 as the Lyceum of Natural History. It is the fourth oldest scientific society in the United States. An independent, nonprofit organization wit ...

, 1980 *

Birkhoff Prize The George David Birkhoff Prize in applied mathematics is awarded – jointly by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) – in honour of George David Birkhoff (1884–1944). It is curr ...

of the

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and

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, 1983 *

Theodore von Kármán Prize The Theodore von Kármán Prize in applied mathematics is awarded every fifth year to an individual in recognition of his or her notable application of mathematics to mechanics and/or the engineering sciences. This award was established and endowe ...

, 1989

Books

*''Partial Differential Equations'', 2nd ed., Chelsea Pub. Co. (1998). *''Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium and Stability of Stellarators'', with F. Bauer and O. Betancourt. Springer-Verlag (1984). *''Supercritical Wing Sections II'', with F. Bauer, D. Korn and A. Jameson. ''Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems'', Springer-Verlag (1975), .Abstract of ''Supercritical Wing Sections II''
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References

External links

*Garabedian'
Curriculum Vitae
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