Olof B. Widlund (born 1938), is a Swedish-American mathematician. He is well known for his leading role in and fundamental contributions to domain decomposition methods. He received his Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1966 and is professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of New York University.

Publications

Recognition

He was included in the 2019 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to numerical analysis of domain decompositions within computational mathematics and for incubation through his writing and mentorship of a broad international, creative community of practice applied to highly resolved systems simulations".

Olof B. Widlund

References

External links

Home page at Courant institute

Fast Algorithms for Scientific Computing A Symposium in Honor of Olof B. Widlund on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

Olof B. Widlund

20th-century American mathematicians

21st-century American mathematicians

Swedish mathematicians

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty

American people of Swedish descent

Uppsala University alumni

1938 births

Living people

Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Fellows of the American Mathematical Society

Olof B. Widlund