Richard S. Varga
Emeritus University Professor of Mathematical Sciences
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Education

	Ph.D., Harvard University, June, 1954, Advisor: J. L. Walsh, Dissertation title: Properties of a Special Set of Entire Functions and Their Respective Partial Sums.
	A.M., Harvard University, June, 1951.
	B.S., Case Institute of Technology, June, 1950.

Professional Experience

	Director, Institute for Computational Mathematics, 1980-1988; Research Director, 1988-2007.
	University Professor, Kent State University, 1970-2007: Emeritus University Professor at Kent State University, 2007-present.
	Visiting Staff Member, University of Texas at Austin, April, 1972
	Visiting Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology, March, 1972.
	Professor of Mathematics, Case Institute of Technology, 1960-1969.
	Visiting Professor, Technische Hochschule, Munich, Germany, Summer, 1965.
	Visiting Research Associate, California Institute of Technology, Fall, 1963.
	Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Spring, 1963.
	Invited Lecturer, École d'Ete, Paris, Summer, 1961.
	Advisory Mathematician, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, 1954-1960 (last held position).
	Sherman Fairchild Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Spring, 1974.
	Visiting Professor, Technische Universität München, December, 1974.
	Visiting Professor, Colorado State University, April, 1976.
	DeLong Lecturer, University of Colorado, Spring, 1982.
	Senior U.S. von Humboldt Fellow, Universität Karlsruhe, September, 1982 and August, 1987.
	Adjunct Professor to the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Akron, 1983-1990.
	Senior U.S. von Humboldt Fellow, Universität Würzburg, July, 1983 and March, 1984.
	Invited Foreign Specialist, Qing Hua University (Beijing, People's Republic of China), September, 1983.
	Visiting Professor, University of Missouri at Rolla, March, 1985.
	Visiting Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, March, 1985.
	Landsdowne Visitor, University of Victoria, B.C., March, 1987.
	Visiting Professor, Universität Karlsruhe, February, 1988.
	Visiting Professor, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Valparaso, Chile), March 1988.
	Visiting Distinguished Lecturer, Clemson University, February 1992.
	J. James Lecture Series, Butler University, 1993 and 2003.
	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, December, 1997.
	City University of Hong Kong, William Benter Distinguished Lecture, October, 2007.
	Case Western Reserve University, Adjunct Professor to the Mathematics Department, 2008-present.

Honors

	Tau Beta Pi 1949
	Guggenheim Fellowship 1963
	Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar (California Institute of Technology) 1974
	Who's Who in America 1970-present
	Outstanding Educators of America 1972, 1974, 1975
	Dictionary of International Biography 1975
	Men of Achievement 1976
	Visit to Russia (one month) on an exchange between the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Science, USA, 1978
	President's Medal at Kent State University 1981
	von Humboldt Prize (Senior US Award) 1982
	Who's Who in Science and Engineering 1991
	Volume 154-156 of the journal Linear Algebra and Its Applications, dedicated to Gene H. Golub, Richard S. Varga and David M. Young. 1991
	Honorary Doctorate from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) 1991
	Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lille (France) 1993
	Vol. 25 of Numerical Algorithm, dedicated to Richard S. Varga on the occasion of his 70th birthday. 2000
	Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra 2005
	Vol. 42, Nos. 3-4, of Numerical Algorithms, dedicated to Richard Varga, on the occasion of his 77th birthday.  2006
	Vol. 429, issue 10 of the Journal Linear Algebra and its Applications, dedicated to Richard S. Varga on the occasion of his 80^th birthday. 2009.
	Vol. 36, of ETNA (Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis), dedicated to Richard S. Varga on the occasion of his 80^th birthday. 2009-2010.

Professional Societies

	Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
	American Mathematical Society
	Sigma Xi
	International Linear Algebra Society

Editing Activities

Editorial Board for the following journals (present):

	Numerische Mathematik (1965-present), Editor-in-Chief (1988-2002)
	Founding Editor of ETNA (Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis), Editor-in-Chief (1993-2009)
	Linear Algebra and Its Applications (1968-present)
	Constructive Approximation (1983-present)
	Journal of Computational Mathematics (China) (1988-present)
	Numerical Algorithms (1991-present)
	Analysis (1991-present)
	ELA (Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra), Advisory Editor (1995-present)
	Communications in Applied Analysis (1997-present)
	Computational Methods and Function Theory (2001-present)
	Series ''Computational Mathematics'' (R. Graham, J. Stoer, R. S. Varga, Editors), Springer-Verlag (1982-present).

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Department of Mathematical Sciences

Kent State University, Kent, Ohio