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Richard S. Varga
University Professor of Mathematical Sciences
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Education

bullet 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.
bullet A.M., Harvard University, June, 1951.
bullet B.S., Case Institute of Technology, June, 1950.

Professional Experience

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

Honors

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

Professional Societies

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

Editing Activities

Editorial Board for the following journals (present):
bullet Numerische Mathematik (1965-present), Editor-in-Chief (1988-2002)
bullet ETNA (Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis), Editor-in-Chief (1993-present)
bullet Linear Algebra and Its Applications (1968-present)
bullet Constructive Approximation (1983-present)
bullet Journal of Computational Mathematics (China) (1988-present)
bullet Numerical Algorithms (1991-present)
bullet Analysis (1991-present)
bullet ELA (Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra), Advisory Editor (1995-present)
bullet Communications in Applied Analysis (1997-present)
bullet Computational Methods and Function Theory (2001-present)
bullet 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