Ivo Babuška

Ivo M. Babuška (born March 22, 1926 in Prague) is a Czech-American mathematician, noted for his studies of the finite element method and the proof of the Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem in partial differential equations.[1] One of the celebrated result in the finite elements is the so-called Ladyzenskaja–Babuška–Brezzi (LBB) condition (also referred to in some literature as Banach–Necas–Babuška (BNB)), which provides sufficient conditions for a stable mixed formulation. The LBB condition has guided mathematicians and engineers to develop state-of-the-art formulations for many technologically important problems like Darcy flow, Stokes flow, incompressible Navier–Stokes, nearly incompressible elasticity. He is also well known for his work on adaptive methods and the p- and hp-versions of the finite element method.[2] He also developed the mathematical framework for the partition of unity methods.

Life

Ivo Babuška was born on March 22, 1926 in Prague the son of architect Milan Babuška (who designed the National Technical Museum (Prague) and his wife Marie.[3] He studied civil engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he received the Dipl. Ing in 1949.[3] In 1951 he received the degree Dr. Tech.; his doctoral dissertation was supervised by Eduard Čech and Vladimir Knichal. From 1949 he studied at Mathematical Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and then was the head of the Department of Partial Differential Equations. In 1955, he received a C.Sc (=Ph.D.) in mathematics and in 1960 D.Sc. in mathematics.[3] He is married to Renata and they had two children, a girl, Lenka and a boy, Vit.[3][4]

Work

Babuška works in the field of mathematics, applied mathematics, numerical methods, finite element methods, and computational mechanics. In 1968, he became a professor at University of Maryland, College Park in the mathematics department, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. He retired in 1996 as a Distinguished University Professor. In 1989 he co-founded the company ESRD, Inc. which developed the StressCheck finite element software, putting into practice much of Babuška's research and contributions to the finite element method.[5][6] After his time at the University of Maryland, he moved to the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin where he currently holds the Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering. Babuška has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals, more than 70 papers in conference proceedings, and several books. He is an invited speaker at major international conferences and is a member of numerous editorial boards for scientific journals. In 2018 he retired as Professor Emeritus. His doctoral students include Christoph Schwab and Michael Vogelius.

Honors

He has received many honors for his work, including five doctorates honoris causa, member of European Academy of Sciences (2003), Fellow of SIAM and ICAM, the Czechoslovak State prize for Mathematics, the Leroy P. Steele Prize (2012),[4] the Birkhoff Prize (1994), the Humboldt Award of Federal Republic of Germany, the Neuron Prize Czech Republic, Honorary Foreign Member of the Czech Learned Society and the Bolzano Medal.[3] In 2003, asteroid 36060 Babuška was named in his honor by the International Astronomical Union.[3] In 2005, Babuska was awarded the Honorary Medal "De Scientia Et Humanitate Optime Meritis", received the ICAM Congress Medal (Newton Gauss, 2016) and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He is also a member of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Sciences of Texas.

References
  1. "Babuska-Lax-Milgram theorem - Encyclopedia of Mathematics".
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-26. Retrieved 2007-09-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Segeth, Karel (2011). "Honorary Editor of Applied Mathematics Professor Ivo Babuška is Eighty-Five" (PDF). Applications of Mathematics. 56 (2): 173–176. doi:10.1007/s10492-011-0001-8. hdl:10338.dmlcz/141436.
  4. Segeth, Karel (2015). "Professor Ivo Babuška" (PDF). Applications of Mathematics. 60 (5): 469–472. doi:10.1007/s10492-015-0106-6. hdl:10338.dmlcz/144385.
  5. ESRD, Inc. company history Archived 2010-06-21 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-09-11. Retrieved 2010-08-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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