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Douglas N. Arnold

McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota

I am a mathematician and educator. My research mostly concerns numerical analysis, partial differential equations, mechanics, and the interplay between these fields. Much of my recent effort has been directed toward the development of the finite element exterior calculus. I am immediate past president of SIAM, the largest applied mathematics and computational science professional organization in the world, having served as president in 2009–10. From 2001 to 2008 I directed the IMA, the world's leading interdisciplinary mathematical research institute.

CBMS/NSF Conference on Finite Element Exterior Calculus
I will be giving an introduction to FEEC in 10 lectures, June 11-15, 2012 at ICERM in Providence, RI

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During Spring 2012 I am teaching MATH 8446.
Selected research publications (complete list available here)
       Mixed finite element approximation of the vector Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions   2011
The serendipity family of finite elements   2010
Finite element exterior calculus: from Hodge theory to numerical stability   2010
Finite element exterior calculus, homological techniques and applications   2006
     “Any young (or not so young) mathematician who spends the time to master this paper
      will have tools that will be useful for his or her entire career.”
— Math Reviews
Differential complexes and numerical stability   2002
Unified analysis of discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems   2002
Mixed finite elements for elasticity   2002
Multigrid in H(div) and H(curl)   2000
A uniformly accurate finite element method for the Reissner-Mindlin plate   1989
A stable finite element for the Stokes equations   1984
An interior penalty finite element method with discontinuous elements   1982

Updated February 8, 2012