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Douglas N. Arnold

McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics
School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
President, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

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. In 2009 and 2010 I serve as president of SIAM, the largest applied mathematics and computational science professional organization in the world. From 2001 to 2008 I directed the IMA, the world's leading interdisciplinary mathematical research institute.

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In Spring 2010 I am teaching MATH 8446.
Selected research publications (complete list available here)
New! Finite element exterior calculus: from Hodge theory to numerical stability   2009
Stability of Lagrange elements for the mixed Laplacian   2009
Geometric decompositions and local bases for spaces of finite element differential forms   2008
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 December 15, 2009