Research Interests
Ivo M. Babuska
studied civil engineering at the Technical University, Prague where
he received the Dipl. Ing in 1949. In 1951 he received the degree Dr. Tech. From 1949
he studied at Mathematical Institute of Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and then was
the head of the Department of Partial Differential Equations. In 1955, he received a
PhD in Mathematics and in 1960 D.Sc. in Mathematics.
Ivo Babuska worked in the field of mathematics, applied mathematics, numerical
methods, finite element methods, and computational mechanics. Among others in 1955, he
was a leader of the computational analysis of the dam ORLIK (gravitational cca 120
meters high), which was built in early 1960. In 1968, he became a professor at University
of Maryland at College Park, where he retired in 1996 as a Distinguished University Professor.
Ivo Babuska 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 numerous editorial boards for
scientific journals. For his work he received many honors, including four doctorate
honouris causa, the Czechoslovak State prize for Mathematics, the Birkhoff prize, the Humbolt Award of Federal Republic of Germany, Honorary Foreign Member of the Czech Learned Society, the
John von Neuman Medal and the Bolzano Medal. In 2003, Astroid 36060 Babuska was named in his honor by the International Astronomical Union. In 2005, Babuska was awarded the Honorary Medal "De Scientia Et Humanitate Optime Meritis" 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.
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