The Department of Civil Engineering and Transport at the Poznań University of Technology and the City of Poznań invite you to an open lecture by Prof. Leszek Demkowicz, titled "Discrete Stability - The Perpetual Challenge in Numerical Approximation of Partial Differential Equations", which will take place on June 13, 2022 at 13:30. The lecture's venue will be the Poznań University of Technology Lecture Center, ul. Jana Pawła II 28, room 123 BT.
Professor Leszek Demkowicz is a world-renowned researcher with outstanding scientific and organizational achievements. He is the deputy director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) and head of the Department of Computational Engineering and Sciences II W.A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. at ICES, being a professor at the Faculty of Aeronautical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, and a professor at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Texas in Austin, USA. He graduated engineering and mathematics studies at the Cracow University of Technology and the Jagiellonian University in Cracow.
He is the author or co-author of several monographs and more than 220 publications in the field of computational mathematics and mechanics. His scientific interests include numerical analysis, adaptive finite element methods, wave propagation issues, including acoustics, elastodynamics and electromagnetics, and CFDs. In the last decade, his research has focused primarily on the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin method.
He was the editor-in-chief of the Computers and Mathematics with Applications journal (Elsevier, 2012-2018), and is a member of 11 international journals. He was the co-founder and first chairman of the Polish Association of Computer Methods in Mechanics (PTMKM, 1991) and was the chairman of the United States Association of Mechanical Computation Methods (USACM, 2016-2018).
Professor Leszek Demkowicz received many awards and distinctions for his scientific achievements. He is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Skills.