Professor Douglas Arnold MS, PhD

Douglas Arnold is McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota and Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Cambridge. He obtained his PhD from University of Chicago in 1979. Arnold recently served as president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics after seven years as director of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications. Arnold's research interests include numerical analysis, partial differential equations, mechanics, and the interplay them. He focuses on the development and understanding of methods for computational simulation of physical phenomena ranging from deformation of structures to the collision of black holes.

Arnold is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Mathematical Society. He was the first winner of the Sacchi Landriani Prize, has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, is designated a Highly Cited author, and is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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