Leszek Demkowicz has been named editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computers and Mathematics with Applications.

Demkowicz is assistant director of ICES and the J.H. Herring Centennial Professor in aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. He is leader of the ICES Electromagnetics and Acoustics Group, and a member of the ICES Multiscale Modeling Group.

Computers & Mathematics with Applications' principal areas of interest include modeling; analysis of mathematical models, primarily formulated in terms of Partial Differential Equations; discretization methods and numerical analysis; numerical linear and nonliner algebra; fast numerical algorithms; algorithms and data structures, adaptivity, computational geometry; software design, code verification and quality assurance; verification and validation.

Demkowicz replaces Ervin Rodin, professor of applied mathematics at Washington University who served as editor-in-chief for the past 37 years.