September 9, 2013
The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences has elected ASE/EM Professor Leszek Demkowicz as a foreign member.
Members are considered among the highest scientific authorities for Poland. They meet regularly, including foreign members, holding monthly scientific meetings, where technical papers are read and discussed and determined of scientific, scholarly and/or historical value.
Demkowicz is assistant director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), holds the W. A. “Tex” Moncrief Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences, and is a professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics and a professor of mathematics. He is leader of the ICES Electromagnetics and Acoustics Group, and a member of the ICES Multiscale Modeling Group.
He earned Ph.D. and Sc.D. degrees in mechanics from Cracow University of Technology, Poland. Prior to joining The University of Texas at Austin faculty, he held various positions at Cracow University of Technology.
Demkowicz authored a monograph on adaptive methods (in Polish, 1986), co-authored with Prof. J.T. Oden a textbook on functional analysis (CRS Press, 1996, second edition - 2010) and co-edited three books. He has also authored more than 150 journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and technical reports in the general area of computational mechanics and computational mathematics. He is associate editor of seven international journals. He was the founding member of the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics and served as its first president. He is a fellow of both U.S. and International Associations for Computational Mechanics and a member of several other professional organizations.
His work and scientific interests span numerical analysis, adaptive finite element methods, and wave propagation problems, including acoustics, elastodynamics and electromagnetics. Among other applications, Demkowicz and his group developed original numerical methods based on hp-adaptive finite and boundary element methods with applications to structural vibrations, analysis of acoustics of the human ear, dynamic modeling of gears, analysis of optical waveguides, calculation of radar cross-sections, borehole electromagnetics, and acoustics. His work has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of Energy, Schlumberger, Baker-Hughes, and Boeing.
