October 30, 2015
Professor Thomas J.R. Hughes has given three national and international plenary lectures this fall.
Most recently he gave the Invited Lecture to the Full Assembly of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Gesamt Akademie) in Vienna, October 16. The lecture was entitled “Patient Specific Computer Modeling and the Predictive Paradigm in Cardiovascular Medicine.”
On September 1 Hughes was in Barcelona, Spain to give the Keynote Plenary Lecture for the XIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity, Fundamentals and Applications, COMPLAS XIII. The lecture was entitled “Isogeometric Phase-field Modeling of Brittle and Ductile Fracture.”
He also gave the Keynote Plenary Lecture to the 13th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics July 26 in San Diego. It was entitled “Isogeometric Analysis: Ten Years After.”
Hughes has given ten invited lectures since January 2015, including talks in Taipei, Taiwan; Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Istanbul, Turkey; Trondheim, Norway; Falls Church, Virginia; and Aachen, Germany.
Hughes holds the Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics and is affiliated with the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES).
