Paul Roesel Garabedian (August 2, 1927, Cincinnati – May 13, 2010, Manhattan) was an applied mathematician and numerical analyst.[1] Garabedian was the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.[2] He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics and plasma physics (design and optimization of stellarators).[3] He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.[4]
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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Garabedian received a Bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1946 and a Master's degree from the Harvard University in 1947, both in mathematics. He received his Ph.D., also from Harvard University, in 1948 under the direction of Lars Ahlfors.[5] It was at Brown University that he met his longtime colleague and collaborator, Frances Bauer.[6]
In 1949 Garabedian joined the faculty at the University of California as an Assistant Professor and became Associate Professor in 1952. In 1956, he moved to Stanford University as a Professor of mathematics. In 1978 he was appointed the Director-Division of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. In a long and fruitful academic career, Garabedian has supervised 27 Ph.D. theses. The first was in 1953 (Edward McLeod) and the last came in 1997 (Connie Chen).