Robert B. Trull Chair in Engineering
Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engieering Mechanics
Professor, Mathematics
ICES Senior Research Scientist
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
105 W. Dean Keeton Street, SHC 328
Austin, TX 78712
Telephone: 512-471-2156, 3312
Fax: 512-471-8694
Email: babuska@ices.utexas.edu
Ivo M. Babuska studied civil engineering at the Technical University, Prague where he received the Dipl. Ing in 1949. In 1951 he received the degree Dr. Tech. From 1949 he studied at Mathematical Institute of Czechoslovakia Academy of Sciences and then was the head of the Department of Partial Differential Equations. In 1955 he received a PhD in Mathematics and in 1960 D.Sc. in Mathematics.
Ivo Babuska worked in the field of mathematics, applied mathematics, numerical methods, finite element methods, and computational mechanics. Among others in 1955 he was a leader of the computational analysis of the dam ORLIK (gravitational cca 120 meters high) which was built in early 1960. In 1968 he become a professor at University of Maryland at College Park where he retired in 1996 as a Distinguished University Professor.
Ivo Babuska has published more than 260 papers in refereed journals, more than 70 papers in conference proceedings, and several books. He is an invited speaker at major international conferences and is a member numerous editorial boards for scientific journals. For his work he received many honors, among others four doctorate honouris causa, the Czechoslovakia State prize for Mathematics, the Birkhoff prize, the John von Neuman Medal and the Bolzano Medal, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Sciences of Texas.
