Roland Glowinski

Roland Glowinski was a French-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from Jacques-Louis Lions and was known for his work in applied mathematics, in particular numerical solution and applications of partial differential equations and variational inequalities. He was a member of the French [Academy of Sciences] and held an endowed chair at the University of Houston from 1985. Glowinski wrote many books on the subject of mathematics. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American [Mathematical Society].

Selected publications

with Jacques-Louis Lions and Raymond Trémolières: Numerical Analysis of variational inequalities, North Holland 1981
Numerical methods for nonlinear variational problems, Springer Verlag 1984, 2008;
with Michel Fortin: Augmented Lagrangian methods : applications to the numerical solution of boundary-value problems, North Holland 1983
with Patrick Le Tallec: , Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1989
with Jacques-Louis Lions and Jiwen He: Exact and approximate controllability for distributed parameter systems: a numerical approach, Cambridge University Press 2008