{"id":142,"date":"2012-09-19T22:15:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T02:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2012-10-24T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:37:08","slug":"l-ridgway-scott","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi-tsunami\/people\/l-ridgway-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"L. Ridgway Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"
Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Chicago<\/address>\n

L. Ridgway Scott has been Professor of Computer Science<\/a> and of Mathematics at the University of Chicago<\/a> since 1998, and the Louis Block Professor since 2001. He obtained the B.S. from Tulane University in 1969 and the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973.<\/p>\n

Professor Scott was a founding member of the Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory at University of Michigan, an early center for the study of parallel computing and a \u201cbeta-site\u201d for one of the first-generation of hypercube computers, the nCUBE-1. He also helped to establish a program in parallel scientific computing at the Pennsylvania State University, which became a \u201cbeta-site\u201d for the second-generation Intel hypercube, the iPSC-2. He co-founded what later became the W. G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Penn State.<\/p>\n

At the University of Chicago, Professor Scott is continuing his research in all of these areas. He was a Member of the Executive Committee of the ASCI Flash Center and is a founding member of the Institute for Biophysical Dynam- ics at the University of Chicago. He was a founding co-Director of the Argonne\/Chicago Computation Institute which was established in spring, 1999. He was also the director of the University of Chicago partnership in the The National Partership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) <\/a>based at SCSC\/UCSD.<\/p>\n

Professor Scott has published over one hundred thirty papers, and three books, extending over biophysics, parallel computing and fundamental computational aspects of structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, nuclear engineering, and computational chemistry. This includes boundary element, finite difference, finite element and spectral techniques for solving partial differential equations.<\/p>\n

Sample publications<\/h3>\n
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  • V. Girault and L. Ridgway Scott,\u00a0Finite element discretizations of a two-dimensional grade-two fluid model.\u00a0MMAN, 35<\/strong>:1007-1053, 2001.<\/li>\n
  • V. Girault and L. Ridgway Scott,\u00a0Analysis of a two-dimensional grade-two fluid model with a tangential boundary condition.\u00a0J. Math. Pures Appl.<\/em>, 78<\/strong>:981-1011, 1999.<\/li>\n
  • J. L. Bona, W. G. Pritchard, and L. R. Scott,\u00a0Numerical schemes for a model for nonlinear dispersive waves.\u00a0J. Comp Phys.<\/em>, 60<\/strong>:167-186, 1985.<\/li>\n
  • J. L. Bona, W. G. Pritchard, and L. R. Scott,\u00a0A comparison of solutions of two model equations for long waves.\u00a0In\u00a0Fluid Dynamics in Astrophysics and Geophysics<\/em>, N. R. Lebovitz, ed.,\u00a0volume 20, pages 235-267. Providence: Amer. Math. Soc., 1983.<\/li>\n
  • J. L. Bona, W. G. Pritchard, and L. R. Scott,\u00a0An evaluation of a model equation for water waves.\u00a0Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A<\/em> 302<\/strong>, pages 457-510, 1981.<\/li>\n
  • J. L. Bona, W. G. Pritchard, and L. R. Scott,\u00a0Solitary-wave interaction.\u00a0Physics of Fluids<\/em>, 23<\/strong>:438-441, 1980.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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