| Paul R. Garabedian | |
| Birth Date: | August 2, 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Death Place: | Manhattan, New York |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |
| Thesis Title: | Schwarz's lemma and the Szegő kernel functions |
| Thesis Url: | http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990038471320203941/catalog |
| Thesis Year: | 1948 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Lars Ahlfors |
Paul Roesel Garabedian (August 2, 1927May 13, 2010) was a 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, which ranged from elegant existence proofs for potential theory and conformal mappings[3] to the design and optimization of stellarators.[4] Garabedian was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.[5]
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.[6] It was at Brown University that he met his longtime colleague and collaborator, Frances Bauer.[7]
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 1959 he moved to the Institute of Mathematical Sciences [later renamed the Courant Institute] at New York University. 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 supervised 27 Ph.D. theses. The first was in 1953 (Edward McLeod) and the last came in 1997 (Connie Chen).