Leopoldo Penna Franca
Leopoldo Penna Franca | |
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| Born | April 7, 1959 |
| Died | September 19, 2012 (aged 53) |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Known for | finite element methods |
| Spouse(s) | Lucia Valadão de Miranda Penna Franca |
| Children | 2 |
Leopoldo Penna Franca (born April 7, 1959 died September 19, 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)[1] was a Brazilian-American mathematician. He received his PhD in 1987 from Stanford University in Engineering under Thomas J. R. Hughes. After graduation, he worked at the pt:Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica - LNCC in Brazil. From 1993 to 2011, he was a full Professor and Researcher of Mathematics at the University of Colorado Denver. From 2008 to 2010 he was a visiting Professor and Researcher of Mathematics at the at the in collaboration to . From 2011 until 2012, he worked for IBM Research Brazil. He was known for his work on stabilized finite element methods. He was a recipient of the . Received in 1999 the for "outstanding accomplishments in computational mechanics, particularly in the published literature, by a researcher 40 years old or younger".[2] He was listed[3] as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.
References[]
- ^ Leopoldo Franca, 1959-2012
- ^ "Gallagher Young Investigator Award, 1999 – Leopoldo Franca". Archived from the original on 2012-11-17. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
- ^ ISI Highly Cited Author – Leo Franca
External links[]
- Leopoldo Penna Franca at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Leopoldo Penna Franca publications indexed by Google Scholar
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