L. Ridgway Scott

L. RIDGWAY SCOTT is Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago,

where he was a faculty member for over two decades.

Scott obtained the Ph. D. degree in Mathematics from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also held faculty

positions at the University of Michigan, at Penn State University,

and at the University of Houston, and he was a researcher at

Brookhaven National Laboratory for three years.

Scott has been a leader in research devoted to fundamental

properties of the finite element method, the most widely used

computational technique for engineering design and analysis.

Professor Scott has published over one hundred eighty papers, and

four books, extending over biophysics, parallel computing, and

fundamental computational aspects of structural mechanics, fluid

dynamics, nuclear engineering, and computational chemistry.

Professor Scott has held visiting positions at Rice University,

the University of Bonn (West Germany), the Universities of

Minnesota and Wisconsin, Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), Los Alamos

National Laboratory and NASA Langley Research Center.