



Ronald A. DeVore
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College Station, TX 77840 USA |
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Education
| Ph.D. | Mathematics | Ohio State University | 1967 |
| B.S. | Mathematics | Eastern Michigan University | 1964 |
Experience
| 2010 – Present | Distinguished Professor | Texas A&M University |
| 2008 – Present | Walter E. Koss Professor | Texas A&M University |
| 2005 – Present | Robert L. Sumwalt Distinguished Professor Emeritus | University of South Carolina |
| 1999 – 2005 | Director, Industrial Mathematics Institute | University of South Carolina |
| 1986 – 2005 | Robert L. Sumwalt Professor of Mathematics | University of South Carolina |
| 1977 – 1986 | Professor | University of South Carolina |
| 1974 – 1977 | Professor | Oakland University |
| 1970 – 1974 | Associate Professor | Oakland University |
| 1968 – 1970 | Assistant Professor | Oakland University |
Research
Current Projects
- Model Classes, Approximation, and Metrics for Dynamic Processing of Urban Terrain Data
- Collaboration for Mathematical Geosciences: Development of New Statistical Learning Theory and Techniques for Improvement of Convection Parameterization in Climate Models
- Software for Generating Geometrically and Topologically Accurate Urban Terrain Models Using Implicit Methods
- Fundamental Questions in Compressed Sensing
- Fast Computational Algorithms in High Dimensions
- Computational Foundation for Investigations in Capturing Sparsity in Very High Dimensions
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Honors and Other Special Scientific Recognition
- 2011 - La Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris Gold Medal
- Elected 2007 - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 2007 - SPIE Wavelet Pioneer Award
- 2006 - Plenary Lecturer, Internation Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid
- 2004 - Honorary Doctorate, RWTH-Aachen
- 2003 - ICS Hot Paper Award
- 2002 - Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
- Elected 2001 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2001 - Bulgarian Gold Medal of Science
- 2000 - Journal of Complexity Outstanding Paper Award
- 1975-1976 - Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
- 1964-1967 - NDEA Fellow
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Selected Publications
- (with A. Chkifa, A. Cohen, R. DeVore, and C. Schwab), Sparse Adaptive Taylor Approximation Algorithms for Parametric and Stochastic Elliptic PDEs, submitted.
- (with A. Belochitski, P. Binev, M. Fox-Rabinovitz, V. Krasnopolski, and P. Lamby) Tree Approximation of the Long Wave Radiation Parameterization in the NCAR CAM Global Climate Model, Journal of Computation and Applied Mathematics, to appear.
- (with P. Binev, W. Dahmen, P. Lamby, D. Savu, R. Sharpley) Compressed Sensing and Electron Microscopy, to appear in "Imaging at the Edge - Nanoscale Imaging in Electron Microscopy", Springer, 2011.
- (with P. Binev, A. Cohen, W. Dahmen, G. Petrova, and P. Wojtaszczyk), Convergence Rates for Greedy Algorithms in Reduced Basis Methods, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 43 (2011), 1457-1472.
- (with A. Cohen, I. Daubechies, G. Kerkyacharian, and D. Picard), Capturing Ridge Functions in High Dimensions from Point Queries, Constructive Approximation, to appear.
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IMI Preprints and Seminars
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