Professor of Applied Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Bob Russell received his Ph.D. in 1971 at the University of New Mexico under the direction of Lawrence Shampine. In 1971, Dr. Russell became Assistant Professor at Colorado State University and in 1972 he moved to Simon Fraser University. He was promoted to Full Professor in 1981. He has held numerous visiting positions throughout the world, including at Stanford, University of Auckland and Imperial College (as an SERC Fellow). Dr. Russell's travels include serving as an Invited Scholar at the USSR and Chinese Academies of Science and as a plenary speaker at SIAM's Dynamical Systems Conference in 2000. His journal editorships have included SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis and SIAM Journal for Scientific Computing. He is a founding member and past Vice-President of CAIMS (Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society), has served two terms on NSERC's Grant Selection Committee in Computer Science, is on IMACS Board of Directors, and is a Canadian representative for ICIAM. His field of research is scientific computing, with special emphasis on the numerical solution of PDEs and ODEs. He is particularly interested in dynamical systems and computational methods which preserve qualitative features of solutions of differential equations. This has recently been in the context of developing mathematical software using adaptive gridding techniques.