Prof. Ronald A. DeVore

Ronald A. DeVore is the Robert L. Sumwalt Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Industrial Mathematics Institute in the Department of Mathematics at the University of South Carolina. He received his Ph.D. degree from Ohio State University in 1967 and has been at the University of South Carolina since 1977. He has published over 100 research articles and four research monographs in the areas of approximation theory, harmonic analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations, numerical analysis, and image processing. His recent research interests center on fast wavelet based algorithms for image processing and numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the Israeli National Science Foundation.


Personal Homepage: www.math.sc.edu/~devore