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1998 Distinguished Alumnus
H. Thomas Banks (Ph.D. 1967) returned to campus during Gala Week as the 1998 Mathematics Distinguished Alumnus. Distinguished Alumni Awards were presented to alums from all School of Science departments at a banquet held at the University Inn and Conference Center in West Lafayette on April 24.
Banks received his Ph.D. from Purdue in 1967 under Professor Leonard Berkovitz. He is currently Director of the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University, where he is also University Professor and Drexel Professor of Mathematics. Prior to this appointment in 1992, he spent three years on the faculty at the University of Southern California, where he was founder and the first Director of the Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences, after having spent over 20 years on the faculty at Brown University.
Dr. Banks' research interests include inverse problems and control for PDE; modeling in structures, fluids, and biology. He has published over 200 papers in applied mathematics and engineering journals and is the author of three books. He currently serves on a number of editorial boards including J. Math Biology, Quarterly of Applied Math, J. Math. Systems, Estimation and Control, J. Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, and the Birkhäuser Series on Progress in Systems and Control. Dr. Banks is a Fellow of the IEEE.
During his visit to the Mathematics Department, Dr. Banks gave a colloquium talk entitled "Inverse Problems Arising in Electromagnetics."
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