Gregory Fasshauer , Ph.D.
ProfessorAssociate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Applied Mathematics
Office: Engineering 1, Room 208A
10 W. 32nd St.
Chicago, IL 60616
Office Hours: TR 12:30 - 1:30 pm and by appointment
Phone: 312.567.3149
Fax: 312.567.3135
Email: fasshauer_AT_iit_DOT_edu
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Expertise
Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics - Vanderbilt University (1995)
- MA in Mathematics - Vanderbilt University (1993)
- Diploma & Staatsexamen in Mathematics and English - University of Stuttgart (1991)
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Major Accomplishments
Meshfree methods for multivariate approximation (radial basis functions, moving least squares and related methods), Applications of meshfree methods (surface and solid model compression, image compression, options pricing, vibration analysis of composite beams and plates, gas-dynamics), Numerical analysis (solution of differential and integral equations, Nash iteration, multilevel algorithms, fast summation methods, meshfree pseudospectral methods, parallel computing), Approximation theory (approximation on spheres, approximate approximation), Computer-aided geometric design (minimal energy surfaces, geometric continuity), Spline theory (approximation with multivariate splines, dimensions of multivariate spline spaces).
Current Projects
- Kernel Methods for Numerical Computation, with Fred Hickernell
Awards/Honors
- 2012 - Distinguished Teaching Fellow, College of Science and Letters
- 2008 - AMS Menger Prize Committee
- 2007 - Dean's Excellence Award for Teaching, College of Science and Letters, IIT.
- 2003 - Fellow of Wessex Institute of Technology, Great Britain.
- 1995 - Bjarni Jonsson Prize for Research, Vanderbilt University.
Patents
Books
- Progress on Meshless Methods (with A.J.M. Ferreira, E.J. Kansa and V.M.A. Leitao), 2008
- Meshfree Approximation Methods with MATLAB, 2007
Selected Publications
On dimension-independent rates of convergence for function approximation with Gaussian kernels, with F.J. Hickernell and H. Wozniakowski, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 50/1 (2012), 247-271.
Stable evaluation of Guassian radial basis function interpolants, with M.J. McCourt, SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 34/2 (2012), A737-A762.
Positive definite kernels: past, present, future, Dolomites Research Notes on Approximation 4 (2011), 21-63.
Reproducing kernels of generalized Sobolev spaces via a Green function apporach with distributional operators, with Q. Ye, Numer. Math 119 (2011), 585-611.
On choosing "optimal" shape parameters for RBF approximation, with J.G. Zhang, Numerical Algorithms 45 (2007), 345-368.
Newton iteration with multiquadrics for the solution of nonlinear PDEs, Comput. Math. Applic. 43 (2002), 423—438.
Multistep approximation algorithms: improved convergence rates through postconditioning with smoothing kernels, with Joe Jerome, Adv. Comput. Math. 10 (1999), 1—27.
Scattered data fitting on the sphere, with LL Schumaker, M. Daehlen, and T. Lyche, in Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces II, Vanderbilt University Press, pg. 117-166, 1998.
Solving partial differential equations by collocation with radial basis functions, with A Le Mehaute, C. Rabut, and LL Schumaker, in Surface Fitting and Multiresolution Methods, Vanderbilt University Press, pg. 131-138, 1997.
