mail: fb@cfm.brown.edu, fax: (401) 863-1355
http: www.dam.brown.edu/people/fb/
mail: RR1 - Box 144C, Jefferson, NH, 03583
The University of Chicago - - - 1950-1952
Illinois Institute of Technology --- 1952-1954 --- Physics --- B.S.
The University of Kansas --- 1954-1955 --- Physics
The University of Chicago --- 1955-1959 --- Physics --- M.S. & Ph.D
N.S.F. Post-doctoral Fellow --- Brown University and WHOI --- 1959-1960
Research Associate --- Brown University --- 1960-1961
-- Professor --- Brown University, Appl. Math --- 1961-2001
Visiting Member --- Courant Institute --- 1966-1967
Professor Associe --- Paris VI, Mechanique --- 1972-1973
Guest Investigator--- Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. --- 1987-1988
Armour Research Foundation,
American Machine and Foundry,
1992 --- Developed and introduced AM10 - Introduction
to Modeling. This was a course without prerequisites, primarily
for freshman and sophomores at Brown.
1993,1994,1995 --- Served as mathematics and science consultant in a summer
program for secondary school teachers (Coalition of Essential Schools).
1994 --- Served as mathematics and science consultant
in a similar program for local secondary school teachers (Institute
for Secondary Education at Brown University). Participated in short
program on development of problem-based curriculum units for the
Coalition of Essential Schools.
1995 --- Converted AM10 and AM11 - Introduction to Scientific Computing - to combined math/computing/writing courses.
Papers on hydrodynamic stability, thermal convection, perturbation theory, rotating fluids, nonlinear waves and wavepackets, electromagnetic theory, optimization, complex analysis, numerical analysis, computer graphics, and partial differential equations.
Other work in progress includes water waves, stratified flows, rotating flows, global circulation models, capillary waves on jets, waves on beaches, flow visualization, computer graphics, and more numerical analysis.
Some of the computer graphics work (with Banchoff, Kocak, Laidlaw and Margolis) has appeared at SIGGRAPH, in the Scientific American and Newsweek (U.S., France and Brazil), and on the jackets of at least two books on the fourth dimension.