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Commonwealth
Professor
Telephone: (434) 924-6216
E-mail: wwr@virginia.edu
William
W. Roberts, Jr. is Commonwealth Professor of Engineering and Applied Science.
He earned his S.B.. in mathematics in 1964 and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics
in 1969 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Roberts is Director of the Mathematical-Computational Modeling Laboratory.
His professional work spans a broad realm of phenomena observed in nature
and the experimental laboratory including shock waves, nonlinear phenomena,
hypersonic flows, gas-fiber transport, industrial prototype technologies,
star formation, the interstellar medium, and galactic dynamics with strong
focus on formulation of the scientific and engineering problems in mathematical
terms and solution of the mathematical equations in the models thus formulated.
Dr. Roberts received the 1990 NCR-University Stakeholder Innovation Award
for his scientific work on mathematical modeling-computer algorithm development
and the 1980 Distinguished Teaching Award from the University's Office
of Afro-American Affairs. He has carried out consulting work for various
industrial firms and has held visiting positions at: State University
of New York, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, University of Groningen,
Stockholms Observatorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University
of Leiden, Kitt Peak National Observatory, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
NASA Langley Research Center, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and
NASA Ames Research Center.