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The Rice Engineering Dean's Office, the Rice Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, and the Rice Department of Mathematics proudly present A public lecture celebrating the selection of Professor Jim Douglas, Jr. of Purdue University for the 2004 Rice Distinguished Alumni Award McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. Topic On Transport Dominated Diffusion Processes and an Evolving Family of Numerical Methods About the Speaker Jim Douglas, Jr. is known world-wide for his pioneering and life-long contributions in the areas of developing theory, applications, and solution techniques for partial differential equation models in science and engineering and in particular in the area of flow in porous media. Douglas, a native Texan, received his undergraduate training at the University of Texas and then received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Rice University in 1952. As the computer came into our world in the early 1950's, several individuals had great insight and foresight and began to couple mathematics with this emerging powerful tool. Science scholars and historians today recognize the seminal work that Douglas and his colleagues produced at Humble Oil and Refining Company here in Houston during the five-year period from 1952-1957 as very important pioneering work in fostering scientific numerical methods and simulation for partial differential equation models. In 1957 Douglas became a member of the Rice faculty. He was a Rice faculty member for ten years, until 1967, when he left for a faculty position at the University of Chicago. In 1990 he moved to Purdue University. Douglas has mentored students and influenced researchers across the world for the past 50 years. His contributions are truly legendary. This talk will contain material for the specialist and the non-specialist alike. All are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to hear Rice 2004 Distinguished Alumnus Jim Douglas Jr. speak. A wine and cheese reception in Martel Hall will immediately follow the lecture. Copyright 2000 Rice University site problems: www@cs.rice.edu --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---