Bio:
Charles (Chuck) Groetsch, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical Science Emeritus, was the founding dean of the School of Science and Mathematics. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and recipient of the Mathematical Association of America’s George Pόlya Award, his research on inverse and ill-posed problems, regularization theory, stabilized approximation and related topics has been supported by grants from NSF, AFOSR, NATO, SERC (U.K.) and other agencies. He has held faculty positions at the University of Rhode Island and the University of Cincinnati, where he served as head of the Department of Mathematics and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and visiting research appointments at leading universities in the U.K., Switzerland, Australia, and Germany. He has presented invited plenary lectures on every continent, except Antarctica. Blending mathematics, science and history in his lecturing and writing is what he likes to do most.