Douglas Norman "Doug" Arnold is a mathematician whose research focuses on the numerical analysis of partial differential equations with applications in mechanics and other fields in physics.
At the end of his term as director of the IMA, he becomes the McKnight Presidential Professor of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.
[1] Arnold's research initially focused on the finite element method for the solution of problems in elasticity.
This was the topic of the plenary lecture Arnold gave at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians.
[5] Other honors include winning the International Giovanni Sacchi Landriani Prize in 1991, the award of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008 and election as a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2009.