Roger Meyer Temam (born 19 May 1940) is a French applied mathematician working in numerical analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations and fluid mechanics.
He graduated from the University of Paris – the Sorbonne in 1967, completing a doctorate (thèse d'Etat) under the direction of Jacques-Louis Lions.
Thereafter, "he has continually explored and developed new directions and techniques":[2] Temam's main activities concern the study of geophysical flows, the atmosphere and oceans.
[22] In 1983, Temam co-founded the French Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI), analogous to the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and served as its first president.
[25] Temam has been the Director of the Institute for Scientific Computing & Applied Mathematics (ISCAM)[26] at Indiana University since 1986 (co-director with Ciprian Foias from 1986 to 1992).