Mailing Address:
215 Carnegie Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-1150
FAX: (315) 443-1475

Office: 206B Carnegie Hall
Phone: (315) 443-1460
Email:banerjee@syr.edu

PhD

from University of Maryland, 1985

Research

Professor Banerjee is interested in the application of numerical methods to approximate solutions, eigenvalues and eigenvectors of elliptic PDEs. Presently, he is studying aspects of Meshless Methods and Generalized Finite Element Methods in the context of their approximation properties, error estimation schemes, and implementation. His interests also include elliptic PDEs with non-smooth coefficients.

Biography

Uday Banerjee earned a BSc from Patna University in 1975, an MSc from Indian Institute of Technology in 1978, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Maryland-College Park in 1985, writing his dissertation under John Osborn. Uday joined SU as an instructor 1984-1985, was promoted to assistant professor in 1985 and to associate professor in 1992. He was a visiting faculty member at Maryland-College Park in 1990-1991, a consultant to Lucent Technologies 1994-1998, held a Faculty Research Fellowship at SU in 1985 and 1986 and a Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship at Texas-Austin in the summers of 2001 and 2002.

Uday’s research interests are numerical solution of partial differential equations; approximation of eigenvalues of partial differential operators; and numerical analysis, finite element methods, meshless methods. He has published 13 papers, has two accepted, and two in progress. The last six items are joint with Babuska and Osborn, and of the first 11 half are by Uday alone and the others have a variety of collaborators. He has given 25-minute talks at 7 different Finite Element Circuses 1985-1992 and 2002, and a 20 minute talk at the 14th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg in 2002. He gave invited one-hour talks at the Fifth International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis in Plovdiv, Bulgaria in August 1996, at Clarkson University on 1991, and talks at Maryland in 1991 and 2002. Uday has directed one Ph.D. student, Max Tran (1999), and he is a member of SIAM.

He was a member of the Graduate Committee 1992-1995 (chair 1993-1995) and Undergraduate Committee 1999-2001 (chair 2000-2001), taught freshman forums 1992-1995, 1999 and 2000, was a Future Professoriate Program Mentor 1996-2001, and has been mathematics minor advisor 1998-present. He was a member of 7 dissertation defense committees.

Uday and Atreyee (informally Sree) were married in 1982, and have a son Oyshik now 15. Uday came to the US in 1978 and Sree came in 1984, after finishing her Ph.D. in chemistry in India. She works as a radiation therapist. In their free time they watch movies and walk together.

Source: 2003 cv. and a conversation with Uday. Phil Church June 24, 2003

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