Texas Tech University
Portrait of Dr. Philip Smith

Philip Smith, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus

Philip Smith, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus

Director High Performance Computing Center 1999 - 2014
Professor 1999 - 2014

Dr. Smith's research areas have been approximation theory, numerical analysis, optimization, numerical solution to PDEs, and parallel and grid computing. Much of his early research was on spline functions. He has worked on projects to model chemical and biological attacks on buildings, surface fitting to data clouds, non-conforming finite elements, and parallel quadrature algorithms.

Research Interests

Applied Mathematics, Analysis, Computational Mathematics, and Numerical Analysis

Education

Ph.D., Purdue University