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Richard Alfred Tapia (born March 25, 1939) is a renowned American mathematician and champion of under-represented minorities in the sciences.〔 Tapia is the Principal investigator on a $2 million NSF grant (2007-2010) addressing networking for a "minority student or faculty at a majority institution".〕 In recognition of his broad contributions, in 2005, Tapia was named "University Professor" at Rice University in Houston, Texas, the University's highest academic title. The honor has been bestowed on only six professors in Rice's ninety-nine-year history. On September 28, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that Tapia was among twelve scientists to be awarded the National Medal of Science, the top award the United States offers its researchers. Tapia is currently the Maxfield and Oshman Professor of Engineering; Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Office of Research and Graduate Studies; and Director of the Center for Excellence and Equity in Education at Rice University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.caam.rice.edu/~rat/brief_bio.html )〕 Tapia's mathematical research is focused on mathematical optimization and iterative methods for nonlinear problems. His current research is in the area of algorithms for constrained optimization and interior point methods for linear and nonlinear programming. == Education == * Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1967 (Mathematics) * *Dissertation: "A Generalization of Newton's Method with an Application to the Euler–Lagrange Equation" * *Advisors: Magnus Hestenes, Charles Tompkins〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=14920 )〕 * M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1966 (Mathematics) * B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1961 (Mathematics) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard A. Tapia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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