John P. Boyd

John P. Boyd joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1977 and has been professor of atmospheric, oceanic, and space science in the College of Engineering since 1988. Concurrently, he was the founding associate director of the Laboratory for Scientific Computation (now the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering) and as such created the university's M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in scientific computing. His previous books are Chebyshev and Fourier Spectral Methods, 2nd edition,(Dover, 2001) and Weakly Nonlocal Solitary Waves and Beyond-All-Orders Asymptotics (Springer, 1998). He has also published 240 journal articles in atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, nonlinear waves, physics, and Chebyshev, Fourier, and RBF spectral methods, as well as 20 science fiction stories.