Short Vita: Larry Schumaker

Education

B.S. Mathematics, S.D. School of Mines, June, 1961

M.S. Mathematics, Stanford University, June, 1962

PhD Mathematics, Stanford University, January, 1966

Stevenson Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 1988--

Staff Mathematician, Hughes Aircraft Co., Summers, 1961--1963

Research Assistant, Mathematics and Computer Science, Stanford University, 1964--1965

Instructor, Computer Science Dept., Stanford University, 1966

Research Member, Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin, 1966--1968

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas, 1968--1969

Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas, 1969--1974

Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas, 1974--1979

Professor of Mathematics, Texas A\&M University, 1979- 1988

Director, Center for Approximation Theory, Texas A\&M University, 1979--1988

Visiting Research Member, Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin, 1973--1974

Visiting Professor, University of Munich, Germany, 1974--1975

Visiting Professor, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 1978--1979

Visiting Researcher, Hahn-Meitner Atomic Energy Laboratories, Berlin, Germany, 1978--1979

Visiting Professor, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Summer, 1981

Visiting Professor, University of W\"urzburg, W. Germany, Summer, 1987

Visiting Professor, University of Munich, W. Germany, 1988--1989

Hughes Aircraft Masters Fellow

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow

Humboldt Fellow, German Federal Republic, 1978--1979

Centennial Outstanding Graduate Award, S.D. School of Mines \& Technology, 1985

Humboldt Prize, Humboldt Foundation, Federal Republic of Germany, 1989

John Gregory Award in Geometric Modelling, DFKI, Germany, 1999

Computer Aided Geometric Design, North Holland, 1984 --

Constructive Approximation, Springer-Verlag, 1985 --

Advances in Computational Mathematics, J. Balzer AG, 1992 --

160 research papers

36 books authored, translated, or edited.