Tapia, Richard A(lfred)
TAPIA, Richard A(lfred)
TAPIA, Richard A(lfred). American, b. 1939. Genres: Mathematics/ Statistics. Career: Computational mathematician and educator. University of Wisconsin, Mathematics Research Center, Madison, assistant professor, 1968-70; Rice University, Houston, TX, assistant professor of mathematical science, 1970, professor, 1976-, department chair, 1978-83, associate director for minority affairs, Office of Graduate Studies, 1989-, became Noah Harding Professor. Center for Research on Parallel Computation (CRPC), director of education and minority programs. Visiting professor, Baylor College and Stanford University. Leader of workshops on computational science. Publications: (with J.R. Thompson) Nonparametric Probability Density Estimation, c. 1978; (with J.R. Thompson) Nonparametric Function Estimation, Modeling, and Simulation, 1978, rev ed, 1990; (ed. with S. Gomez and J.P. Hennart) Advances in Numerical Partial Differential Equations and Optimization: Proceedings of the Fifth Mexico-United States Workshop, c. 1991. Address: Rice University Department of Mathematical Sciences, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251, U.S.A.