Charles W. Groetsch

Charles (Chuck) William Groetsch (born February 15, 1945, in New Orleans) is an American applied mathematician and numerical analyst.

Education and career Groetsch graduated from the University of New Orleans with B.S. in 1966 and M.S. in 1968. He was from 1966 to 1968 an engineer and applied mathematician in Boeing's Space Division, Launch Systems Branch. In 1971 he received his PhD in mathematics from Louisiana State University in 1971. At the University of Cincinnati he was an assistant professor from 1971 to 1975, an associate professor from 1976 to 1981, and a full professor from 1981 to 2006. There he was head of the department of mathematical sciences from 1985 to 1990. At The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, he was the founding dean of the School of Science and Mathematics from 2006 to 2011 and is the Citadel Distinguished Professor of Mathematical Science since 2011. In 2010 Groetsch was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2010 two special issues (volume 22, issues 2 & 3) of the Journal of Integral Equations and Applications were dedicated to him in honor of his “fundamental contributions to the field of inverse problems.”