Thomas Hagstrom

Thomas Hagstrom is a Professor at Southern Methodist University, holding a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (1983). His research specializes in numerical analysis and scientific computing, with particular focus on computational methods for time-domain wave propagation phenomena.

Research areas include:

• Radiation boundary conditions and fast propagation algorithms for scattering problems
• High-order Hermite discretization methods
• Discontinuous Galerkin discretizations
• Efficient time-stepping for stiff equations

Applications span electromagnetic/acoustic scattering, sound generation by turbulent flows, gas-phase combustion, and multiscale coupling of kinetic models. His work has been supported by NSF, AFOSR, ARO, and NASA.