Henson, Van Emden

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Calhoun: The NPS Institutional ArchiveDSpace RepositoryHistory of Naval Postgraduate School Biographies1992-02Resume of Van Emden Henson, 1992-02Henson, Van EmdenMonterey, California:  Naval Postgraduate Schoolhttp://hdl.handle.net/10945/53143This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, UnitedStates Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in theUnited States.Downloaded from NPS Archive: Calhoun) ) ) RESUME OF VAN EMDEN HENSON Van Emden Henson was born in Denver, Colorado, on December 23, 1954. In the early 1970's he attended the University of Utah, studying set and lighting design for the theatre. Eventually, he left the University to work as a designer for the Human Ensemble Repertory Theatre and Theatre 138, in Sa1t Lake City. He returned to the University of Utah in 1976, and in 1979 received Bachelor of Science degrees (Magna Cum Laude) in Geophysics and Geology. Upon graduation, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In August, 1979, he took a job as an Exploration Geo-physicist with Cities Service Oil and Gas Corporation, for whom he worked in Tulsa and Denver until 1987. While working in the oil business he enrolled as a graduate stu-dent in Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Denver. In 1988, with a thesis detailing the implementation on parallel computers of fast Fourier transforms for special sequence symmetries, he obtained his Master of Science in Applied Mathematics. He earned his Ph.D., also in Applied Mathematics, in 1990. His disser-tation, written under the direction of William L. Briggs, is entitled Fourier Methods of Image Reconstruction. Dr. Henson joined the faculty at NPS in the Department of Mathematics in January, 1991. His principal research interests include multigrid methods for solving PDE's and integral equations, image reconstruction, parallel computation, fast transforms, and wavelets. He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, The America! Mathematical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and Sigma Xi. An avowed environmentalist, Dr. Henson supports the Nature Conservancy, Wilder-ness Society, Sierra Club, and World Wildlife Foundation. His principal avocations are backpacking, baseball, and theatre. 2/92 

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