ODD MAGNUS FALTINSEN - Lecture September 2nd- Abstract
Department of Marine Technology, NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
E-mail: odd.faltinsen@ntnu.no
Odd Magnus Faltinsen has worked on broad aspects of hydrodynamics of displacement ships, high-speed craft, offshore structures, and fish farms. Faltinsen was born in 1944 in Stavanger, Norway, and obtained a cand. real. degree in applied mathematics at theUniversity of Bergen in 1968 and a PhD degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in 1971 at the University of Michigan. He was employed by DNV from 1968 to 1974, was dosent in marine technology from 1974 to 1976 and professor of Marine Hydrodynamics from 1976 at NTNU. Faltinsen is the author of the three textbooks publishedby Cambridge University Press. He has authored more than 500 publications in scientific journals, conferences, and books, and given about 50 keynote and honours lectures. He gavethe 15th Georg Weinblum Lecture, 1992-1993.He received the Fridtjof Nansen’s award for outstanding research in science and medicine in 2011. The 26th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies held in Athens on April 17-20, 2011, was dedicated to Professor Odd M. Faltinsen. The “Professor Odd Faltinsen Honoring Symposium on Marine Hydrodynamics” was arranged at OMAE 2013, Nantes, France in June 9-14, 2013. He received the OOAE Division-ASME Lifetime Achievement Award in June 2013 and theCouncil of the Confederation of European Maritime Technology Societies Award in 2017. Faltinsen is elected member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, corresponding member of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.