PAVEL SOLIN, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Solin was a postdoctoral research associate at the Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria), The University of Texas at Austin, and Rice University (Houston, Texas). He received his PhD from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1999. Dr. Sol?n is a coauthor of the monograph Higher-Order Finite Element Methods.