Angelika Bunse-Gerstner (born 1951) is a German mathematician specializing in

numerical linear algebra Numerical linear algebra, sometimes called applied linear algebra, is the study of how matrix operations can be used to create computer algorithms which efficiently and accurately provide approximate answers to questions in continuous mathematics. ...

and

control theory Control theory is a field of mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system inputs to drive the system to a ...

Education and career

Bunse-Gerstner earned her Ph.D. from

Bielefeld University Bielefeld University (german: Universität Bielefeld) is a university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization a ...

in 1978. Her dissertation, ''Der HR-Algorithmus zur numerischen Bestimmung der Eigenwerte einer Matrix'', was jointly supervised by Ludwig Elsner and Hans Johnen. Until 2017, Bunse-Gerstner was head of the Numerics group in the Zentrum für Technomathematik (ZeTeM) at the

University of Bremen The University of Bremen (German: ''Universität Bremen'') is a public university in Bremen, Germany, with approximately 23,500 people from 115 countries. It is one of 11 institutions which were successful in the category "Institutional Strategi ...

Book

Bunse-Gerstner is the author of a German-language textbook on

, ''Numerische lineare Algebra'' (with Wolfgang Bunse, Teubner Mathematical Textbooks, 1985).

Recognition

In 2017, the

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community. SIAM is the world's largest scientific socie ...

listed Bunse-Gerstner as a Fellow, "for contributions in numerical linear algebra, control theory, and model reduction".

References

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