Beatrice Marie Riviere is a computational and applied mathematician. She is the Noah Harding Chair and Professor in the department of computational and applied mathematics at

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. Her research involves developing efficient

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s for modeling fluids flowing through porous media.

Education and career

Rivière earned a diploma in engineering from

École Centrale Paris École Centrale Paris (ECP; also known as École Centrale or Centrale) was a French grande école in engineering and science. It was also known by its official name ''École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures''. In 2015, École Centrale Paris mer ...

in 1995, and a master's degree in 1996 from the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

. She moved to the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

for her doctoral studies, completing her Ph.D. there in 2000. Her dissertation, ''Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Solving the Miscible Displacement Problem in Porous Media'', was supervised by

Mary Wheeler Mary Fanett Wheeler (born December 28, 1938) is an American mathematician. She is known for her work on numerical methods for partial differential equations, including domain decomposition methods. In 1998, Wheeler was elected a member of the N ...

. Before joining the Rice University faculty in 2008, she worked as an associate professor of mathematics at the

University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university is composed of 17 undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges at its urban Pittsburgh campus, home to the universit ...

. She was department chair from 2015 to 2018. In 2018 she was elected chair of the Activity Group on Geosciences (SIAG/GS) of the

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(SIAM).

Book

Rivière is the author of the book ''Discontinuous Galerkin methods for solving elliptic and parabolic equations: theory and implementation'' (SIAM, 2008).

Recognition

Rivière was named a

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in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions in numerical analysis, scientific computing, and modeling of porous media". In 2021 she was elected to SIAM's Board of Trustees for a term running January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2024. In 2022 she will become a fellow of the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

, "For her important contributions to numerical analysis, scientific computing and modeling of porous media; for her exemplary mentorship and supervision of women in applied and computational mathematics; and for her distinguished record of service and outreach."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Riviere, Beatrice Living people 21st-century American mathematicians French mathematicians American women mathematicians Pennsylvania State University alumni University of Texas at Austin alumni University of Pittsburgh faculty Rice University faculty 21st-century women mathematicians Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 21st-century American women