Françoise Tisseur is a
numerical analyst
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and Professor of Numerical Analysis
at the
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
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, UK.
She works in
numerical linear algebra
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and in particular on
nonlinear eigenvalue problems and structured
matrix
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problems,
including the development of algorithms and software.
She is a graduate of the
University of St-Etienne, France, from where she gained her
Maitrise (Mathematical Engineering) in 1993,
Diplome d'Etude Approfondie in 1994, and PhD (Numerical Analysis) in 1997.
She has contributed software to
LAPACK
LAPACK ("Linear Algebra Package") is a standard software library for numerical linear algebra. It provides routines for solving systems of linear equations and linear least squares, eigenvalue problems, and singular value decomposition. It also ...
,
ScaLAPACK The ScaLAPACK (or Scalable LAPACK) library includes a subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for distributed memory MIMD parallel computers. It is currently written in a Single-Program-Multiple-Data style using explicit message passing for interproces ...
, and the
MATLAB
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distribution.
Tisseur is a member of the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, the IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis and the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra.
Awards and honours
Tisseur was awarded the 2010
Whitehead Prize
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by the
London Mathematical Society
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for her research achievements in numerical linear algebra, including polynomial eigenvalue and structured matrix problems.
She was awarded the 2011–2012
Adams Prize
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of the
University of Cambridge
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for her work on
polynomial eigenvalue problem
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...
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and holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2014–2019.
She delivered the Olga Taussky-Tood Lecture at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics in Valencia, Spain, in 2019.
She is the 2020 winner of the
Fröhlich Prize
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of the
London Mathematical Society
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"for her important and highly innovative contributions to the analysis, perturbation theory, and numerical solution of nonlinear eigenvalue problems".
Tisseur became a Fellow of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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in 2016 "for contributions to numerical linear algebra, especially numerical methods for eigenvalue problems". She held an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship in 2011–2016,
and is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
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Numerical analysts
Jean Monnet University alumni
Academics of the University of Manchester
Living people
French mathematicians
Whitehead Prize winners
French women mathematicians
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders
Year of birth missing (living people)