Harm Bart (born 5 August 1942) is a Dutch

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, and Professor of Mathematics at the

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humani ...

,Harm Bart
CV particularly known for his work on "factorization problems for matrix and operator functions."

Biography

Born in

Enkhuizen Enkhuizen () is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia. History Enkhuizen, like Hoorn and Amsterdam, was one of the harbor-towns of the VOC, from where overseas trade w ...

, Bart started his study at the

Vrije Universiteit The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

in Amsterdam in 1960. Here he received his BA in Mathematics and

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in 1964, his MA in Mathematics with a minor in Dogmatics in 1969, and his PhD in 1973 with the thesis "Meromorphic operator valued functions" under supervision of

Rien Kaashoek Marinus Adriaan "Rien" Kaashoek (born 10 November 1937) is a Dutch mathematician, and Emeritus Professor Analysis and Operator Theory at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Biography Born in Ridderkerk, Kaashoek has studied mathematics at the L ...

. After graduation Bart started his academic career at the Faculty of Mathematics at the Vrije Universiteit as Assistant Professor in 1973, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in 1977. In 1982 he was appointed Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the

Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc an ...

. In 1984 he became Extraordinary Professor of Mathematics and since 1985 Professor of Mathematics at the Erasmus School of Economics of the

. From 1987 to 1992 he was Co-Director of the

Econometric Institute Econometric Institute (Dutch ''Econometrisch Instituut'') at the Erasmus University Rotterdam is a leading research institute in the fields of econometrics and management science in the Netherlands. The Institute offers advanced education in econom ...

, first with

Teun Kloek Teunis (Teun) Kloek (born 1934) is a Dutch economist and Emeritus Professor of Econometrics at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. His research interests centered on econometric methods and their applications, especially nonparametric and robust ...

and later with

Ton Vorst Antonius Cornelis Franciscus (Ton) Vorst (born 1952, Utrecht) is a Dutch financial engineer and mathematician, Professor at the department of Finance of the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, and Director of the VU Amsterdam School of Finance and Risk ...

. From 1996 to 2000 he was also Dean of the Erasmus School of Economics. In 2004 Bart was decorated as Officer in the

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Philip Hans Franses Philippus Henricus Benedictus Franciscus "Philip Hans" Franses (born 1963) is a Dutch economist and Professor of Applied Econometrics and Marketing Research at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and dean of the Erasmus School of Economics, especial ...

(2005)
Annual Report 2004: Econometric Institute
' p. 7 He has been elected Fellow of the Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics, and Fellow of the

Tinbergen Institute The Tinbergen Institute is a joint institute for research and education in economics, econometrics and finance of the VU University Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam, and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The institute was founded in 1987 an ...

Publications

Bart authored and co-authored three books and over fifty articles. * 1973. ''Meromorphic Operator Valued Functions''. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam * 1979. ''Minimal Factorization of Matrix and Operator Functions, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Vol. 1'' With I. Gohberg and M.A. Kaashoek. Birkhauser Verlag * 2008. ''Factorization of matrix and operator functions: The State Space Method (Operator Theory: Advances and Applications / Linear Operators and Linear Systems)''. With

Israel Gohberg Israel Gohberg ( he, ישראל גוכברג; russian: Изра́иль Цу́дикович Го́хберг; 23 August 1928 – 12 October 2009) was a Bessarabian-born Soviet and Israeli mathematician, most known for his work in operator theory ...

, Marinus A. Kaashoek and André C.M. Ran. Vol. 178. Springer. Articles, a selection: * Bart, Harm, and Seymour Goldberg. "Characterizations of almost periodic strongly continuous groups and semigroups." Mathematische Annalen 236.2 (1978): 105–116. * Bart, H., Gohberg, I., Kaashoek, M. A., & Van Dooren, P. (1980). Factorizations of transfer functions. SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 18(6), 675–696. * Bart, Harm, and H. Hoogland. "Complementary triangular forms of pairs of matrices, realizations with prescribed main matrices, and complete factorization of rational matrix functions." Linear Algebra and its Applications 103 (1988): 193–228.

References

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Curriculum Vitae at few.eur.nl * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bart, Harm 1942 births Living people Dutch economists Dutch mathematicians Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam faculty Eindhoven University of Technology faculty Erasmus University Rotterdam faculty People from Enkhuizen