Anne Greenbaum Explained

Anne Greenbaum
Birth Date: 1951
Nationality:American
Fields:Mathematics
Workplaces:University of Washington
Alma Mater:University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
Doctoral Advisor:Paul Concus and Beresford Neill Parlett
Known For:Linear algebra

Anne Greenbaum (born 1951)[1] is an American applied mathematician and professor at the University of Washington. She was named a SIAM Fellow in 2015 "for contributions to theoretical and numerical linear algebra".[2] She has written graduate and undergraduate textbooks on numerical methods.

Education

Greenbaum received her bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1974.[3] She earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981.[4]

Employment

After receiving her bachelor's degree, Greenbaum worked for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She joined the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1986, and moved to the University of Washington in 1998.

Awards and honors

Greenbaum received a Best Paper Prize from the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra in 1994, together with Roland Freund, Noel Nachtigal, and Zdenek Strakos.[5] She received the Bernard Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merit in the Mathematical Sciences from the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1997. She became a SIAM Fellow in 2015. She was selected as the 2022 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Birth year from ISNI authority control file, retrieved 2018-11-27.
  2. Web site: SIAM Fellows. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 12 January 2018.
  3. Web site: Hickey. Hannah. Anne Greenbaum a 2015 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. University of Washington. 12 January 2018.
  4. Web site: Anne Greenbaum. Mathematics Genealogy Project. 12 January 2018.
  5. Web site: SIAG/Linear Algebra Best Paper Prize. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). 28 Feb 2018.
  6. Web site: Anne Greenbaum Named AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer . 2022-03-06 . SIAM News . en-US.