Susanne Cecelia Brenner is an American mathematician, whose research concerns the finite element method and related techniques for the numerical solution of differential equations. She is a Boyd Professor[1] at Louisiana State University. Previously, she held the Nicholson Professorship of Mathematics and the Michael F. and Roberta Nesbit McDonald Professorship at Louisiana State University,[2] She currently chairs the editorial committee of the journal Mathematics of Computation.[3] During 2021-2022 she is serving as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Education and career
[edit]Brenner did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and German at West Chester State College and received a master's degree in mathematics from SUNY Stony Brook.[4] She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1988 under the joint supervision of Jeffrey Rauch and L. Ridgway Scott; her thesis was entitled "Multigrid Methods for Nonconforming Finite Elements".[5]
She held faculty positions at Clarkson University and the University of South Carolina before moving to Louisiana State University in 2006.[4][6]
Selected publications
[edit]- interior penalty methods for fourth order elliptic boundary value problems on polygonal domains. J. Sci. Comput. 22/23 (2005), 83–118.
- Korn's inequalities for piecewise vector fields. Math. Comp. 73 (2004), no. 247, 1067–1087.
- Poincaré-Friedrichs inequalities for piecewise functions. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 41 (2003), no. 1, 306–324.
- with L. R. Scott, The Mathematical Theory of Finite Element Methods (Springer-Verlag, 1994; 3rd edition, 2008).
Recognition
[edit]She is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,[7] the American Mathematical Society,[8] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9] The Association for Women in Mathematics has included her in the 2020 class of AWM Fellows for "being a role model nationally and internationally due to her widely-known work in finite element methods; for her promotion of women in mathematics via the Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing network, as mentor of Ph.D.s, and as advisor of graduate and undergraduate students".[10] Brenner was also awarded a Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2005.[11]
She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the Association of Women in Mathematics.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Susanne C. Brenner named Boyd Professor | LSUMath". www.math.lsu.edu. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ^ Brenner Named Michael F. and Roberta Nesbit McDonald Professor, LSU Mathematics, August 16, 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
- ^ Mathematics of Computation Editorial Board. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
- ^ Susanne Brenner at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Louisiana State's Susanne Brenner Named President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics". Women In Academia Report. 2020-01-02. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
- ^ SIAM Fellows: Class of 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
- ^ 2012 Fellows, AAAS. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
- ^ 2020 Class of AWM Fellows, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2019-11-08
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Susanne Brenner". Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation. 2017-12-10. Retrieved 2022-11-29.
- ^ "Mathematicians of EvenQuads Deck 1". awm-math.org. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
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