Hinke Osinga | |
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Born | Dokkum, Netherlands | 25 December 1969
Nationality | Dutch |
Known for | Mathematical art |
Spouse | Bernd Krauskopf |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Groningen |
Thesis | Computing Invariant Manifolds: Variations on the Graph Transform (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | Henk Broer Gert Vegter |
Other advisors | Ruth F. Curtain Floris Takens |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Exeter University of Bristol University of Auckland |
Hinke Maria Osinga (born 25 December 1969) [1] is a Dutch mathematician and an expert in dynamical systems. She works as a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. [2] As well as for her research,she is known as a creator of mathematical art.
Osinga earned a master's degree in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Groningen. [2] Her doctoral dissertation,jointly supervised by dynamical systems theorist Henk Broer and computational geometer Gert Vegter,was on the computation of invariant manifolds. [3]
After postdoctoral studies at The Geometry Center and the California Institute of Technology,and a short-term lecturership at the University of Exeter,she became a lecturer at the University of Bristol in 2001,and was promoted to reader and professor there in 2005 and 2011,respectively. She moved to Auckland in 2011, [2] becoming the first female mathematics professor at Auckland and the second in New Zealand. [4]
In 2004 Osinga created a crocheted visualization of the Lorenz manifold,an invariant manifold for the Lorenz system,and published the crochet pattern for her work with her husband Bernd Krauskopf;the resulting mathematical textile artwork involved over 25,000 crochet stitches,and measured nearly a meter across. [5] [6] Osinga and Krauskopf later collaborated with artist Benjamin Storch on a stainless steel sculpture that provides another interpretation of the same mathematical system. [7]
Osinga was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014,speaking on "Mathematics in Science and Technology". [8] In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for contributions to theory and computational methods for dynamical systems." [9] In October 2016 she became the first female mathematician elected to the Royal Society of New Zealand. [10] [11] She was awarded the Aitken Lectureship in 2017. [12]
In 2017 Osinga was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words",celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand. [13] The same year she received the Moyal Medal from Macquarie University. [14]
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