Volker Mehrmann

Volker Mehrmann
Mehrmann at Oberwolfach, 2009
Born	(1955-04-24) 24 April 1955 (age 70) Detmold
Alma mater	Bielefeld University
Awards	AMS Fellow Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Numerical linear algebra Control theory
Institutions	Technische Universität Berlin Chemnitz University of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Ludwig Elsner
Doctoral students	Peter Benner Daniel Kressner

Volker Ludwig Mehrmann (born 1955) is a German mathematician known for research in numerical linear algebra, differential-algebraic equations, and control theory. He is on the editorial staffs of several journals, including Linear Algebra and Its Applications and Numerische Mathematik . ^[1] From 2019 to 2022 he was president of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). ^[2]

Education and career

Mehrmann studied mathematics at Bielefeld University, where he earned his Diploma (equivalent to an undergraduate degree) in 1979. He completed his Ph.D. there in 1982 with the dissertation "On classes of matrices containing M-matrices and hermitian positive semidefinite matrices," under the supervision of Ludwig F. Elsner and Richard S. Varga. ^[3]

Mehrmann was from 1990 to 1992 a Vertretungsprofessor (interim professor) at the RWTH Aachen University. From 1993 to 2000 he was a professor at the Chemnitz University of Technology. Since 2000 he has been a professor at the Institute for Mathematics at Technische Universität Berlin. From June 2008 to May 2016 he was the spokesperson for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft's mathematical center called Matheon. From January 2011 to December 2013 he was president of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM). In 2011 he received from the European Research Council (ERC) an advanced grant for modeling, simulation, and control of multiphysics systems. ^[4]

Awards and honors

Mehrmann is a member of the Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (Acatech) and of Academia Europaea. In 2015 he gave the Gauss Lecture and in 2018 was awarded the W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize ^[5] and in 2019 the Hans Schneider Prize in Linear Algebra. ^[6] In 2022 he was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to scientific computing and numerical linear algebra, and service and leadership in the mathematical community".

Selected publications

• Liesen, Jörg (2015). Linear Algebra. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24346-7. ISBN   978-3-319-24344-3.
• Kunkel, Peter; Mehrmann, V. L. (2006). Differential-algebraic equations : analysis and numerical solution. Zürich, Switzerland: European Mathematical Society. ISBN   3-03719-017-5. OCLC   69903217.
• Schwarz, Hans-Rudolf; Köckler, Norbert (2004). Numerische Mathematik (in German). Wiesbaden. ISBN   978-3-322-96814-2. OCLC   1021377754.
• Mehrmann, Volker Ludwig (1991). The Autonomous Linear Quadratic Control Problem : Theory and Numerical Solution. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN   978-3-540-47482-1. OCLC   858924641.

References

1. "2022 Class of Fellows of the AMS". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
2. "Volker Mehrmann to Become New President of the European Mathematical Society". Informationsdienst Wissenschaft. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
3. Volker Mehrmann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. "Prof. Dr. Volker Mehrmann". Institut für Mathematik, Numerische Mathematik, TU Berlin. (with eprints)
5. "Prize Spotlight: Volker Mehrmann". SIAM News. 22 August 2018.
6. "2019 Hans Schneider Prize". ILAS-Net Archive 2018.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

External links

• Volker Mehrmann publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Official website