Achi Brandt
{{Short description|Israeli mathematician}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Achiezer Brandt
| native_name = אחי ברנד
| native_name_lang = he
| image = Achi Brandt.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Achi Brandt at Oberwolfach in 2009
| birth_date = 1938
| birth_place = Givat Brenner, Israel
| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = Weizmann Institute of Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Stanford University
| alma_mater = Weizmann Institute of Science
| doctoral_advisor = Joseph Gillis
| known_for = Multigrid methods
| awards = Landau Prize (1978), Rothschild Prize (1990), SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2005)
}}
Achiezer Brandt ({{langx|he|אחי ברנד}}; born 1938 in Givat Brenner, today in Israel) is an Israeli mathematician, noted for his pioneering contributions to multigrid methods.
Background
Achi Brandt earned his Ph.D. degree at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1965, under the supervision of Joseph Gillis, with a thesis on numerical methods in hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. He is a faculty member of the Weizmann Institute, and has taught at several universities in the United States, including the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Stanford University.{{cite web|title=Achi Brandt|url=http://venturebeatprofiles.com/person/profile/achi-brandt|publisher=VentureBeat Profiles|accessdate=11 October 2012|archive-date=13 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113131324/http://venturebeatprofiles.com/person/profile/achi-brandt|url-status=usurped}}
He is the chief scientist and co-founder (along with Lior Delgo, Eitan Sharon, and Shai Deljo) of VideoSurf, a video-search technology startup, backed by Al Gore.{{cite web|last=Green|first=Aislyn|title=Microsoft buys Al Gore-backed startup VideoSurf|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2011/11/22/microsoft-buys-al-gore-backed-startup.html|publisher=Puget Sound Business Journal|accessdate=11 October 2012}} Microsoft Corp bought the company in 2011.
Awards
He was the recipient of the Landau Prize in Mathematics in 1978 and the Rothschild Prize in Mathematics in 1990. In 2005, he won the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering for "pioneering modern multilevel methods, from multigrid solvers for partial differential equations to multiscale techniques for statistical physics, and for influencing almost every aspect of contemporary computational science and engineering".{{cite web |url=http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/cse.php |title=SIAM: SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (with ACM) |publisher=www.siam.org |accessdate=2010-12-05 }}
References
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External links
- {{MathGenealogy|id=18986}}
- [http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~achi/ Achi Brandt] Weizmann Institute
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Category:People from Givat Brenner
Category:20th-century Israeli mathematicians
Category:21st-century Israeli mathematicians
Category:Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
Category:Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Category:Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
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