Ernst Hairer

{{Short description|Austrian mathematician}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Ernst Hairer

| image = Ernst Hairer.jpg

| caption = Hairer at Oberwolfach, 2006

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|06|19|df=y}}

| birth_place = Nauders, Tyrol

| residence =

| citizenship = Austrian

| field = Mathematics

| work_institution = University of Geneva

| alma_mater = University of Geneva

| doctoral_advisor = Gerhard Wanner

| doctoral_students = Christian Lubich

| known_for =

| prizes = Peter Henrici Prize {{small|(2003)}}

| children = Martin Hairer

| website = {{URL|http://www.unige.ch/~hairer}}

}}

Ernst Hairer (born 19 June 1949)[http://www.unige.ch/math/hairer60/boahairer60.pdf Book of abstracts from Conference in honour of E. Hairer's 60th birthday 17–20 June 2009], Univ. of Geneva, retrieved 2011-05-06. is a professor of mathematics at the University of Geneva known for his work in numerical analysis.

His PhD was completed at the University of Innsbruck.{{mathgenealogy|id=35715}}

He is the father of the mathematician Martin Hairer, who won the Fields medal in 2014.

Hairer is a member of the editorial boards for the journals Mathematics of Computation[http://www.ams.org/publications/journals/journalsframework/mcomedit Editorial Board], Mathematics of Computation, American Mathematical Society. Accessed 2011-05-07. and Journal of Scientific Computing.[https://www.springer.com/mathematics/numerical+and+computational+mathematics/journal/10915?detailsPage=editorialBoard Editorial Board], Journal of Scientific Computing, Springer-Verlag. Accessed 2011-05-07.

He wrote, with others, Solving Ordinary Differential Equations (Hairer, Nørsett, Wanner) and L'analyse au fil de l'histoire (Hairer, Wanner).

Awards and honors

Hairer holds a doctor honoris causa from the University of Lund.[http://www.thelundian.com/vol16_116.pdf Honorary doctorate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004020154/http://www.thelundian.com/vol16_116.pdf |date=2011-10-04 }}, The Lundian, vol. 16, no. 116, 2003; p. 4[http://www.netlib.org/na-digest-html/03/v03n23.html#1 Ernst Hairer Receives Honorary Doctorate from Lund University], NA Digest, June 7, 2003 Volume 3, Issue 23.

In 2003 he was awarded, jointly with Gerhard Wanner, the Peter Henrici Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=382 Close in Spirit to Peter Henrici], SIAM News, December 1, 2003, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Accessed 2011-05-06.

In 2009 a conference on scientific computing and differential equations was held in honor of his 60th birthday, at the University of Geneva, and in the same year the 7th International Conference in Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics in Crete was dedicated in his honor.[http://www.icnaam.org/icnaam_2009/index.htm ICNAAM 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323155544/http://www.icnaam.org/icnaam_2009/index.htm |date=2012-03-23 }}, retrieved 2011-05-06.

In 2009–2010 he was John-von-Neumann guest professor at the Technical University of Munich.

See also

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