Mark Embree
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| nationality = {{flagicon|US}} American
| fields = Mathematician
| workplaces = Rice University
| alma_mater = University of Oxford
Virginia Tech
| doctoral_advisor = Andrew Wathen
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| known_for = Krylov subspace methods, non-normal operators and spectral perturbation theory, Toeplitz matrices, random matrices, and damped wave operators
| awards = Man of the Year and Outstanding Student in the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech (1996)
Rhodes Scholar (1996)
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Mark Embree is professor of computational and applied mathematics [http://www.caam.rice.edu] at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Until 2013, he was a professor of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Mark Embree was awarded Man of the Year and Outstanding Student in the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech in 1996. He was also a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he completed his doctorate.
Early life
Mark Embree attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.{{cite news | date = December 11, 1995 | title = Rhodes Scholarships Go To Four With D.C. or VA. Ties | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/12/11/rhodes-scholarships-go-to-four-people-with-dc-or-va-ties/6790e84a-9f4b-4f54-8b12-a416e6591fb2/ | newspaper = The Washington Post}}
Research
His main research interests are Krylov subspace methods, non-normal operators and spectral perturbation theory, Toeplitz matrices, random matrices, and damped wave operators.
= Books =
Dr Mark Embree wrote a book with Lloyd N. Trefethen titled [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8113.html Spectra and Pseudospectra: The Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and Operators].
See also
External links
- [http://www.math.vt.edu/people/embree Dr. Embree's Virginia Tech Homepage]
- [http://www.caam.rice.edu/~embree Dr. Embree's Rice Homepage]
- [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=81517 Dr. Embree's Mathematical Genealogy]
- [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8113.html Spectra and Pseudospectra: The Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and Operators]
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