Olga Holtz
{{Short description|Russian mathematician (born 1973)}}
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| workplaces = University of California, Berkeley, TU Berlin
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Olga Holtz ({{lang-rus|Ольга Гольц}}; born August 19, 1973) is a Russian mathematician specializing in numerical analysis. She received the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award in 2006{{cite web|url=http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/skp-2006-en.html|title=Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation - SKP Award Winners 2006|work=humboldt-foundation.de|accessdate=14 December 2014}} and the European Mathematical Society Prize (2008). Since 2008, she is a member of the Young Academy (Junge Akademie{{cite web|url=http://www.diejungeakademie.de/index.php|title=Die Junge Akademie: Home|author=Die Junge Akademie|work=diejungeakademie.de|accessdate=14 December 2014}}) of Germany.
Life
Holtz's early mathematical development was largely due to her parents, who were both programmers. At the age of 15, she was selected for a high school that specialized in mathematics, which she graduated from two years later. Holtz attended the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk (1995) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2000), staying on at the latter until 2002 in a postdoctorate research position after earning her Ph.D. She then spent 1.5 years in Germany with a Humboldt research fellowship at the Institute of Mathematics of Technische Universität Berlin, before returning to the United States in 2004, where she held a Morrey Assistant Professorship at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley from 2004 to 2007.
After winning a €1,000,000 Sofia Kovalevskaya Award in 2006, Holtz built her research group at Technische Universität Berlin,{{cite web | url = http://www.berlin-sciences.com/en/facts/talents/talents/olga-holtz/ | title = Olga Holtz | publisher = Berlin Sciences: The Science Portal of Berlin | accessdate = 18 January 2011}} where she became a Professor of applied mathematics while concurrently serving as an Associate, then Full Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. Since then, Holtz has garnered additional honors. The European Mathematical Society awarded her its 2008 prize, and the European Research Council awarded her €880,000 Starting Grant in August 2010. In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to numerical linear algebra, numerical analysis, approximation theory, theoretical computer science, and algebra".{{citation|url=https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows|title=2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS|publisher=American Mathematical Society|accessdate=2015-11-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210180447/http://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/new-fellows|archive-date=2015-12-10}}.
Holtz, who considered a career in music before deciding on mathematics, performs with the Berlin Philharmonic Choir and practices ballroom dancing.{{cite web | url = http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/719347.html | title = The Sound of Mathematics | last = Janositz | first = Paul | publisher = Humboldt-Foundation | accessdate = 18 January 2011}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~oholtz Homepage at University of California, Berkeley]
- [http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~holtz/holtz_en.html Homepage at TU Berlin]
- [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=49270 Holtz entry] in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Category:20th-century Russian mathematicians
Category:21st-century Russian mathematicians
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Category:Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Category:Soviet mathematicians
Category:Soviet women mathematicians
Category:University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
Category:Academic staff of Technische Universität Berlin