Susanne Brenner
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Susanne Cecelia Brenner is an American mathematician, whose research concerns the finite element method and related techniques for the numerical solution of differential equations. She is a Boyd Professor{{Cite web|url=https://www.math.lsu.edu/node/2489|title=Susanne C. Brenner named Boyd Professor {{!}} LSUMath|website=www.math.lsu.edu|access-date=2019-11-18}} at Louisiana State University. Previously, she held the Nicholson Professorship of Mathematics and the Michael F. and Roberta Nesbit McDonald Professorship at Louisiana State University,[https://www.math.lsu.edu/node/1487 Brenner Named Michael F. and Roberta Nesbit McDonald Professor], LSU Mathematics, August 16, 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-15. She currently chairs the editorial committee of the journal Mathematics of Computation.[http://www.ams.org/publications/journals/journalsframework/mcomedit Mathematics of Computation Editorial Board]. Retrieved 2013-10-15. During 2021-2022 she is serving as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Education and career
Brenner did her undergraduate studies in mathematics and German at West Chester State College and received a master's degree in mathematics from SUNY Stony Brook.[https://www.math.lsu.edu/~brenner/b2013.pdf Curriculum vitae]. Retrieved 2013-10-15. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1988 under the joint supervision of Jeffrey Rauch and L. Ridgway Scott; her thesis was entitled "Multigrid Methods for Nonconforming Finite Elements".{{mathgenealogy|id=7123}}
She held faculty positions at Clarkson University and the University of South Carolina before moving to Louisiana State University in 2006.{{Cite web|date=2020-01-02|title=Louisiana State's Susanne Brenner Named President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics|url=https://www.wiareport.com/2020/01/louisiana-states-susanne-brenner-named-president-of-the-society-for-industrial-and-applied-mathematics/|access-date=2020-11-20|website=Women In Academia Report}}
Selected publications
- interior penalty methods for fourth order elliptic boundary value problems on polygonal domains. J. Sci. Comput. 22/23 (2005), 83–118.
- Korn's inequalities for piecewise vector fields. Math. Comp. 73 (2004), no. 247, 1067–1087.
- Poincaré-Friedrichs inequalities for piecewise functions. SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 41 (2003), no. 1, 306–324.
- with L. R. Scott, The Mathematical Theory of Finite Element Methods (Springer-Verlag, 1994; 3rd edition, 2008).
Recognition
She is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,[http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2010 SIAM Fellows: Class of 2010]. Retrieved 2013-10-15. the American Mathematical Society,[http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society]. Retrieved 2013-10-15. and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/2012.shtml 2012 Fellows], AAAS. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
The Association for Women in Mathematics has included her in the 2020 class of AWM Fellows for "being a role model nationally and internationally due to her widely-known work in finite element methods; for her promotion of women in mathematics via the Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing network, as mentor of Ph.D.s, and as advisor of graduate and undergraduate students".{{citation|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2020-awm-fellows/|title=2020 Class of AWM Fellows|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|access-date=2019-11-08}} Brenner was also awarded a Humboldt Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2005.{{cite web | title=Prof. Dr. Susanne Brenner | website=Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation | date=2017-12-10 | url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview?tx_rsmavhsolr_solrviewhumboldtians%5BpPersonId%5D=1118872&cHash=811da1c2f22678925ec8d848bc368d4c | access-date=2022-11-29}}
She is included in a deck of playing cards featuring notable women mathematicians published by the Association of Women in Mathematics.{{Cite web |title=Mathematicians of EvenQuads Deck 1 |url=https://awm-math.org/publications/playing-cards/deck1/#brenner |access-date=2022-06-18 |website=awm-math.org}}
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