Marsha Berger

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Marsha J. Berger (* 1953 ) is an American mathematician and computer scientist who deals with numerical hydrodynamics .

Berger studied mathematics at the State University of New York with a bachelor's degree in 1974. She then worked as a scientific programmer at Argonne National Laboratory , before continuing her studies at Stanford University with a master's degree in computer science in 1978 and a doctorate in 1982 with Joseph Oliger (Dissertation: Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations ). At Stanford she was associated with the SLAC . She then went to the Courant Institute and taught at New York University. She was the assistant director of the Courant Institute.

It deals with numerical mathematics, high-performance parallel computers and numerical hydrodynamics, for example in software for the aircraft and space industry.

In 1988 she received a Presidential Young Investigator Award and in 2002 the NASA Software of the Year Award (for Cart3D). Berger received the Sidney Fernbach Award from the IEEE and in 2019 the Norbert Wiener Prize . She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000), the National Academy of Engineering (2005, for the development of adaptive lattice refinement algorithms and software that advanced engineering applications, especially in aerospace (laudation)), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011) and Fellow of SIAM .

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  1. ↑ Marsha Berger in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ National Academy of Engineering , entry Berger
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
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SURNAME Berger, Marsha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berger, Marsha J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1953