Assyr Abdulle (19 January 1971 – 1 September 2021) was a Swiss mathematician.[1] He specialized in numerical mathematics.
Assyr Abdulle | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 January 1971 Geneva, Switzerland |
| Died | 1 September 2021 (aged 50) |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
Biography
editAbdulle earned a doctorate in mathematics under Gerhard Wanner and Ernst Hairer at the University of Geneva with the thesis Méthodes de Chebyshev basées sur des polynômes orthogonaux.[2] He also earned a degree in violin and music from the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève in 1993. From 2001 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and worked at the computational laboratory at ETH Zurich from 2002 to 2003. In 2003, he became an assistant professor at the University of Basel and an associate professor at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. He then became a full professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[3] At the school, he started the master's degree in computational science.[4] In 2016, he became Director of the Institut Mathicse and was founding Director of the Institut de Mathématiques in 2017.[5]
Abdulle was impassioned with modeling and numerical simulations in biology, chemistry, geology, and medicine.[6][7][8] He notably contributed to the development of heterogeneous multi-scale methods. He developed methods for solving multiscale and ergodic stochastic problems.[9][10] He also invented the Orthogonal Runge-Kutta-Chebyshev,[11] which was used to solve stiff differential equations which were then generalized to multiscale stochastic systems.[12][13]
In 2005, Abdulle won the New Talent Award at the International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations.[14] He received an advanced research fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in 2007.[15] In 2009, he won the James H. Wilkinson Prize in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing,[16][17] awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, for his contributions to applied mathematics.[18] He won the Germund Dahlquist Prize in 2013.[19][20][21]
Assyr Abdulle died on 1 September 2021 at the age of 50.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Assyr Abdulle, 1971-2021". EPFL (in French). 9 March 2021.
- ^ "Assyr Abdulle". Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ "Welcome to the Chair of Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis held by Prof. Assyr Abdulle". EPFL.
- ^ "Model of knowledge: EPFL's Master in Computational Science & Engineering" (PDF). EPFL (in French). 9 March 2016.
- ^ "Institute of Mathematics – MATH". EPFL.
- ^ Abdulle, Assyr (2009). "The finite element heterogeneous multiscale method: a computational strategy for multiscale PDEs". Gakkōtosho. Tokyo.
- ^ Abdulle, Assyr; Henning, Patrick (2017). "Multiscale methods for wave problems in heterogeneous media". Elsevier/North-Holland. Amsterdam.
- ^ Abdulle, Assyr; E, Weinan; Engquist, Björn; Vanden-Eijnden, Eric (2012). "The heterogeneous multiscale method". University Press. Cambridge.
- ^ Abdulle, Assyr; Vilmart, Gilles; Zygalakis, Konstantinos (2014). "High order numerical approximation of the invariant measure of ergodic SDEs". SIAM.
- ^ Abdulle, Assyr; Pavliotis, Grigorios A.; Vaes, Urbain (2017). "Spectral methods for multiscale stochastic differential equations". SIAM.
- ^ Abdulle, Assyr; Medovikov, Alexei A. (2002). "Second order Chebyshev methods based on orthogonal polynomials". Springer.
- ^ Abdulle, Assyr; Cirille, Stephane (2008). "Chebyshev methods for stiff stochastic differential equations". SIAM.
- ^ Abdulle, Assyr; Almuslimani, Ibrahim; Vilmart, Gilles (2018). "Optimal explicit stabilized integrator of weak order 1 for stiff and ergodic stochastic differential equations". SIAM.
- ^ "Scicade New Talent-Preis an Prof. Dr. Assyr Abdulle". University of Basel (in German). 18 April 2005. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ "Advanced Research Fellowship: Multiscale methods for nonlinear problems in strongly heterogenous media and stiff stochastic systems". The University of Edinburgh.
- ^ "Prize History". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
- ^ "Mathematics People" (PDF). AMS. October 2009.
- ^ "Professor honored with prestigious award for work in computational mathematics". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 30 June 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
- ^ "Prize History". SIAM.
- ^ "SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize". Maths History.
- ^ Paz Calvo, Mari (1 May 2014). "Assyr Abdulle Receives 2013 SIAM Dahlquist Prize". Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 8 September 2021.