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Prof. Dr. Walter Gander
Walter Gander is professor emeritus of ETH Zürich (Computer Science). He
received his diploma in 1968 and his PhD in 1973 in mathematics from
ETH Zürich. 1973-1987:
Professor for numerical analysis and computer science
at Neu-Technikum
Buchs. 1977/78 Visiting researcher
at Stanford University.
1987 associate, 1991 full professor for computer science
at ETH Zürich. 1989 founder and
head of the Institute of Scientific Computing. 1990 - 1992: chairmen
of the Departmet of Computer
Science. 1989 -1991 head of the Swiss Supercomputer Initiative for
acquiring the national supercomputer. 1997-2000 chairman of the
department and director of studies of computer science
at ETH Zürich. After his
retirement from ETH Zürich,
2009-2020 visiting professor
at Hong Kong Baptist University
each Spring semester.
Research interests: Scientific Computing, Numerical
Linear Algebra and Parallel Computing.
Prof. Dr. Martin
J. Gander
Martin J. Gander, born January 12, 1967, from Saanen (BE),
Switzerland. Education: Diploma in Computer
Science ETH Zürich 1994; Master
in Mathematics from Stanford
University 1995; PhD in Scientific Computing and Computational
Mathematics from Stanford
University 1997, supervisor A.M. Stuart. Postdoctoral Fellow at
Ecole Polytechnique in Paris from 1998-1999. Assistant and associate
professor with tenure at McGill
University in Montreal from 1999-2004. Since then full Professor
of Mathematics at the University of
Geneva. Vice Dean of
the Faculty of Science
since 2009.
Research interests: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing,
Numerical Linear Algebra and Parallel Computing, Preconditioning.
Dr. Felix
Kwok
Felix Kwok, from Hong Kong. Education: BSc in Joint Honours
Mathematics and Computer Science and BEng in Computer Engineering at
McGill University in 2002, then PhD
in Scientific Computing/Computational Mathematics
at Stanford University in 2008,
under the supervision of Prof. H. Tchelepi. From 2008 to 2014, he was
part of Prof. M.J. Gander's research group at
the University of Geneva, first as a
postdoctoral assistant, then as a collaborateur scientifique.
In fall 2014, he became an assistant professor
at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Research interests: Scientific computing, numerical
methods for linear and nonlinear PDEs, numerical linear algebra,
parallel computing, large-scale simulation, applications in physics
and engineering.
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