Petter E. Bjørstad#

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Email:	petter 'at' ii.uib.no
Membership Number:	2298
Main Country of Residence:	NORWAY
Section:	INFORMATICS
Username:	pbjorstad

Homepage: http://www.ii.uib.no/~petter





Present and Previous Positions

• 1996-1997 Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota (unpaid leave from Bergen)
• 2000-present Director, Bergen center for Computational Science
• 2006-present Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen
• 1985-2005 Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen
• 1981-1985 Principal Engineer, Det Norske Veritas
• 1980-1981 Post Doc. Courant Institute of Math. Sciences, New York University
• 1980 PhD Computer Science, Stanford University

Fields of Scholarship

• numerical analysis
• domain decomposition
• elliptic PDE
• numerical linear algebra
• parallel computing
• high performance computing

Honours and Awards

• Large number of research grants from Norway and the European Union