Petter E. Bjørstad#
| Membership Number: | 2298 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ii.uib.no/~petter |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2010 - present Head of Department of Informatics, University of Bergen
- 2000 - 2010 Director, Bergen center for Computational Science
- 2006 - 2010 Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen
- 1985 - 2005 Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen
- 1996 - 1997 Professor of Mathematics, University of Minnesota (unpaid leave from 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
