Susanne C. Brenner, Boyd Professor

Research interests include: numerical analysis, scientific computing, finite element methods, multigrid and domain decomposition methods, computational mechanics, computational electromagnetics, variational inequalities, PDE constrained optimization.

Susanne C. Brenner is a Louisiana State University System Boyd Professor. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation and Technology (CCT). At CCT she is also serving as the Associate Director for Academic Affairs since 2008.

During 2021-2022 she served as President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She served as President-Elect in 2020, and a one year term as Past President in 2023.

In 2005 she was awarded a Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She received a Humboldt Re-invitation Research Award in 2023. In 2011 she was awarded the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture Prize. She is a SIAM Fellow (Class of 2010), AMS Fellow (Inaugural Class 2013), AAAS Fellow (2012), and AWM Fellow (2020).

She serves on the editorial boards of Mathematics of Computation, (Managing Editor February 1, 2012 - January 31, 2024), SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Numerische Mathematik, Numerical Algorithms, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, the Journal of Numerical Mathematics, and Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics book series.

She served on the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (2016-2022) and as a Member-at-Large of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Section A (2017-2021) In addition, she was a member of the Electorate Nominating Committee for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Section A) and the SIAM Fellows Selection Committee (2014-2016; Chair 2015-2016). She is a past SIAM Vice President for Publications and served on the SIAM Council and Board, and the AMS Council.

Selected Other Recent Service:

Scientific Advisory Board, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, 2021-present
Scientific Advisory Board, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Universität Bonn, 2017-present
Conseil Scientifique, Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI), 2014-2020
Conseil Scientifique, Center International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA), 2009-2016
Secretary, Graduate Research Assistantships on Developing Countries (GRAID) Program, International Mathematical Union, 2016-2018
National Advisory Committee, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), 2010-2013
Member, European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant Panels
Member, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) Labex Panels
Member, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Excellence Panels

Address

 Department of Mathematics
 and Center for Computation & Technology
 303 Lockett Hall
 Louisiana State University
 Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Offices

212 Lockett Hall and 2073 Digital Media Center

Email

brenner .AT. math dot lsu dot edu

Telephone Number

(225) 578-8108

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Member, Editorial Boards:

Mathematics of Computation (1993-present; Editor, 2006-present, Managing Editor February 1, 2012-January 31, 2024)

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (1997-2002, 2005-present)

Numerische Mathematik (1998-present)

Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (2000-present)

Notices of the American Mathematical Society (2001-2015)

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Principal Editor, 2007-2010, Member Editorial Board 2010-2018)

Numerical Algorithms (2012-present)

Journal of Numerical Mathematics (2013-present)

Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (2019-present)

Results in Applied Mathematics (Honorary Editor, 2020-present)

SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics (2011-present, Editor-in-Chief, 2018-present)

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