Christoph Zenger

Christoph Zenger ( born August 10, 1940) is a German mathematician and computer scientist.

Life and work

Christoph Zenger completed his PhD under Friedrich Ludwig Bauer on " Generalized value sets of matrices ". At 35, he qualified as a professor and then got a chair at the Technical University of Munich. There he is professor for computer science with a focus on scientific computing and professor of the faculty.

Zenger is working on a border area between mathematics and computer science. He is especially devoted to the study of partial differential equations and wrote groundbreaking work to improve the efficiency of " multi-level process " that will ultimately lead to the solution of linear systems of equations with a significantly reduced number of unknowns without losing accuracy.

Another focus of his scientific work are next to engineering applications of computer science and high performance computing.

More recent research include:

  • Commissioned by the German Research Foundation: Numerical Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction on Cartesian grids
  • " New mathematical methods in industry and services "
  • Efficient, robust and accurate solver for linear systems of equations resulting from the mechanistic models for the simulation of time-dependent two-phase water-steam flows.
  • LIA: teaching, infrastructure, public image
  • SKVg: flows in complex, variable geometries

Christoph Zenger is a member of the Executive Board of the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum and longtime director of the joint annual holiday Academy of Technical University of Munich, the University of Erlangen -Nuremberg and the University of Stuttgart. Since 2000, Zenger is a full member of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

He is also a member of the " Working Group Company Consulting / future issues," the Union of the German Academies of Sciences.

Honors

  • 2001: Federal Cross of Merit
  • Honorary Doctor of the University of Konya, Turkey
  • 2004: Honorary doctorate from the State University of Saint Petersburg

Works

  • A cache- oblivious self- adaptive full multigrid method. , 2006.
  • The curse of dimension in the numerical simulation., 2004.
  • With Hans -Joachim Bungartz and Michael Griebel: Introduction to Computer Graphics. Vieweg, Braunschweig, 2002, ISBN 3-528-16769-6.
  • Sascha Hilgenfeldt and Robert Balder: Sparse Grids. SFB, Munich 1995.
  • Michael Griebel and Michael Schneider: A combination technique continues the solution of sparse grid problems. SFB, Munich 1990.
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