Heinz-Otto Kreiss

Heinz- Otto Kreiss (* 1930 in Hamburg) is a Swedish- American mathematician who deals with partial differential equations, their numerical analysis and their applications.

Kreiss earned his doctorate in 1959 at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm ( via the solution of Cauchyproblems for linear partial differential equations with difference equations ) with Göran Borg. In the 1970s he was professor at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm ( where he was the first Professor of Numerical Analysis was from 1965) and in the 1980s at Caltech, where he is now emeritus. He was also a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA).

Kreiss studied the initial value problem of partial differential equations, numerical solution of partial differential equations, difference equations and applications to hydrodynamics and meteorology.

In 1974 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Vancouver (Initial Boundary Value Problem for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations ). In 2002 he received the Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics. In 2003 he was John von Neumann Lecturer of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ). He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His doctoral counts Björn Engquist.

Writings

• Jens Lorenz: Initial - boundary value problems and the Navier -Stokes equations, Academic Press, 1989 SIAM 2004
• With Hedwig Ulmer Breast Hart: Time -dependent partial differential equations and Their numerical solution, Birkhauser 2001