Olga Holtz
Olga Holtz (Russian Ольга Гольц; born August 19, 1973 in Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Urals Federal District ) is a Russian mathematician.
Life
The parents were both programmers. Even as a student fell to his mathematical talent, so they came to a high school with mathematical emphasis.
Olga Holtz began her studies at the State University of South Urals in Chelyabinsk, where in 1995 she made her diploma. In 1996 she moved to Madison (Wisconsin ) in the USA. There it was in 2000 at the University of Wisconsin at Hans Schneider PhD ( theorem and counterexamples on structured matrices ), where they subsequently did research at the Institute of computer science. In 2002, she was awarded a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and worked for a year at the Technical University of Berlin Volker Mehrmann. 2004-2007 Holtz was an assistant professor ( Morrey Assistant Professor ) at the University of California, Berkeley, with Alan Weinstein. In November 2006, Olga Holtz Sofia Kovalevskaya Prize winner was. So she got the opportunity to realize a budget of just under 1 million euros for four years a research project. She chose again the Technical University of Berlin. In 2008 she received the EMS Prize and was inducted into the Young Academy. In 2009 she received the anticipation professorship at the Technical University of Berlin, 2010 an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council with a budget of 880,000 euros for five years. Besides her professorship in Berlin she is a professor at Berkeley. 2009/2010 she was a Fellow at the John von Neumann Institute for Advanced Study.
Holtz has in addition to the Mathematics additional interests. She loves music, especially of Johann Sebastian Bach, and had considered as a profession also trained as a pianist. She is also active choral singer and dancer. Since 2007, she sings in the Berlin Philharmonic Choir, under the artistic director Jörg- Peter Weigle.
2013 she directed her first feature film, the Zahir, which was shot in Berkeley. It is inspired by an eponymous short story by Jorge Luis Borges and the Magic Realism, and has to follow as a theme the obsession own ideas.
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Services
It deals among others with numerical linear algebra and matrix theory, commutative algebra, computer science (analysis of algorithms, complexity theory ), numerical analysis (such as wavelets and splines, approximation theory ), abzählender combinatorics ( such as algebra of Zonotopen ), signal processing (such as compressive sensing) and probability theory. In a eulogy to the EMS price 2008wurde in particular the proof of Newton's inequalities for M- matrices, fundamental work on the evaluation of polynomials in finite arithmetic and the evidence highlighted that all based on group theory algorithms for fast matrix multiplication are numerically stable.