Curiculum vitae
Born: 24 January 1933 in Prague, Czechoslovakia
Education:
1956 • Charles University Prague, Mathematics
1962 • PhD. Charles university Prague
1968 • DrSc. Doctor of Sciences Academy of Sciences, Prague
1977 • Professor of Mathematics 1977.
Scientific interests
Numerical Analysis and Operator Theory: Numerical Solution of Operator Equations,
Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations,
Large Scale Computations, Multigrid and Aggregation Methods,
Κ-positive Operators with applications to problems of Mathematical Physics,
Homogenisation, Data Processing, Data Fitting.
Employments:
1956-1963 • Nuclear Research Institute, Řež u Prahy
1963-1996 • Charles University of Prague, Professor of Mathematics
1968-1970 • Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1970 • Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1971 • Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, USSR, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1983 • Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1985 • Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1989 • Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1990 • University of Konstanz, Germany, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1991 • Purdue University, Indiana, USA, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1992 • University of Konstanz, Germany, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1993 • University of Konstanz, Germany, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1995 • Hamburg University, Germany, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
1996 • Konstanz University, Germany, Visiting Professor of Mathematics
Further Professional Activities:
1963-till present • Nuclear Research Institute of Czechoslovak Atomic Energy Commission, consultant - specialist
1993-till present • Institute of Geonics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Memberships in Academies etc.:
1984 • Corresponding Member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
1985 • Honorary Professor, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
1994 • Active member in New York Academy
1995 • Active member in Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Salzburg
Distinctions, honours, etc.
1978 • Silver Medal of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University
1980 • Bronz Medal of the Faculty of Nuclear Science and Engineering
1982 • National Price of the Czech Republic in Mathematics
1983 • Bolzano Silver Medal for Merits in Mathematics
1983 • Bronz Medal of the Charles University
1988 • Medal of Peace of the Charles University
1988 • Memorial Medal of J. E. Purkyně of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
1989 • Memorial Medal of the Technical University Košice
Memberships in editorial boards of scientific journals:
- Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae, edited by the Charles University of Prague, Prague, Czechoslovakia (since 1966)
- Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, Ed. Company J. Wiley Publ. New York (since 1990)
- Mathematica Aplicada e Computational, edited by Sociedade Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (since 1987)
- Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, Ed. Company Dekker, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. (since 1978)
- Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations,Ed. Company Academic Press, New York, N. Y. U.S.A. (since 1986)
- Integral Transforms and Special Functions, Ed. Company Birkhäuser, Basel (since 1992)
Memberships in scientific institutions and organizations:
- American Mathematical Society (since 1968)
- Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (since 1972)
- from April 1996 till January 2004 chairman of the Czech Section of GAMM
- Union of Czechoslovak Mathematicians and Physicists (od 1963)
Address:
KNM MFF University Karlovy
Malostranské nám. 25
118 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
Prague, May 26, 2008.
