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Zdenek Strakos -
Curriculum Vitae
[Education]
[Employment]
[Stays Abroad]
[Awards] [Grants] [Teaching Experience]
[Professional Activities]
[Thesis Advisor and Recent Collaborators]
[References]
Born
- 1957.
Education
- M.S. (Ing.) : Czech Technical University,
Prague, 1981 (Mathematics)
- Ph.D. (CSc.) : Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences,
Prague, 1986 (Computer Science)
Other degrees
- Second doctorate (habilitation) : Czech Technical
University, Prague, 1997 (Mathematics)
- D.Sc. (DrSc.): Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Rep., Prague, 2001 (Mathematics and Physics)
- Professor: TU Liberec, 2002 (Tech. Cybernetics)
Employment
- Sept. 2006 -
present: Charles University, Prague,
Professor (Mathematics), from January 2010 full time.
- Sept. 1981 - 2017:
Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of
Sciences, from January
2010 till 2017 part time.
- Sept. 1995 - 2000:
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.
- Visiting Associate Professor
(Sept. 1995 - Aug. 1996,
Aug. 1998 - Aug. 1999)
- Visiting Professor (Sept. 1999 - Aug.
2000)
- Adjunct Professor (Sept. 2000 -
present)
- History:
- Sep. 1981 - March 1990 : Ph.D.
Student, Research Fellow.
- March 1990 - June 1996 : Chair
and vicechair (from July 92), Dept.
of Num. Methods.
- July 1996 - July 2000 : Chair of
the Dept. of Applied Linear Algebra.
- August 2000 - May 2003 : Chair of
the Dept. of Computational Methods.
(In the academic years 91/92, 95/96,
98/99 and 99/2000 on leave.)
- Jan. 2001 -
June 2006: Technical
University Liberec
- Associate Professor (Jan.
2001 - May 2002), Professor
(May 2002 - June 2006)
-
Stays
Abroad
- Long
term: Emory
University, Atlanta (August
1998 - August 2000, August
1995 - June 1996), Institute
of Mathematics and Its
Applications, Univ. of
Minnesota (Sept. 1991 - July
1992).
- Short term:
Emory University, Atlanta (June
2011, November 2009, February
2006, May 2003, May 2001, May
1998, November 1997), TU Berlin
(April 2011, August 2010,
November 2009, November 2007,
October 2005, December 2004,
September 2004, February 2004,
June 3003, January 2003),ETH
Zurich (October 2010), Oxford
University (January 2010,
January 2009, January 2008),
Universtity of Paul Sabatier,
Toulouse (December 2009, May
2009), Hong Kong Baptist
University (February 2008),
Hamburg University of Technology
(December 2007), University of
Maryland, College Park (
November 2005, June 2003, March
2000), IUC, Urbana-Champaign
(May 2001), McGill University,
Montreal (April 2000, December
1998, October 1997), Oak Ridge
Natl. Laboratory (November
1998), University of Bielefeld
(March 1998), University of
Washington, Seattle (November
1997), CSCS/SCSC ETH Zurich
(September 1997, April 1997),
IAN C.N.R. Pavia (May 1997), TU
Freiberg (October 1996),
Linkoping University (September
1996, May 1994, October 1993),
Stanford University (March 1996,
June 1993, July 1992),
University of Utrecht (June
1995), Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, New York
University (June 1993, August
1990), Politechnica di Milano
(January 1993), University of
Bergamo (January 1991).
Awards
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- SIAM SIAG Prize; see SIAM Review, 66, No.1, pp. 124-146, 2024.
- Golden Memorial Medal of the Charles University, 2017.
Fellow of the Society for the Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2014.
- Bernard
Bolzano Honorary Medal for
Merits in Mathematical Sciences.
Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic, 2013.
- Medal of the Ministry
of Education, Youth and Sports
for achievements in high
education in the Czech Republic
and work in the Accrediation
Commission (2nd degree), 2012.
- Annual award of the
Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic, together with M. Tuma
and M. Rozloznik, 2006.
- SIAM
Activity Group on Linear
Algebra (SIAG/LA) Prize
"Most outstanding paper in
applicable linear algebra
published in the years 1991-93"
(together with A. Greenbaum;
also R. Freund and N.
Nachtigal), 1994.
- Support for the 10
month participation in the
Applied Linear Algebra Year,
IMA, University of Minnesota,
Sept. 1991 - June 1992.
Major
projects
- ERC-CZ
project LL1202:
- Implicitly
constituted material
models: from theory
through model reduction
to efficient numerical
methods (MORE),
2012-2017.
- Charles University in
Prague:
- University
Center for Mathematical
Modeling, Applied
Analysis and
Computational
Mathematics (MathMac),
2012-2016.
- History:
- NSF Grant
INT-9218024:
- Iterative Methods
for Nonsymmetric Linear
Systems and Eigenvalue
Problems ( joint
project with Anne
Greenbaum), June 1993 -
June 1996.
- Academy of Sc. of
the Czech Rep. Grant 23007:
- Convergence and
Stability of the
Conjugate Gradient Type
Methods for Solving
Linear Systems and
Computing Eigenvalues,
Jan. 1991 - Dec. 1993.
- Academy of Sc. of
the Czech Rep. Grant 230401:
- Numerical Solution
of Linear Algebraic
Systems with
Applications to
Nonlinear Problems,
Jan. 1994 - Dec. 1996.
- Academy of Sc. of
the Czech Rep. Grant A2030706:
- Preconditioned
Iterative Methods for
Linear Algebraic Systems,
Jan. 1997 - Dec. 1999.
- Supervisor for the
Grant 201/98/P108, Grant
Agency of the Czech Republic.
- NSF Grant
DMS-9802919 (Applied
Mathematics, PI Anne
Greenbaum):
- Preconditioned
Iterative Methods for
Large Linear Systems,
Sept. 1998 - Aug. 2001.
- CNR Italy - Czech
Ministry of Education Grant:
- Iterative methds
for Solutions of Linear
Systems, PI Mario
Arioli and Zdenek Strakos,
1998-2001.
- GACR Grant
201/02/0595:
- Mathematical theory
of iterative processes
with applications,
2002-2004.
- Program Information
Society Project 1ET400300415:
- Modeling
and Simulation of
Complex Technical
Problems,
2004-2008.
- GAAV Grant
IAA100300802:
- Theory
of Krylov subspace
methods and its
relationship to other
mathematical
disciplines,
2008-2012.
Teaching
- Matrix Iterative Methods I, Charles
University, Prague.
- Literature:
- J. Liesen and Z. Strakos, Krylov Subspace
Methods, Principles and Analysis, Oxford
University Press, 2012, 408p;
- W. Hackbusch, Iterative Solution of Large
Sparse Systems of Equations, Springer-Verlag,
1994, 429p.;
- Y. Saad, Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear
Systems, SIAM Publications, 2003, 528p.;
- Y. V. Vorobyev, Method of Moments in Applied
Mathematics, Gordon and Breach Sci. Publ., 1965,
165p.
- Foundations of Numerical Mathematics, Charles
University in Prague.
- Literature: J. Duintjer Tebbens, I.
Hnetynkova, M. Plesinger, Z. Strakos and P. Tichy,
Analysis of Matrix Computations I, Matfyzpress,
Prague, 2012, 328 p.;
- A. Greenbaum and T. P. Chartier, Numerical
Methods, Princeton University Press, 2012, 454
p.
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- Research
Seminar Modelling
of materials: theory,
model reduction and
efficient numerical
methods
- History:
- Topics in
Numerical Linear
Algebra, Charles
University, Prague.
- Numerical
Linear Algebra,
Charles University,
Prague.
- Numerical Methods
of Algebra, Technical
University Liberec.
- Parallel Computer
Architectures,
Czech Technical
University, Prague.
- Perturbation
Theory and Numerical
Stability, Czech
Technical University,
Prague.
- Advanced Numerical
Linear Algebra,
Czech Technical
University, Prague.
- Multivariable
Calculus (Math211),
Emory University,
Atlanta.
- Differential
Equations (Math212),
Emory University,
Atlanta.
- Numerical Analysis
(Math315), Emory
University, Atlanta.
- Abstract Vector
Spaces (Math321),
Emory University,
Atlanta.
- Numerical Analysis
I (Math515),
Emory University,
Atlanta.
- Numerical Analysis
II (Math516),
Emory University,
Atlanta.
- Directed Study
(Math556, Math797R),
Emory University,
Atlanta.
- Supervisor and
consultant of ten Ph.D.
students (seven
completed), eight M.S.
students (eight
completed), three B.S.
student (three
completed).
Main
Professional
Activities
- Member
of the European
Research Council (ERC)
Advanced Grant
Evaluation Panel (PE6),
2008 - 2014, Chair of
the Panel 2014-2015.
- Member
of the Applied
Mathematics Committee
of the European
Mathematical Society
(EMS), 2010 -
2017. Member and Vicechair of the EMS Meetings Committee, 2018 -
present.
- Member of the
EMS Publishing House Scientific
Advisory Board,
2015-present
- Member
of the International
Householder Committee,
2005 - 2014.
- Member
of the ICIAM 2015
Scientific Program
Committee, 2013
- 2015.
- Member
of the SIAM LA 2015
Scientific Program
Committee, 2014 -2015.
- Member
of the
Scientific Board
of the
Foundation
Neuron,
2013-2017.
- Member of the SIAM Activity Group on
Linear Algebra Prize Committee, 1999-2000,
- Member of the Screening Committee,
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Emory University, 1998/99 and 1999/2000.
- Member of the Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), SIAG on Linear
Algebra, SIAG on Supercomputing, the
International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS), the
GAMM Activity Group Applied and Numerical Linear
Algebra, the American Mathematical Society
(AMS), the Union of the Czech and Slovak
Mathematicians and Physicists.
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Member
of the
Editorial
Boards
- ICIAM
Newsletter DIANOIA,
2013-present;
- SIAM Journal on Matrix
Analysis and
Applications (SIMAX),
1996-2005;
- Linear
Algebra and Its
Applications(LAA),
2005-present;
- LAA Special Issue in
honor of Miroslav
Fiedler, Volume 421,
issues 2+3, 2007;
- Electronic
Transactions on
Numerical Analysis
(ETNA),
2000-present;
- ETNA Special Volume
(31, 2008)
"Computational Methods
with Applications"
devoted to the meeting
held in Harrachov,
August 2007,
http://www.cs.cas.cz/~harrachov;
- Guest editor of BIT,
Volume 23 Supplement
2003, Special issue
devoted to the meeting
Computational Linear
Algebra with
Applications, Milovy,
August 2002,
http://www.cs.cas.cz/~milovy.
- Co-organizer and
member of international program
commitees of several international
conferences, in particular: IMA
Conference on Numerical Linear
Algebra and Optimization,
Birmingham, September 2010;
Computational Methods with
Applications, Harrachov, August
2007; ERCIM WG Workshop on Matrix
Computations in Statistics, Prague,
August 2004; COMPSTAT 2004, Prague,
August 2004; IMET 2004, May 2004;
Computational Linear Algebra with
Applications, Milovy, August 2002;
International Workshop on Iterative
Methods, Milovy, June 1997;
Algoritmy 2005, Podbanske, Slovakia,
March 2005; Conference Commemorating
50 years of Conjugate Gradients,
Zurich, February 2002.
- Thesis Advisor (ICS
AS CR Praha):
- V. Sebesta
- Collaborators over past 4
years:
- J. Liesen, P. Malek, G. Meurant,
P. Tichy, I. Hnetynkova, M.
Vohralik, P. Jiranek, M. Plesinger.
References
- D. Duffus, Emory
University, Dept. of Mathematics and
CS, Atlanta, GA 30322, U.S.A.
- M. Eiermann, Institut fur
Angewandte Mathematik II, TU
Bergakademie Freiberg, 09569
Freiberg, Germany,
- A. Greenbaum, Math. Dept., Box
350354, University of Washington,
Seattle,WA, U.S.A.
- M. H. Gutknecht, CSCS/SCSC, ETH
Zurich, ETH Zentrum, CH-8092 Zurich,
Switzerland
- G. Meurant, CEA/DIF, BP 12,
Bruyeres-le-Chatel, F-91680, France
- N. J. Higham, University of
Manchester, School of Mathematics,
Sackville St., Manchester, M60 1QD,
UK
- V. L. Mehrmann, Dept. of
Mathematics, Technical University of
Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
- D. P. O`Leary, University of
Maryland, Department of Computer
Science, 4172 A.V. Williams
Building, College Park, MD 20742,
U.S.A.
- M. Overton, Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences,NYU, 251
Mercer St. New York, NY 10012,
U.S.A.
- C. C. Paige, Dept. of Comp.
Science, McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7
- B. N. Parlett, Dept. of Comp.
Science, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.
- V. Rodl, Emory University, Dept.
of Mathematics and CS, Atlanta, GA
30322, U.S.A.
- P. M. Van Dooren, CESAME, Avenue
Georges Lemaitre, B - 1348 Louvain
la Neuve, Belgium.
- N. L. Trefethen, Oxford University
Computing Laboratory, Wolfson
Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1
3QD, UK.
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