RENDEZVOUS | How math impacts the real world through computer simulations: Prof. Siddhartha Mishra

RENDEZVOUS with 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳. 𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗿𝗮, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

“𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀?”

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁:
In this lecture, the speaker will highlight how a computational mathematician operates his research program through three illustrative examples, one from geophysics, one from climate science and one from biology. The aim would be to convey the work pipeline consisting of mathematical modelling of natural phenomena, analysis of the resulting models, design of efficient algorithms, their implementation on the state of the art computing platforms and seamless integration with data."

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿:
Siddhartha Mishra is currently a Professor of Applied Mathematics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Prof. Mishra completed his BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Physics from Utkal University in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He then joined the MS program in Mathematical Sciences jointly run by IISc and TIFR in Bengaluru and finished his MS-PhD in 2005. For his post-doc, he worked at the University of Oslo, and subsequently held faculty appointments at ETH Zürich and the University of Oslo, before returning to ETH as an Associate Professor in 2012. He has been a full Professor at ETH since 2015.

Prof. Mishra’s research interests lie in applied mathematics, especially in areas of Numerical Analysis and Non-linear Partial Differential Equations. In these areas, Prof. Mishra has made outstanding contributions by constructing numerical methods, analyzing their effectiveness, and implementing them to solve real-world problems in fields like astrophysics, aerodynamics, image processing, weather prediction and biological systems.

For his work, he has won several awards and recognitions, like the Richard von Mises prize by GAMM (2015), the ICIAM Collatz Prize (2019) and the Infosys Prize (2019). He was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Rio de Janeiro in 2018.

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