Achi Brandt

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Achi Brandt (Hebrew: אחי ברנדט‎; born 1938 in Givat Brenner, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician, noted for his pioneering contributions to multigrid methods.

Brandt got his Ph.D. degree at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1965, with a thesis on numerical methods in hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. He is a faculty at that institute, and has held numerous visiting positions at universities in the United States, including the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Stanford University, etc. He was the recipient of the Landau Prize in Mathematics in 1978, Rothschild Prize in Mathematics in 1990, and the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering in 2005; the latter awarded for "pioneering modern multilevel methods, from multigrid solvers for partial differential equations to multiscale techniques for statistical physics, and for influencing almost every aspect of contemporary computational science and engineering".

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• Achi Brandt Weizmann Institute