Olga Holtz

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Olga Holtz

Holtz at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, October 2009
Born (1973-08-19) August 19, 1973
Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of California, Berkeley, TU Berlin
Alma mater South Ural State University
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Olga Holtz (Russian: Ольга Гольц; born August 19, 1973 in Soviet Union) is a Russian mathematician specializing in numerical analysis. She received the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award in 2006[1] and the European Mathematical Society Prize (2008). Since 2008, she is a member of the Young Academy (Junge Akademie[2]) of Germany.

Her Erdős number is 3.

Life

Holtz's early mathematical development was largely due to her parents, who were both programmers. At the age of 15, she was selected for a high school that specialized in mathematics, which she graduated from two years later. Holtz attended the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk (1995) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison (2000), staying on at the latter until 2002 in a postdoctorate research position after earning her Ph.D. She then spent 1.5 years in Germany with a Humboldt research fellowship at the Institute of Mathematics of the Technical University Berlin, before returning to the United States in 2004, where she held a Morrey Assistant Professorship at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley from 2004 to 2007.

After winning a €1,000,000 Sofia Kovalevskaya Award in 2006, Holtz built her research group at the Technical University Berlin,[3] where she became a Professor of applied mathematics while concurrently serving as an Associate, then Full Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. Since then, Holtz has garnered additional honors. The European Mathematical Society awarded her its 2008 prize, and the European Research Council awarded her €880,000 Starting Grant in August 2010.[3]

Holtz, who considered a career in music before deciding on mathematics, performs with the Berlin Philharmonic Choir and practices ballroom dancing.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Sofia Kovalevskaya Award 2006
  2. ↑ Junge Akademie
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Olga Holtz". Berlin Sciences: The Science Portal of Berlin. Retrieved 18 January 2011. 
  4. ↑ Janositz, Paul. "The Sound of Mathematics". Humboldt-Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2011. 

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