Vivette Girault facts for kids
Vivette Girault is a famous French mathematician. She was born in 1943. She is known for her important work in a field called numerical analysis. This field uses computers to solve math problems. She also studied how liquids and gases move, which is called computational fluid dynamics. She used to teach at Pierre and Marie Curie University, which is now part of Sorbonne Université in France.
Vivette Girault was born in Nice, France. She went to high school in Caracas, Venezuela. Later, she earned her first university degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After finishing her studies there, she went back to France. She wanted to learn more about numerical analysis.
She joined the math department at the Université Paris. This university later became the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC). Today, it is known as Sorbonne Université. Vivette Girault is now a professor emerita at Sorbonne Université. This means she is a retired professor who is still highly respected. She works with the CNRS, Laboratoire Jacque-Louis Lions, in Paris, France.
Contributions to Mathematics
Vivette Girault has made many important contributions to the world of mathematics.
Working with Journals
From 2006 to 2017, Vivette Girault was part of the team that reviewed articles for a science magazine. This magazine is called Mathematics of Computation. It is published by the American Mathematical Society. Her role was to help decide which new math research papers were good enough to be published.
Special Recognition
In 2021, Vivette Girault received a very special award. She was chosen by two big math groups: the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She was named the 2021 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. This award honors women who have done amazing things in mathematics.
As part of this honor, she gave a special talk. The talk was called "From linear poroelasticity to nonlinear implicit elastic and related models." She received her award at the SIAM annual meeting. This meeting happened in Spokane, Washington, in July 2021.
External links
- Vivette Girault at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Vivette Girault's Profile [1] at MathSciNet
- Vivette Girault's Research [2] at ResearchGate
