Prof. Dr. Peter Benner
Head of research unit Computational Methods in Systems and Control Theory
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Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Sandtorstr. 1
39106 Magdeburg
Germany |
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Room S2.15 |
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+49 391 6110 451 |
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+49 391 6110 453 |
E-Mail: |
benner@mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de
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Current activities:
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January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2014: Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg.
- short CV (as of 2013-06-15),
Google scholar profile,
MathSciNet profile.
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Guest editor (with Daniel Kressner) of GAMM Mitteilungen, special issue on Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 6–129, 2013.
Read the Editorial.
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Guest editor of Advances in Computational
Mathematics, special issue related to Model Reduction of
Parametrized Systems, for details see the call for papers..
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Guest editor of Computational Optimization
and Applications, special issue related to European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCO), July 17-19, 2013, Chemnitz,
Germany.
- Recent Lectures:
- Recent (co-)Organisation of conferences, workshops, and summer schools:
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Member of the scientific committee of the
Joint ALAMA-ANLA Workshop, July 14-16, 2014, Barcelona, Spain.
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Co-Organizer (with Gitta Kutyniok) of the joint GAMM ANLA-MSIP Workshop Matrix Computations for Sparse Recovery, April 9-11, 2014, TU Berlin (Germany).
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Co-Organizer (with Martin Heß, Judith Schneider) of the workshop
Model
Reduction for Complex Dynamical Systems (MODRED 2013), December 11-13, 2013, Max Planck Institute Magdeburg
(Germany).
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Co-organizer (with Heike Faßbender, Lars Grasedyck, Daniel Kressner) of the 5th
Workshop on Matrix Equations and Tensor Techniques, October 10-11, 2013, EPF Lausanne (Switzerland).
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Member of the scientific committee of the
ENUMATH 2013, August 26-30, 2013, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Member of the organizing committee of the
European Conference on
Computational Optimization (EUCCO), July 17-19, 2013, Chemnitz, Germany.
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Co-organizer (with Albert Cohen, Mario Ohlberger, Karen Willcox) of the CIRM workshop Model Reduction and Approximation for Complex Systems,
June 10-14, 2013, CIRM Luminy, France.
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Co-organizer (with Wolfgang Hackbusch) of the GAMM Seminar Numerical Methods for Uncertainty Quantification,
January 21-23, 2013, MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig, Germany.
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Member of the organizing and scientific committees of the CIRM
workshop Structured Matrix Computations in Non Euclidean
Geometries: Algorithms and Applications,
October 8-12, 2012, CIRM Luminy, France.
- Member of the executive and scientific committees for the Second
International Workshop on Model Reduction for Parametrized
Systems (MoRePaS II), October 2-5, 2012, Schloss Reisensburg,
Günzburg, Germany.
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Member of the Scientific Committee for the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra (LA12),
June 18-22, 2012, Valencia, Spain.
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Workshop on Matrix Equations and Tensor Techniques,
November 21-22, 2011, RWTH Aachen, Germany.
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Summer School on Numerical Linear Algebra for
Dynamical and High-Dimensional Problems,
October 10-15, 2011, Trogir, Croatia.
Lectures (slides) and exercises are online!
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Member of the scientific committee of the 2nd summer school of the IMPRS Magdeburg:
Large Scale Networks in Engineering and Life Sciences
September 26-30, 2011, Max Planck Institute Magdeburg, Germany.
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Co-organizer of the Workshop of the GAMM Activity Group Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra
with special topic "Model Reduction", September 22-23 2011,
University of Bremen, Germany.
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Member of the local organizing committee of the 17th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society,
August 22-26, 2011, Braunschweig, Germany.
- Co-organizer of the minisymposia Numerical Linear Algebra Beyond Linear Systems and
Eigenvalues (2 parts, with Michele Benzi), and Structure-Preserving Model Reduction (3 parts,
with Athanasios C. Antoulas).
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Co-organizer of the 1-day Symposium on "Eigenvalues, Model Order Reduction and Trust Regions"
in celebration of Danny Sorensen's 65th birthday, June 11, 2011,
Silver Legacy Resort, Reno, NV, USA.
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Member of the scientific committee of the 1. Max Planck Industrial Workshop, May 6, 2011,
Max Planck Institute Magdeburg, Germany.
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Co-organizer of the Workshop on Model Order Reduction in Optimization
and Control with PDEs (MOR 2011), January 26-28, 2011,
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics,
Berlin, Germany.
- Lecturer at Gene Golub SIAM Summer School 2013 "Matrix
Functions and Matrix Equations", July 22 - August 2, 2013, Shanghai, China.
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GAMM representative for the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) for the period 2013 - 2016.
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Member of the council of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), 2012-2016.
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Since January 24, I am honorary professor at the
Faculty of Mathematics of the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg.
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Since January 1, 2011: Elected member of the Managing Board of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
(GAMM), re-elected for the period January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2016.
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Since September 1, 2010: director and scientifc member of the
Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex
Technical Systems in Magdeburg.
At the same time, my professorship for
Mathematics in Industry and Technology at Chemnitz
University of Technology has become part-time.
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Since October 1, 2010: coordinator of the research network
Model Reduction for Fast Simulation of new Semiconductor
Structures in Nano- and Microsystems-Technology (MoreSim4Nano)
within the program Mathematics for Innovations in Industry and
Services 2010-2013
(Mathematik für Innovationen in Industrie und Dienstleistungen
2010-2013)
funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF).
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July 1, 2007 - December 31, 2011: coordinator of the research network
System Reduction for Nanoscale IC Design (SyreNe) within
the program Mathematics for Innovations in Industry and Services 2007-2010
(Mathematik für Innovationen in Industrie und Dienstleistungen 2007-2010)
funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(BMBF).
A short overview of the SyreNe project
can be found in the ECMI Newsletter 45, March 2009.
A dissemination workshop Model Reduction for Complex Dynamical
Systems took place at TU Berlin, December 2-3, 2010.
The slides of the talks are online!
A dissemination
minisymposium was organized at ECMI 2010.
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A report on the completed
EU project O-MOORE-NICE! appeared in ECMI
Newsletter 47, March 2010, pp. 17-20.
- January 1, 2009 - March 20, 2013: chair of the
GAMM Activity Group Applied and Numerical Linear
Algebra.
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A short description The GAMM Activity Group Applied and
Numerical Linear Algebra can be found in
IMAGE (Bulletin of the ILAS), Vol.
43, pp. 25-26, 2009.
- Chair of Niconet e.V., founded July 25, 2006 in order to further the
development of the software library SLICOT.
- Associate editor of SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
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Member of the editorial board of Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications
- Other editorial work
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Guest editor of BIT Numerical Mathematics, special issue related to CIRM
workshop Structured Matrix Computations in Non Euclidean
Geometries: Algorithms and Applications,
October 8-12, 2012, CIRM Luminy, France. Deadline was February 28, 2013!
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LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 436, Issue 8, pp. 2717-2962 (15 April 2012)
Special issue dedicated to Danny C. Sorensen's 65th birthday.
Edited by Peter Benner, Mark Embree, C.T. Kelley and Richard B. Lehoucq.
Preface.
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Model Reduction for Circuit
Simulation. (Proceedings of a workshop held at University of Hamburg, October 30-31, 2008.)
Edited by Peter Benner, Michael Hinze und Jan ter Maten.
Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Vol. 74,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, 2011.
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Special issue of NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA WITH APPLICATIONS on
Large-Scale Matrix Equations of Special Type,
vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 747-886, November 2008.
More info: contents,
BibTeX entries.
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LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ITS APPLICATIONS
Volume 415, Issues 2-3, Pages 231-578 (1 June 2006)
Special Issue on Order Reduction of Large-Scale Systems
Edited by Peter Benner, Roland W. Freund, Danny C. Sorensen and
Andras Varga
Preface,
BibTeX entries for
the issue and individual articles.
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Dimension Reduction of
Large-Scale Systems
edited by Peter Benner, Volker Mehrmann, and Danny C. Sorensen.
Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 45,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, June 2005, xii+395 p.,
ISBN: 3-540-24545-6.
More info (preface, table of contents, etc.)
BibTeX entries for the
book and the individual chapters.
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2003-2008: Member of the editorial board of SIAM book series Fundamentals of Algorithms
- 2004-2010: Member of the editorial board of Computing Letters