Prof. Petter Bjorstad

Short Biography


Professor Petter Bjorstad is one of the leading figures in Scientific Computing in the world. He is Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Director of Parallab, a laboratory for parallel computing.

He is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, and serves on several other editorial boards. He has coauthored the first monograph on domain decomposition, "Domain Decomposition: Parallel Multilevel Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations", and has edited five other books.

Besides serving on numerous scientific and program committees for international conferences, he has also served as president of The Nordic Society for Applied Mathematics and the SIAM Nordic Section.


Personal Homepage: www.ii.uib.no/~petter


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