Peter Oswald was born in Dresden, Germany. He earned his
undergraduate degree and began his graduate studies at Odessa State
University in Ukraine/Soviet Union. He completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics
in 1978 at Moscow Institute of Electronical Engineering. In 1982, he
received his Dr. Sci. Habilitation from the University of Jena for his
work on spline approximation and function spaces.
Professor Oswald has had a distinguished career solving major problems
relating to numerical analysis, approximation theory, and computational
harmonic analysis. During the last decade, Professor Oswald's research
emphasis has been mainly in numerical methods for solving PDE's: finite
element and multigrid. He has a definitive monograph on multilevel
methods and has several deep results on preconditioning the stiffness
matrix in multilevel solvers.
Prior to his return in 2004 to academics at the International University
of Bremen, Professor Oswald was a member of the technical staff at Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. Murray Hill, New Jersey. He currently
serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Approximation Theory,
Constructive Approximation, and Applied and Computational Harmonic
Analysis.
Personal Homepage:
www.faculty.iu-bremen.de/posawald
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