Dr.ir. Margot Gerritsen

Name: Margot Gerritsen

Affiliation: Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University

Biography: Margot Gerritsen was born and raised in the Netherlands, in the beautiful province of Zeeland and the village of Kloetinge, and left the country in 1990 in search for hillier and sunnier places after completion of her MSc  in Applied Mathematics. After spending some time in various places in Northern Europe, Colorado and Georgia, she ended up at Stanford for her Ph.D., where she started exactly 25 years go. After five years on campus, she spent nearly five years in beautiful New Zealand as a faculty member of the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland after which she returned to Stanford in 2001.

She is now a professor in ERE, the Department of Energy Resources Engineering at Stanford, interested in computer simulation and mathematical analysis of engineering processes, and director of ICME, the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (icme.stanford.edu). She is  also the Senior Associate Dean for Education Initiatives in the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (earth.stanford.edu).

Title of talk: DCSE West: Computational Science & Engineering at Stanford

Abstract: After my MS degree in Applied Mathematics at TU Delft, I moved to the United States to pursue her PhD  (and, admittedly, to look for sunnier and hillier places). After a few adventures I landed at Stanford University. Since 2010 I've had the pleasure to direct ICME, the Institute of Computational & Mathematical Engineering at Stanford. In the title I jokingly refer to it as "DCSE West" because the Dutchies have had (a little) impact on it, so I think we have a (small) claim.

Stanford has a long tradition in CSE dating from the 60s when George Forsythe and Gene Golub founded the Numerical Analysis Group, which later developed into ICME. I look forward to sharing the ICME story with you, as well as best practices. I will also muse on the current, and future, role of CSE in society and the outstanding (in both senses of the word!) problems in this area.