Chapter 13: Françoise Chatelin: Qualitative Computing

Françoise Chatelin http://www.cerfacs.fr/~chatelin is the Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University Toulouse 1 — Capitole and Head of the Qualitative Computing group at the Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (Cerfacs) in Toulouse, France. Her expertise includes many areas, from spectral theory for linear operators in Banach spaces to finite precision computation of very large matrix eigenproblems. Professor Chatelin has supervised 31 PhD theses and has authored five books; the first four are now classic references. A graduate from L'École Normale Supérieure Normale (Paris), Professor Chatelin taught at the Universities Grenoble 2 — Pierre Mendes-France and Paris 9 — Dauphine before moving to Toulouse. She was a visiting researcher at Berkeley and Stanford Universities, IBM San Jose (Ca) and Yorktown Heights (NY). For almost a decade (from 1984 to 1993) she was a scientific manager (in charge of intensive computing) at the Centre Scientifique IBM — France in Paris and the Laboratoire Central de Recherches Thales near Paris. Her book Valeurs Propres de Matrices (Masson, Paris, 1988) has received the IBM — France prize for “Meilleure publication scientifique et technique 1988”…