Ilse Clara Franziska Ipsen is a German-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at

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. She was formerly associate director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, a joint venture of North Carolina State and other nearby universities..

Education and career

Ipsen earned a diploma from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology in 1977, and completed her doctorate from the

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in 1983 under the supervision of Don Heller. Her dissertation was ''Systolic Arrays for VLSI'' and concerned

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hardware implementations of the

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architecture. After working at

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for ten years beginning in 1983, she joined North Carolina State University in 1993. Ipsen is Founding Editor in Chief of the SIAM Book Series on Data Science.

Book

Ipsen is the author of the book ''Numerical Matrix Analysis: Linear Systems and Least Squares'' (

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, 2009), an introductory graduate textbook on the

sensitivity analysis Sensitivity analysis is the study of how the uncertainty in the output of a mathematical model or system (numerical or otherwise) can be divided and allocated to different sources of uncertainty in its inputs. This involves estimating sensitivity ...

of computations in

linear algebra Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as :a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n=b, linear maps such as :(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \mapsto a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n, and their representations in vector spaces and through matrix (mathemat ...

Recognition

In 2011, she became a

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of the

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"for contributions to numerical linear algebra, perturbation theory, and applications." She was elected as a fellow of the

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in 2018.

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