Marsha Berger | |
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Born | 1953 |
Alma mater | Binghamton University Stanford University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Numerical analysis, Computational fluid dynamics and Parallel computing |
Institutions | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. |
Thesis | Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations (1982) |
Marsha J. Berger (born 1953) is an American computer scientist. Her areas of research include numerical analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and high-performance parallel computing. She is a Silver Professor (emeritus) of Computer Science and Mathematics in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.[1] She is Group Leader of Modeling and Simulation in the Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute.[2]
Berger was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for developing adaptive mesh refinement algorithms and software that have advanced engineering applications, especially the analysis of aircraft and spacecraft.[3]