María Cecilia Rivara
María Cecilia Rivara Zúñiga is a Chilean computer scientist known for her research in mesh refinement for the finite element method. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Chile, where she was the first woman to earn an engineer's degree in mathematics.
Education and career
[edit]Rivara earned an engineer's degree in mathematics in 1973 from the University of Chile,[1] the first woman to do so.[2] She went to the Catholic University of Louvaine in Belgium for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1980 and completing her Ph.D. in 1984,[1] supervised by Robert Piessens.[3] She is a full professor at the University of Chile.[1]
Research
[edit]In the study of mesh refinement, subdividing selected triangles of a triangular finite element mesh by bisecting their longest edges is also known as Rivara refinement, after Rivara's pioneering work on this method.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "María Cecilia Rivara Zúñiga", Portafolio académico, University of Chile, retrieved 2024-09-04
- ^ Aguilera, Cynthia, Mujeres en Ingeniería y Ciencias, Facultad de Cs. Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile (PDF), retrieved 2024-09-04
- ^ María Cecilia Rivara at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ O'Rourke, Joseph (September 1994), "Computational geometry column 23", ACM SIGACT News, 25 (3), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): 24–27, doi:10.1145/193820.193831
- ^ Hatipoglu, Bilal; Ozturan, Can (2015), "Parallel triangular mesh refinement by longest edge bisection", SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 37 (5): C574–C588, doi:10.1137/140973840, MR 3414472
External links
[edit]- María Cecilia Rivara publications indexed by Google Scholar
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