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
editRivara 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
editIn 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