Elena Vázquez Cendón

María Elena Vázquez Cendón is a Spanish applied mathematician specializing in the use of differential equations to model waves and shallow water, and in the use of finite volume methods and upwind schemes to compute numerical solutions to these differential equations and other hyperbolic partial differential equations.[1] She is a professor of applied mathematics and dean of mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela.[2]

Education and career

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Vázquez was born in Ourense in 1966. After studying mathematics at the I.E.S As Lagoas in Ourense, she did her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela,[3] completing a Ph.D. in 1994 with the dissertation Estudio de esquemas descentrados para su aplicación a las leyes de conservación con términos fuente supervised by Alfredo Bermúdez de Castro.[4]

She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela,[5] where she has worked since 1989; additionally, she became a research associate for the Technical Institute for Industrial Mathematics in 2013.[1] At the University of Santiago de Compostela, she has been dean of the faculty of mathematics since 2017, and was re-elected as dean in 2021.[2] She has also served as vice rector of the university.[3]

Books

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Vázquez is the author of Solving Hyperbolic Equations with Finite Volume Methods, Springer, 2015 (translated from a Spanish edition published in 2008).[6] She is the editor of Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations (CRC Press, 2011).

References

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  1. ^ a b "María Elena Vázquez Cendón", XXIV CEDYA / XIV CMA, speaker profile, archived from the original on 2023-03-14, retrieved 2021-09-12
  2. ^ a b "Elena Vázquez Cendón, reelegida decana de la Facultade de Matemáticas" [Elena Vázquez Cendón re-elected dean of the faculty of mathematics], La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish), 30 April 2021
  3. ^ a b Gil Batalla, Lucía; Méndez García, Lara, "Entrevista a Elena Vázquez Cendón, decana de la facultad de matemáticas de la USC" [Interview with Elena Vázquez Cendón, dean of the faculty of mathematics of USC], SCQ+ 2021 (in Spanish), retrieved 2021-09-12
  4. ^ Elena Vázquez Cendón at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ "Maria Elena Vazquez Cendon", Directory, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, retrieved 2021-09-12
  6. ^ Reviews of Solving Hyperbolic Equations with Finite Volume Methods: Raul Borsche, MR3307754; Donna Calhoun, SIAM Review, doi:10.1137/17N97429X; Calin Ioan Gheorghiu, Zbl 1319.65086
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