Gerd Grubb receives a Swedish honorary doctorate
Lund University promotes Gerd Grubb to honorary doctor and holds a seminar in her honor.
Professor emeritus Gerd Grubb has for half a century been affiliated with the University of Copenhagen. She was with her doctoral thesis in 1975 the first Danish woman with a doctorate in mathematics. As late as 1994, she was the only female professor at the Faculty of Science.
Gerd Grubb will at a ceremony on the 27'th of May 2016 in the Cathedral of Lund be promoted to Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, by the Faculty of Science, Lund University. She will give a lecture for the faculty in Lund the day before.
On the 30th and the 31st of May 2016 Lund University will host a special Øresund Seminar to celebrate the appointment, where Gerd Grubb herself is one of the invited speakers.
Gerd Grubb retired from her position at the Department of Mathematical Sciences in 2012, but she has since then continued her career as an extremely active researcher in the theory of partial differential equations. Among her latest works can be mentioned an article from 2015 in the highly respected journal Advances in Mathematics, in which she develops a theory for pseudo-differential operators, originally begun by the world famous Swedish mathematician Lars Hörmander.
In this context it is worth noting that it is through Hörmander’s work Lund University has become an international center for the mathematical field in which Gerd Grubb's research is concentrated. The promotion to honorary doctor by Hörmander’s university is a very distinguished, but also well-deserved recognition of Gerd Grubb's work.
Read more about Gerd Grubbs research and teaching.
See Gerd Grubbs website.