Hinke Osinga | |
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| Born | (1969-12-25)25 December 1969 (age 55) Dokkum, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Known for | Mathematical art |
| Spouse | Bernd Krauskopf |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Groningen |
| Thesis | Computing Invariant Manifolds: Variations on the Graph Transform (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Henk Broer Gert Vegter |
| Other advisors | Ruth F. Curtain Floris Takens |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Exeter University of Bristol University of Auckland |
Hinke Maria Osinga (born 25 December 1969)[1] is a Dutch mathematician and an expert indynamical systems. She works as a professor ofapplied mathematics at theUniversity of Auckland in New Zealand.[2] As well as for her research, she is known as a creator ofmathematical art.
Osinga earned a master's degree in 1991 and a Ph.D. in 1996 from theUniversity of Groningen.[2] Her doctoral dissertation, jointly supervised bydynamical systems theoristHenk Broer andcomputational geometer Gert Vegter, was on the computation ofinvariant manifolds.[3]
After postdoctoral studies atThe Geometry Center and theCalifornia Institute of Technology, and a short-term lecturership at theUniversity of Exeter, she became a lecturer at theUniversity of Bristol in 2001, and was promoted to reader and professor there in 2005 and 2011, respectively. She moved to Auckland in 2011,[2] becoming the first female mathematics professor at Auckland and the second in New Zealand.[4]
In 2004 Osinga created acrocheted visualization of the Lorenz manifold, an invariant manifold for theLorenz system, and published the crochet pattern for her work with her husbandBernd Krauskopf; the resultingmathematical textile artwork involved over 25,000 crochet stitches, and measured nearly a meter across.[5][6] Osinga and Krauskopf later collaborated with artist Benjamin Storch on a stainless steel sculpture that provides another interpretation of the same mathematical system.[7]
Osinga was aninvited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014, speaking on "Mathematics in Science and Technology".[8] In 2015 she was elected as afellow of theSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics "for contributions to theory and computational methods for dynamical systems."[9] In October 2016 she became the first female mathematician elected to the Royal Society of New Zealand.[10][11] She was awarded theAitken Lectureship in 2017.[12]
In 2017 Osinga was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[13] The same year she received the Moyal Medal from Macquarie University.[14]
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