Modelling with Differential Equations

Instructor

Marleen Keijzer

Dr.

Delft University of Technology

Marleen Keijzer is assistant professor at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Delft University of Technology. She is responsible for a first-year course: Mathematical Modeling. Marleen loves teaching and gives many other courses and practicals at the university in differential equations, calculus, linear algebra, numerical analysis and presentation skills.

Marleen has supervised many students in their BSc, MSc and PhD research projects in applied mathematics. Recently, many of these projects were on radiotherapy treatment planning in cooperation with the Erasmus Medical Center Cancer Institute in Rotterdam.

Her own PhD project was on calculations of how laser light distributes in human tissues. For that project, she worked in four places: the Erasmus Medical Center Cancer Institute in Rotterdam, the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, and finally the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics.

Instructor

Dennis den Ouden-van der Horst

Lecturer, Mathematics

TU Delft

Dennis is a lecturer in mathematics at the Delft University of Technology. He obtained his PhD on the subject of mathematical modeling of the microstructure of steel.

Instructor

Iris Smit

Dr.

Delft University of Technology

Iris is a lecturer in mathematics at the Delft University of Technology. After graduating in Los Angeles, she obtained her PhD at the University of Amsterdam, doing research in complex dynamics. She did a postdoc in Trondheim, Norway.
Iris is a driven and experienced lecturer, providing courses in calculus and linear algebra to engineers of all fields. She specializes in creating and programming of formative and summative exercises.

Instructor

Kees Vuik

Professor, Numerical Analysis

Delft Universtity of Technology

Cornelis Vuik has been professor in Numerical Analysis at Delft University of Technology since 2007. He is responsible for lectures, projects and final thesis work related to Numerical Analysis and High Performance Computing. Cornelis is coordinator of the double degree international Master Computer Simulations for Science and Engineering (COSSE) In his group research is done in Discretization of Partial Differential Equations, Iterative Methods and High Performance Computing. He is (co)author of about 200 publications (journals, book chapters, conference papers)

Cornelis has obtained his MSc from Delft University of Technology. After a short stay at Philips Research Laboratories he has done a PhD at Utrecht University. During this time he worked on numerical solution, existence and uniqueness of Moving Boundary (Stefan) Problems. In 1988 he joined Delft University of Technology and became an expert on iterative solution methods combined with high performance computing.

Cornelis teaches various courses a year. One of the most important ones is Modelling for the first year Applied Mathematics Bachelor curriculum. His many collaborations with industries and research institutes helps him to have many interesting examples that are used in this course.