Anna-Karin Tornberg

I am a professor in Numerical Analysis at the math department of KTH. The office address is Lindstedsvägen 25, room number 3534.

Research Interests

My research mainly concerns the development of numerical methods for the solution of PDEs. One current specific focus area is boundary integral methods for fluid flows involving particles and drops, and with that both development and analysis of important components such as fast methods to accelerate the computations and numerical quadrature techniques for evaluation of singular and nearly singular integrals.

I am active within the focus area Micro and Complex flows of the Linne FLOW Centre at KTH. This working group is joining researchers at KTH performing theoretical, numerical and experimental work within this exciting field. Our research strategy can be found here.

I am active within the Swedish e-Science Research Center (SeRC) through the core community in Numerical Analysis. In 2012, we initiated a new project in collaboration with the Molecular Simulation community. The project concerns fast methods for electrostatic calculation in molecular dynamic simulations.

Education and background

PhD in Numerical Analysis, KTH (2000).
Postdoc (forskarassistent), NADA, KTH (2000-2001).
Postdoc, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (NYU) (2001-2003).
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU (2003).
Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Courant Institute (2007).
Docent in Numerical Analysis at KTH (2007).
Full professor in Numerical Analysis at KTH (2012).

Recent major invited lectures

Invited speaker 30 year celebration of Acta Numerica, Bedlewo, Poland, June 2022.

Invited speaker European Congress of Mathematics (ECM), June 20-26, 2021. (Digital, postponed from 2020)

Plenary speaker ICOSAHOM (International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods), July 12-16, 2021 (Digital, postponed from 2020).

Plenary speaker ECMI (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry), April 13-15, 2021.(Digital, postponed from 2020)

Plenary speaker International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Valencia, Spain, July 15-19, 2019.

Invited speaker International Congress of Mathematics (ICM), Rio de Janeiro, Aug 1-9, 2018.

Plenary speaker SciCADE, University of Bath, September 11-15, 2017.

Plenary speaker SIAM Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, July 10-14, 2017.

Invited speaker Nordic Congress of Mathematics, Stockholm, March 16-20, 2016.

Distinctions/Awards:

Elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Enigineering Sciences (IVA), 2015.Elected to section VII. Seewww.iva.se.

Göran Gustafsson Prize in Mathematics, 2014.
The Göran Gustafsson prize is given out annually within five subject fields. The first women to receive the prize in Mathematics.
Press relaease from KVA. For the full list of recipients, click here.

Elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, class of Mathematics, Dec. 2010.
The academy have approximately 420 Swedish and 175 foreign members, divided into ten scientific disciplines, called classes. See www.kva.se.

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2006.
"The Sloan awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science within North America".

Research fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), June 2005.
"Awards given to exceptionally gifted researches to carry out their research in Sweden".

Carl-Axel Fröberg prize, 2004.
Awarded by the journal BIT Numerical Mathematics, for the paper: Multi-Dimensional Quadrature of Singular and Discontinuous Functions. (42:644-669, 2002).

Leslie Fox First Prize in Numerical Analysis, 2001.
This award is an international prize given annually to a young numerical analyst.

Werthen fellowship, 2001.
A Swedish prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).

President's fellowship (excellenstjänst) awarded at KTH (1997-2000).
Awarded to students with "an excellent record and strong potential for PhD studies".

Service at KTH:

Vice chair of the department of Mathematics, KTH, since January 2020.

Head of the division of Numerical Analysis (part of the Mathematics department), KTH,  2011--2023.

Coordinator of RAE panel (Research Assessment exercise) 2020-2021 for Mathematics and Engineering Mechanics.

Member of KTH University Board, May 2013- April 2020.

Member of KTH Faculty Council, April 2015- June 2019.

Service to the community:

Member of the program committee (PC) for International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2022. Citation from https://www.mathunion.org/icm-2022:Membership in the PC was not made public until the Opening Ceremony of the ICM 2022. The reason for this secrecy was to protect the members of the committee from personal or political pressure from outside. Invitations to lecture at the International Congresses carry such high prestige that individuals or groups have always made efforts to influence the decisions of the committee.

Associate editor forAdvances in Computational Mathematics, 2020--.
Associate editor for Journal of Computational Physics, 2009-2017.
Associate editor for BIT Numerical Mathematics, 2003 - 2015.
Board member of Institute Mittag-Leffler, since 2012.
Member Swedish National Committee for Mathematics, 2012-2017.
Editor, Mathematics in Industry book series, Springer Verlag.