Irena Lasiecka

Partial Differential Equations International Federal Information Processes Irena Lasiecka (Polish pronunciation: [iˈrɛna laˈɕɛt͡ska]; born February 4, 1948) is a Polish-American mathematician, a Distinguished University Professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at the University of Memphis.

She studied math for many years at the University of Warsaw, where she earned her Master of Science degree in applied mathematics in 1972.

[4] After receiving her PhD, Lasiecka started to transfer her knowledge of Applied Mathematics to others in addition to more personal studying and research.

She has written extensively about this topic in her collaborative work Optimization Methods in Partial Differential Equations.

Control theory, however, injects an active mode of synthesis in the study of differential equations: it seeks to influence their dynamical evolution by selecting and synthesizing suitable data (input functions or control functions) from within a preassigned class, to achieve a predetermined desired outcome or performance.

In Mathematical Control Theory of Coupled PDEs, Lasiecka studies this concept through waves and hyperbolic models.

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