Vivette Girault (born 1943)[1] is a French mathematician, whose research expertise lies in numerical analysis, finite element methods and computational fluid dynamics.
[2] Girault, was born in Nice, France, and attended high school in Caracas, Venezuela, received her bachelor's degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
[3] Girault was named professor emerita at the Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire Jacque-Louis Lions, Paris, France.
[4] Girault was selected by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to be the 2021 AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer.
She will deliver the lecture "From linear poroelasticity to nonlinear implicit elastic and related models" and receive the accompanying award at the SIAM annual meeting in Spokane, Washington in July 2021.