Krystyna Ziêtak: about me


Work experience PhD student (2008): Beata Laszkiewicz
Masters' theses (1973--2011)

Ph.D. Thesis: "Rational functions in the alternating direction method"
(University of Wroclaw, 1972)
Habilitation: "Approximation of matrices and matrix equations"
(University of Wroclaw, 1990)

Research area: numerical linear algebra

Selected topics from the publications:
- optimal rational function used in the ADI method,
- rounding error analysis,
- double Chebyshev series for hypergeometric functions of two variables,
- approximation of matrices,
- overdetermined matrix equations,
- approximate generalized inverses,
- convex analysis in matrix spaces endowed with unitarily invariant norms,
- strict spectral approximation of matrices,
- zero-trace matrices,
- geometrical properties of solutions of overdetermined linear systems,
- polar decomposition of matrix - applications and algorithms,
- approximation by matrices with restricted spectra,
- algorithms for Zoltarev and ADI coefficients,
- algorithms for matrix sector function (Newton and Halley iterations, Schur-type methods)
- smoothing filters,
- Pade approximation,
- hypergeometric function,
- reciprocal of power series,
- Pade families of iterations for matrix sign and sector functions, and matrix pth roots

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