Mark Embree

Mark Embree is professor of computational and applied mathematics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Until 2013, he was a professor of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Mark Embree
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Oxford Virginia Tech
Known for	Krylov subspace methods, non-normal operators and spectral perturbation theory, Toeplitz matrices, random matrices, and damped wave operators
Awards	Man of the Year and Outstanding Student in the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech (1996) Rhodes Scholar (1996)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Rice University
Doctoral advisor	Andrew Wathen
Website	http://www.math.vt.edu/people/embree/

Mark Embree was awarded Man of the Year and Outstanding Student in the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech in 1996. He was also a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he completed his doctorate.

Early life

Mark Embree attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.^[1]

Research

His main research interests are Krylov subspace methods, non-normal operators and spectral perturbation theory, Toeplitz matrices, random matrices, and damped wave operators.

Books

Dr Mark Embree wrote a book with Lloyd N. Trefethen titled Spectra and Pseudospectra: The Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and Operators.

See also

• Embree–Trefethen constant

External links

• Dr. Embree's Virginia Tech Homepage
• Dr. Embree's Rice Homepage
• Dr. Embree's Mathematical Genealogy
• Spectra and Pseudospectra: The Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and Operators