James Demmel

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James Demmel

James Weldon Demmel (born October 19, 1955 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American mathematician who specializes in numerical mathematics .

Life

Demmel received his bachelor's degree from Caltech in 1975 and received his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1983 with William Kahan ( A numerical analyst's Jordan canonical form ). From 1983 he was in the Faculty of Computer Science at New York University and from 1990 professor in Berkeley, where he is Carl Dehmel Distinguished Professor from 2004 .

He is known for his contribution to LAPACK and ScaLAPACK, software libraries for numerical linear algebra for high-performance computers. In 1999 his multigrid FEM program Prometheus (written with Mark Adams and Robert Taylor) won the Carl Benz Award and in 2004 the Gordon Bell Prize. In 1993 he received the James H. Wilkinson Prize , the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Leslie Fox Prize of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in 1986, the Sidney Fernbach Award of the IEEE in 2010 and the Paris Kanellakis Prize in 2014 . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1999), the National Academy of Sciences (2011) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing with his lecture The complexity of accurate floating point calculation .

He is married to Katherine Yelick, who is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Berkeley.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates of birth according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Professor James Demmel. Retrieved February 5, 2020 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Demmel, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demmel, James Weldon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania