Margaret H. Wright

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Margaret Hagen Wright (born February 18, 1944 in Hanford , California ) is an American mathematician . She dealt with optimization , scientific computing and numerical linear algebra.

Life

Wright grew up in Hanford and Tucson and studied computer science at Stanford University . There she did her doctorate in 1976 after a few years as a programmer at GTE Sylvania with the dissertation Numerical methods for nonlinearly constrained optimization . Her PhD supervisor was Gene H. Golub . She then did further research on optimization at Stanford in the Systems Optimization Laboratory of the Faculty of Operations Research before moving to Bell Laboratories in 1988 , where she became a Distinguished Member in 1993 and a Bell Lab Fellow in 1997. From 1997 to 2001 she was in charge of research in Scientific Computing. In 2001 she became a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University .

From 1995 to 1996 she was President of SIAM . She was accepted into the National Academy of Engineering in 1997, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, and the National Academy of Sciences in 2005 . In 2002 she received the Award for Distinguished Public Service from the American Mathematical Society , of which she is a fellow. From 1994 to 1998 she was on the Advisory Committee for Mathematics and Physics of the National Science Foundation , of which 1997/98 as its director. She is on the MSRI Scientific Council . She is editor of SIAM Review and co-editor of several other SIAM journals. In 2000 she gave the Noether Lecture , in 2019 she gave the John von Neumann Lecture .

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SURNAME Wright, Margaret H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wright, Margaret Hagen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanford (California)