Daniel B. SzyldDepartment of MathematicsCollege of Science and Technology Temple University (038-16) 1805 N Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19122-6094, USA Phone +1 215 204 7288 FAX +1 215 204 6433 szyld AT temple DOT edu |
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My interest is Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in general,
and Numerical and Applied Linear Algebra in particular.
I am currently the
President of the
International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) (2020-2026),
and a member of the Board of Trustees of
The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM)
(2024-2028).
Previously, I was
Vice-President (at large) of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (2014-2015).
I am a member of the Editorial Boards of:
Advanced Studies:
Euro-Tbilisi Mathematical Journal (published by the Tiblisi Centre for Mathematical Sciences),
the
Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA) (Co-editor-in-Chief, 2005-2013)
the
Journal of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory (published by the Romanian Academy).
Linear Algebra and its Applications,
Mathematics of Computation,
and
Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications.
Previously, I serve on the boards of
The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (1995-2023),
the
SeMA Journal, and the
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Application
(2003-2020, Editor-in-Chief, 2015-2020).
Link to my Wikipedia page.
Link to my profile
in the Latinxs and Hispanics in
Mathematical Sciences website.
Seminars at Temple University.
Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing at Temple University.
Mathematical Contest in Modeling for undergraduates at Temple.
Upcoming conferences and events of note:
International Conference on numerical mathematics and scientific computing on the 65th Anniversary of the journal BIT,
14-16 January 2025, Upsala, Sweden.
Mathematical Modeling with Applications (M2A25),
University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakesh,
Morocco,
18-20 February 2025.
Annual Sparse Days meeting at CERFACS, Toulouse, France, 2-3 June 2025.
XXII Householder Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra, 9-13 June 2025, Cornell University.
26th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS2025),
23-27 June 2025, Kaohsiung, in the South of the island of Taiwan.
Applied Linear Algebra 2025 in honor of Zhong-Zhi Bai,
3-5 July 2025, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2025,
21-25 July 2025, Miami.
27th Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS2026),
18-22 May 2026, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virgina.
International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2026), 22-29 July 2026, Philadelphia.
ICIAM 2027,
The 11th International Conference for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
12-16 July 2027, The Hague, The Netherlands.
A link to the Thesis of Gene H. Golub: The Use of Chebychev Matrix
Polynomials in the Iterative Solution of Linear Equations Compared to the Method of Successive Relaxation,
Univeristy of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), March 1959 (139 pages).
An Interview
I gave, which appeared in IMAGE, The Bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society, November 2018.
It was conducted by Froilán Dopico.
Some math-related opinions of note:
Maths spying: The quandary of working for the spooks, from
The New Scientist, April 2014.
Mathematicians and Ethical Engagement, from SIAM News, November 2018.
The Importance of Ethics in Mathematics by Maurice Chiodo and Toby Clifton, Nesletter of the London Mathematical Society, September 2019, pp. 22-26.
Why are there so few Black Professors in our Universities? (in French) by Ivar Ekeland, Gazette des Mathematiciens, from the French Mathematical Society, April 2021.
A letter to the editor of the New York Times
I wrote about the mathematics of voting. 16 October 2016.
A Research Monogrpah
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Isaac Klapper, Daniel B. Szyld,
and Kai Zhao,
Metabolic Networks, Elementary Flux Modes, and Polyhedral Cones, SIAM, 2021. Bibtex. |
My latest research papers are
Andrew J. Higgins,
Daniel B. Szyld,
Erik G. Boman,
and Ichitaro Yamazaki,
Analysis of Randomized Householder-Cholesky QR Factorization with Multisketching,
Research Report 23-09-11, September 2023.
Revised August 2024. Bibtex.
Also available at the arXiv:2309.05868.
Faycal Chaouqui and Daniel B. Szyld,
On optimal coarse space correction for Restricted and Optimized Additive Schwarz Method,
Research Report 20-09-18, September 2020. Bibtex.
Micheael L. Parks,
Kirk M. Soodhalter, and Daniel B. Szyld,
A block Recycled GMRES method with investigations into aspects of solver performance,
Research Report 16-04-04, April 2016. Revised August 2017.
Available also at the arxiv.
Bibtex Supplementary Materials.
Software for block Recycled GMRES is available at Zenodo.
PUBLISHED IN 2024:
Nicole Spillane
and Daniel B. Szyld,
New Convergence Analysis of
GMRES with Weighted Norms, Preconditioning and Deflation,
Leading to a New Deflation Space,
Research Report 23-11-06, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, December 2023. Revised May 2024.
To appear in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.
Available also at the ArXiv and
at HAL.
Bibtex.
Ichitaro Yamazaki,
Andrew J. Higgins,
Erik G. Boman,
and
Daniel B. Szyld,
Two-Stage Block Orthogonalization to Improve Performance of $s$-step GMRES,
Research Report 24-02-22, February 2024.
Proceedings of IPDPS 2024, the 38th IEEE International Parallel and
Distributing Processing Symposium,
held in San Francisco, 27--31 May. 2024, pages 26-38.
Available also at the arxiv.
Bibtex.
Isaac Klapper, Daniel B. Szyld,
Xinli Yu,
Karsten Zengler,
Tianyu Zhang,
and Cristal Zúñiga,
A domain decomposition method for solution of a PDE-constrained generalized
Nash equilibrium model of biofilm community metabolism,
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, vol. 84 (2024) pp. 97-113.
Bibtex.
Supplemental Material.
Faycal Chaouqui and Daniel B. Szyld,
A Two-Level Restricted Additive Schwarz Method For Asynchronous Computations.
In
Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XXVII,
Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering,
Zdeněk Dostál, Axel Klawonn, Tomáš Kozubek, Ulrich Langer, Luca F. Pavarino, Jakub Šístek, Olof B. Widlund (Eds.), Springer,
2024, pp. 109-116.
Bibtex.
Martin J. Gander,
Lahcen Laayouni, and Daniel B. Szyld,
An alternating approach for optimizing
transmission conditions in algebraic Schwarz methods.
In Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XXVII,
Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering,
Zdeněk Dostál, Axel Klawonn, Tomáš Kozubek, Ulrich Langer, Luca F. Pavarino, Jakub Šístek, Olof B. Widlund (Eds.), Springer,
Springer, 2024, pp. 343-350.
Bibtex.
PUBLISHED IN 2023:
Siobhán Correnty,
Elias Jarlebring, and Daniel B. Szyld,
Preconditioned Chebyshev BiCG for parameterized linear systems,
Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA), vol. 58 (2023) pp. 629-656.
Bibtex.
Jian Du, Bindi M. Nagda,
Owen L. Lewis, Daniel B. Szyld, and
Aaron L. Fogelson,
A Computational Framework for the Swelling Dynamics of Mucin-like Polyelectrolyte Gels.
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, vol. 313 (2023) article 104989.
Bibtex.
Christian E. Schaerer,
Daniel B. Szyld, and Pedro J. Torres,
A posteriori superlinear convergence bounds for block conjugate gradient,
Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA), vol. 58 (2023) pp. 115-135.
Online 22 December 2022.
Bibtex.
Andreas Frommer,
and Daniel B. Szyld,
On the convergence of randomized
and greedy relaxation schemes for solving nonsingular linear systems of equations.
Numerical Algorithms, vol. 92 (2023) pp. 639-664.
Bibtex.
Erik G. Boman,
Andrew J. Higgins,
and Daniel B. Szyld,
Optimal Size of the Block in Block GMRES on GPUs: Computational Model and Experiments.
Numerical Algorithms, vol. 92 (2023) pp. 119-147.
Bibtex.
Faycal Chaouqui,
Edmond Chow,
and Daniel B. Szyld,
Asynchronous domain decomposition methods for nonlinear PDEs,
Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA), vol. 58 (2023) pp. 22-42.
Bibtex.
Work on most of these papers was supported in part by the Department of Energy (Office of Science), and by the National Science Foundation.
Other Papers:
Chronological .
By subject.
See also the collections I co-edited:
Proceedings of Seminar on Web Information Retrieval and Other Applications of Markov Chain Modeling (Dagsuhl, 2007)
75 Years of Mathematics of Computation (AMS, 2020)
Recorded Lectures:
Matrices with Perron-Frobenius Properties, given at the Workshop on Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Nonnnegative Matrices at the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 27-29 July 2012.
Asynchronous Optimized Schwarz Methods for the solution of PDEs, given at Cornell on 6 November 2015.
Complete CV (Temple format) or shorter CV. Google scholar profile.
Links to former students and postdocs
Honors, Awards, and Recognitions.
Commemorative medal of the School of Mathematics and Physics,
Charles University of Prague, at the
Czech-U.S. Workshop on Iterative Methods and Parallel
Computing, June 16-21, 1997, Milovy, Czech Republic.
Featured
in the book Hall of Fame containing
linocuts portraits
of scientists in
the field of scientific computing made by
Henk van der Vorst.
Published by
SARA, the High Performance Computing Agency of the Netherlands,
December 2010.
Dean's Distinguished Award for Excellence in Research,
College of Science and Technology, Temple University,
October 2011.
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society,
Class of 2017.
Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
Class of 2017.
(A note from the College's news on these two recognitions).
Achievement in Mathematics Award,
College of Science and Technology 20th Anniversary Special Recognition, Temple University,
2018.
Faculty Senate Outstanding Service Award, Temple University, 2021.
Latest trends and insights into matrix theory, iterative methods, and preconditioning, A conference honoring the 65th birthday of Prof. Daniel B. Szyld, 24-26 March 2022, Temple University, Philadelphia.
A report on the conference in IMAGE.
Scientific Societies.
American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Asociación Argenitina de Matemática Aplicada, Computational e Industrial
(ASAMCI) .
Association for Women
in Mathematics (AWM).
GAMM Activity Group on Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra .
International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS).
Mathematical Council of the Americas.
National Association of Mathematicians (NAM).
Societé Mathématique de France (SMF).
Raices E-USA, a network of Argentinian scholars and scientists in the US.
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
(SIAM). Check this video clip:
Why be a SIAM member?
SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra. See an article
on
Trends in Linear Algebra.
Spectra, The Association for LGBT Mathematicians.
Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe
(UMALCA).
Check also the pages for
Domain Decomposition Methods,
the
NA-Digest,
and for the
Householder Symposia.
Some great resources: Why do math?, What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences?, Guide for Women in Mathematics: History, Scholarships, and Career Potential.
Four wonderful websites honoring mathematicians: Mathematically Gifted and Black, Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, Latin@s and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences, Indigenous Mathematicians.
and the Prison Mathematics Project.
Links to some good friends and colleagues
I am a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Faculty at Temple U. is unionized, our Union (TAUP) is part of the American Federation of Teachers (AFL-CIO). I like to read The Nation; I like to listen to Pacifica Radio, and Democracy Now! Links to the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Council for Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), and to NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America).
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Last updated: 21 November 2024