Daniel B. Szyld

Department of Mathematics
College 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

(About this photograph, and others)

My interest is Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing in general, and Numerical and Applied Linear Algebra in particular.

I am a member of the Center for Computational Mathematics at Temple University.

I am a member of the Editorial Boards of:
The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA),
the Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA) (European mirror site), (CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SPECIAL VOLUME DEDICATED TO OLOF WIDLUND),
Linear Algebra and its Applications,
Mathematics of Computation,
Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications,
Journal of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory (published by the Romanian Academy),
SeMA Journal: Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada,
and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (Editor-in-chief).

I am also a member of the Board of Advisors of Accelogic.
Fall 2018 course: Introduction to Numerical Analysis I

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:

Celebrating 75 Years of Mathematics of Computation, 1-3 November 2018, Institute for Computational and Experimental Reserach in Mathematics (ICERM), Providence, RI.
Vietnam–USA Joint Mathematical Meeting, 10-13 June 2019, Quy Nhon, Vietnam.
The International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications (Precon-2019), 1-3 July 2019, University of Minnesota, Twin cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
22nd Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS2019), 8-12 July 2019, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019), 15-19 July 2019, Valencia, Spain.
MAT TRIAD 2019 International Conference on Matrix Analysis and its Applications, 8-13 September 2019, Liblice, Czech Republic.
26th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, 2-6 December 2019, Hong Kong.
Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, 22-27 March 2020, Copper Mountain, Colorado.
Householder Symposium XXI, 14-19 June 2020, Hotel Sierra Silvana, Selva di Fasano, Bari, Italy.
23rd Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS 2020), 22-26 June 2020, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Mathematical Congress of the Americas, 19-24 July 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Some outside math-related opinions of note:

Maths spying: The quandary of working for the spooks, from The New Scientist, April 2014.

A letter to the editor of the New York Times

I wrote about the mathematics of voting. 16 October 2016.

My latest research papers are

Mireille El Haddad, José C. Garay, Frédéric Magoulès, Daniel B. Szyld, Asynchronous Optimized Schwarz Methods for one-way subdivision of bounded domains, Research Report 18-07-18, July 2017. Bibtex

José C. Garay, Frédéric Magoulès, Daniel B. Szyld, Synchronous and Asynchronous Optimized Schwarz Method for Poisson's Equation in Rectangular Domains, Research Report 17-10-18, October 2017. Revised April 2018. Bibtex

René Kehl, Reinhard Nabben, and Daniel B. Szyld, Adaptive Multilevel Krylov Methods, Research Report 17-06-24, June 2017. Revised April 2018. 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 2018:

José C. Garay Frédéric Magoulès, Daniel B. Szyld, Optimized Schwarz Method for Poisson's Equation in Rectangular Domains, Research Report 17-05-19, May 2017. Revised June 2017, July 2017, and March 2018. To appear in the Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods. Peter E. Bjostard, Sussane C. Brenner, Lawrence Halpern, Ralf Kornhuber, Hyea Hyun Kim, Talal Rahman, and Olof B. Widlund, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 125, Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, 2018. Bibtex

José C. Garay Frédéric Magoulès, Daniel B. Szyld, Convergence of Asynchronous Optimized Schwarz Methods in the plane, Research Report 17-05-17, May 2017. Revised January 2018 and March 2018. To appear in the Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods. Peter E. Bjostard, Sussane C. Brenner, Lawrence Halpern, Ralf Kornhuber, Hyea Hyun Kim, Talal Rahman, and Olof B. Widlund, eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Engineering, vol. 125, Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, 2018. Bibtex

Carlos Echeverría, Joerg Liesen, Daniel B. Szyld, and Petr Tichý, Convergence of the multiplicative Schwarz method for singularly perturbed convection-diffusion problems discretized on a Shishkin mesh. Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, vol. 48 (2018) pp.40-62. Bibtex

PUBLISHED IN 2017:

Tania Bakhos, Peter K. Kitanidis, Scott Ladenheim, Arvind K. Saibaba, and Daniel B. Szyld, Multipreconditioned GMRES for Shifted Systems, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 39 (2017) pp. S222-S247. Bibtex

Andreas Frommer, Kathryn Lund, and Daniel B. Szyld, Block Krylov subspace methods for functions of matrices, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, vol. 47 (2017) pp. 100-126. Bibtex
Software avalable at Gitlab

Andreas Frommer, Kathryn Lund, Marcel Schweitzer, and Daniel B. Szyld, The Radau-Lanczos method for matrix functions, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 38 (2017) pp. 710-732. Bibtex

Frédéric Magoulès, Daniel B. Szyld, and Cèdric Venet, Asynchronous Optimized Schwarz Methods with and without Overlap, Numerische Mathematik, vol. 137 (2017) pp. 199-227. Bibtex
Link to a presentation on some of this work at the SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra 2015.

Mian Ilyas Ahmad, Daniel B. Szyld, and Martin B. van Gijzen, Preconditioned multishift BiCG for H2-optimal model reduction, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 38 (2017) pp. 401-424. Bibtex

Chen Greif, Tyrone Rees, and Daniel B. Szyld, GMRES with multiple preconditioners, SeMA Journal: Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada, vol. 74 (2017) pp. 213-231. Bibtex
Software for Multi-preconditioned GMRES available at the Matlab file exchange.

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 Proceedings of Seminar on Web Information Retrieval and Other Applications of Markov Chain Modeling
Complete CV (Temple format) or shorter CV. Google scholar profile.
Current PhD student supervision at Temple:
Xinli Yu

Links to former students and postdocs

Honors and Awards.
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).

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).
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.
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.

Two great resources: Why do math?, What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences?.

And two wonderful websites honoring mathematicians: Mathematically Gifted and Black, Latin@s and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences.

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; see also This can't be happening. 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).
Link to an honest commemoration of 50 years of the American War in Vietnam
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Last updated: 29 May 2018