Biography:Iain S. Duff
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Short description: British mathematician and computer scientist
Iain S. Duff | |
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 Iain Duff in 1988 Photo courtesy of MFO | |
| Born | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
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| Fields | Mathematics Computer science |
| Institutions | Harwell Laboratory |
| Doctoral advisor | Leslie Fox Reginald Prabhakar Tewarson |
Iain S. Duff is a British mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in numerical methods and software for solving problem with sparse matrices, in particular the Harwell Subroutine Library. From 1986 to 2009, he was the Group Leader of Numerical Analysis at Harwell Laboratory, which has moved in 1990 to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He is also the Project Leader for the Parallel Algorithms Group at CERFACS in Toulouse.
See also
- MUMPS
- Multifrontal method
External links
- Iain S. Duff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Iain S. Duff publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Iain S. Duff home page
- HSL, formerly the Harwell Subroutine Library
- Harwell-Boeing sparse matrix collection at Matrix Market
- Oral History interview with Duff by Thomas Haigh. Full text online as part of SIAM history project, covers his entire career.
- List of publications from Microsoft Academic
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