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

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

I am chairing the SIAM Committee on Gene Golub SIAM Summer School (G2S3)

I am a member of the Editorial Boards of:
SeMA Journal (published by Socieded Española de Matemática Aplicada, the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics),
the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA),
the Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA) ( European mirror site),
Linear Algebra and its Applications,
Mathematics of Computation,
Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications,
Revue d'Analyse Numérique et de Théorie de l'Approximation (published by the Romanian Academy),
and the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications.

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:

CIMPA-UNESCO-MICINN Research School on Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation for Waves propagation and Imaging, 16-27 April 2012, Caracas, Venezuela.
Workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization, Shanghai, 21-25 May 2012.
SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, 18-22 June 2012, Valencia, Spain.
21th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, 25-29 June 2012, INRIA Rennes-Bretagne-Atlantique, France.
7th International Workshop on Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications (PMAA 2012), 28-30 June 2012, Birkbeck University of London, UK.
Conference in honour of Nancy Nichols' 70th birthday, 2-3 July 2012, University of Reading, UK.
Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Nonnnegative Matrices, 27-29 July 2012, Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Gene Golub SIAM Summer School 2012: Simulation and Supercomputing in the Geosciences, 29 July - 10 August 2012, Monterey, California.
IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Matemáticos, 6-10 August 2012, Cordoba, Argentina.
XII GAMM Workshop on Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra, 2-5 September 2012, Chateau Libici, Czech Republic.
Fifth Conference on Numerical Analysis (NumAn 2012) Recent Approaches to Numerical Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications, 5-8 September 2012, Ioannina, Greece.
ALGORITMY 2012, Conference on Scientific Computing, 9-14 September 2012, Podbanske, High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia.
Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (CANA'12), 9-12 September 2012, Wroclaw, Poland.
Third IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation, 10-12 September 2012, University of Birmingham, UK.
Sixteenth Haifa Matrix Theory Conference, 12-15 November 2012, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
Eighth International Linear Algebra Society Conference, 3-7 June 2013, Providence, RI.
The 8th International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques (Precond 2013), 19-21 June 2013, St. Anne's College, Oxford.
Preconditioning of Iterative Methods, A conferencein honor of Ivo Marek, 1-5 July 2013, Prague, Czech Republic.
Mathematical Congress of the Americas, 5-9 August 2013, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Householder Symposium XIX on Numerical Linear Algebra, 8-13 June 2014, near Spa, in the provience of Liège, Belgium.
Ninth International Linear Algebra Society Conference, 6-9 August 2014, Suwon, South Korea.

My latest research papers are

Xiuhong Du, Marcus Sarkis, Christian E. Schaerer, and Daniel B. Szyld, Inexact and truncated Parareal-in-time Krylov subspace methods for parabolic optimal control problems, Research Report 12-02-06, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, February 2012. Bibtex

Valeria Simoncini and Daniel B. Szyld, On the Superlinear Convergence of MINRES, Research Report 12-01-11, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, January 2012. Bibtex

Chen Greif, Tyrone Rees, and Daniel B. Szyld, Multi-preconditioned GMRES, Research Report 11-12-23, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, December 2011. Bibtex
Software for Multi-preconditioned GMRES available at the Matlab file exchange.

Mark Embree, Josef A. Sifuentes, Kirk M. Soodhalter, Daniel B. Szyld, and Fei Xue, Short-Term Recurrence Krylov Subspace Methods for Nearly-Hermitian Matrices, Research Report 11-10-10, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, October 2011. To appear in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. Bibtex

Daniel B. Szyld and Fei Xue, Local convergence analysis of several inexact Newton-type algorithms for general nonlinear eigenvalue problems, Research Report 11-08-09, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, August 2011. Bibtex

Xingwei Yang, Daniel B. Szyld, and Longin Jan Latecki, Diffusion on a Tensor Product Graph for Semi-Supervised Learning and Interactive Image Segmentation, Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, vol. 169 (2011) pp. 147-172. Bibtex

David Fritzsche, Andreas Frommer, Stephen Shank , and Daniel B. Szyld, Overlapping blocks by growing a partition with applications to preconditioning, Research Report 10-07-26, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, July 2010. Revised October 2011. Bibtex

Martin J. Gander, Sébastien Loisel, and Daniel B. Szyld, An optimal block iterative method and preconditioner for banded matrices with applications to PDEs on irregular domains, Research Report 10-05-21, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, May 2010. Revised April 2012. To appear in SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. Bibtex

Marlliny Monsalve and Daniel B. Szyld, Inexact Newton with Krylov projection and recycling for Riccati equations. Poster presented at the Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra: Perturbation, Performance, and Portability, Austin, Texas, 19-20 July 2010.

Hassane Sadok and Daniel B. Szyld, A new look at CMRH and its relation to GMRES, Research Report 10-04-25, Department of Mathematics, Temple University, April 2010. Revised July 2011. To appear in BIT Numerical Mathematics, vol. 52 (2012). Bibtex

Olivier Dubois, Martin J. Gander, Sébastien Loisel, Amik St-Cyr, and Daniel B. Szyld, The Optimized Schwarz Method with a Coarse Grid Correction, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 34 (2012) pp. A421-A458. Bibtex

Daniel B. Szyld and Fei Xue, Efficient preconditioned inner solves for inexact Rayleigh quotient iteration and their connections to the single-vector Jacobi-Davidson method, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 32 (2011) pp. 993-1018. Bibtex

Abed Elhashash and Daniel B. Szyld, Matrix functions preserving sets of generalized nonnegative matrices, Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra, vol. 20 (2010) pp. 673-690. Bibtex

Valeria Simoncini and Daniel B. Szyld, Interpreting IDR as a Petrov-Galerkin method, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, vol. 32 (2010) pp. 1898-1912. Bibtex

Valeria Simoncini and Daniel B. Szyld, On the field of values of oblique projections, Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 433 (2010) pp. 810-818. Bibtex

Sébastien Loisel and Daniel B. Szyld, On the convergence of Algebraic Optimized Schwarz Methods with applications to elliptic problems, Numerische Mathematik, vol. 114 (2010) pp. 697-728. 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 Proceedings of Seminar on Web Information Retrieval and Other Applications of Markov Chain Modeling
Complete CV (Temple format) or shorter CV.
Current PhD student supervision at Temple:
Scott Ladenheim
Stephen Shank (jointly with Valeria Simoncini)

Current postdoctoral supervision:
Fei Xue

Links to former students and postdocs

Scientific Societies.
American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).
GAMM Activity Group on Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra .
International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS).
National Association of Mathematicians (NAM).
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra.
Asociación Argenitina de Matemática Aplicada, Computational e Industrial (ASAMCI) .
Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe (UMALCA).
Check also the pages for Domain Decomposition Methods, and for the Householder Symposia.

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

I was honored with the 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.

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).
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Last updated: 30 April 2012