March 31, 2015

Anne Greenbaum a 2015 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Each year the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. A University of Washington mathematician is among 31 new fellows honored this year from academic, industrial and government institutions around the world.

Anne Greenbaum, a UW professor of applied mathematics, is being recognized for her contributions to theoretical and numerical linear algebra. Her research interests are in non-normal matrices, numerical linear algebra, iterative methods for solving large linear systems, integral equations, and fast methods for solving the corresponding partial differential equations. She is the author of a book on “Iterative Methods for Solving Linear Systems,” published by SIAM, and co-author of an undergraduate textbook, “Numerical Methods.”

Greenbaum received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1974 and her doctorate in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley. She worked as a mathematician at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1974-1986 and at New York University’s Courant Institute from 1986-1997. She became a member of the UW faculty in 1998.

Previous honors include the B. Bolzano Honorary Medal for Merit in the Mathematical Sciences, awarded in 1997 by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and the SIAM Activity Group on Linear Algebra’s award for Outstanding Paper in Applicable Linear Algebra.

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