[petsc-dev] Fwd: Sou-Cheng Choi awarded SIAM linear prize

[Jed Brown]

Sou-Cheng set up PETSc on her computer last week. She posted about it on
Facebook, which I interpret as a good sign.
On Apr 20, 2012 3:55 PM, "Barry Smith" <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

>
>   Is this fantastic algorithm available in KSP? If not, why not, since it
> is of world shattering performance.
>
>   Barry
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: Stefan Wild <wild at mcs.anl.gov>
> > Date: April 20, 2012 11:35:29 AM CDT
> > To: mcs at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> > Cc: lans-all at lists.mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: Sou-Cheng Choi awarded SIAM linear prize
> >
> > Congratulations are due to Argonne/UChicago/Computation Institute
> computational mathematician Sou-Cheng Choi for being awarded the 2012 SIAM
> SIAG/Linear Algebra Prize!
> >
> > This award is given once every three years and is one of the most
> prestigious awards given in the area of numerical linear algebra, I'm sure
> you'll recognize many of the previous winners
> > http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/siagla.php .
> >
> > The citation (from http://connect.siam.org/) is below.
> >
> > Congrats Sou-Cheng!
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> >
> >
> > Sou-Cheng Choi, Christopher Paige, and Michael Saunders will be awarded
> the 2012 SIAG/LA Prize for their paper, “MINRES-QLP: A Krylov Subspace
> Method for Indefinite or Singular Symmetric Systems,” SIAM Journal on
> Scientific Computing, 33:1810-1836, 2011.  According to the prize
> committee: “The authors improve on MINRES, an elegant, efficient and widely
> used iterative method for linear systems, achieving optimal accuracy and
> extending the algorithm to the solution of least squares problems.”
> >
>
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