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

[Barry Smith]

On Apr 20, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> Sou-Cheng set up PETSc on her computer last week. She posted about it on Facebook, which I interpret as a good sign.

+1

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> 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
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> > 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
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> > 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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