Iain S. Duff
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| Iain S. Duff | |
|---|---|
 Iain Duff in 1988 Photo courtesy of MFO | |
| Born | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields |
Mathematics Computer science |
| Institutions | Harwell Laboratory |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| 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 1986–2009, 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
- List of publications from 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 Search
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