Biographical and Bibliographic Information

Loyce M. Adams
Professor of Applied Mathematics

Professor Adams completed her undergraduate work at the West Virginia Institute of Technology in Mathematics in 1975. She obtained her doctorate degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia in 1983. She has been at the University of Washington since 1985 and is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Computer Science department. Professor Adams has received support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Department of Energy, Digital Equipment Corporation, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is currently an editor of the SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, and recently spent a year at ETH in Zürich.

Professor Adams' research is a combination of numerical analysis and computer science. Recent projects have involved the solution of partial differential equations using iterative methods on a variety of parallel computer architectures and the theoretical development and practical implementation of methods for solving algebraic eigenvalue problems. She also works closely with a computer science group that is interested in developing portable but efficient languages for distributed memory parallel machines. Professor Adams is a dedicated and challenging teacher who enjoys giving courses in numerical analysis, parallel computation, and complex variables and doing research with graduate students. One of her doctoral students was honored to receive the Householder Prize for best dissertation on numerical linear algebra. Professor Adams' hobbies include tennis, skiing, backpacking, and killer croquet! A selection of her publications follows.

Towards a Divide and Conquer Algorithm for the Real Nonsymmetric Eigenvalue Problem, (accepted in SIAM J. Matrix Analysis), Aug. 1993. (with P. Arbenz)

A Comparison of Techniques for Solving Ill-Conditioned Problems Arising from the Immersed Boundary Method, Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, Vancouver, CA, Aug. 1993. (With Z. Yang)

Additive Polynomial Preconditioners for Parallel Computers, Parallel Computing, 9, pp. 333-345, 1989. (with M.E.G. Ong)

Analysis of the SOR Iteration for the 9-Point Laplacian, SIAM J. Num. Analysis, 25, No. 5, pp. 1156-1180, 1988. (with R. LeVeque and D. Young)

Is SOR Color-Blind?, SIAM J. Sci. and Stat. Computing, 7, No. 2, pp. 490-506, 1986. (with H. Jordan)

M-Step Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods, SIAM J. Sci. and Stat. Computing, 6, pp. 452-462, 1985.

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