Lois Curfman McInnes

{{short description|American mathematician}}

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Lois Virginia Curfman McInnes is an American applied mathematician who works as a senior computational scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, where she works on the numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations for scientific applications.{{r|anl}}

Education and career

McInnes graduated in 1988 from Muhlenberg College, with a double major in mathematics and physics.{{r|anl}} She completed her doctorate in applied mathematics in 1993 at the University of Virginia; her dissertation, Solution of Convective-Diffusive Flow Problems with Newton-Like Methods, was supervised by James McDonough Ortega.{{r|anl|mgp}} She was chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering for 2015–2016.{{r|anl}} In 2021, she will join the SIAM council as a Member-at-Large. In 2022, she was elected Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Supercomputing (SIAM SIAG/SC).{{Cite web |title=SIAM Activity Groups Election Results |url=https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/siam-activity-groups-election-results-56 |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=SIAM News |language=en-US}}

Recognition

She won the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award of the DOE Office of Science in 2011.{{r|eol}}

She and her co-developers of the Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation were also honored in 2015 with the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.{{r|psce}}

She was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2017, "for contributions to scalable numerical algorithms and software libraries for solving large-scale scientific and engineering problems".{{r|siam}}

References

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[http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/curfman/ Lois Curfman McInnes], Argonne National Laboratory, retrieved 2017-04-25.

[https://www.anl.gov/articles/argonnes-barry-smith-and-lois-curfman-mcinnes-win-eo-lawrence-award Argonne's Barry Smith and Lois Curfman McInnes Win E.O. Lawrence Award], Eleanor Taylor, Argonne National Laboratory, November 29, 2011, retrieved 2017-04-25.

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[http://www.siam.org/prizes/sponsored/cse.php SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering], retrieved 2017-04-25.

[http://fellows.siam.org/index.php?sort=year&value=2017 SIAM Fellows: Class of 2017], retrieved 2017-04-25.

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