Direct Methods for Sparse Matrices

I. S. Duff, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, CERFACS, Toulouse, France, and Strathclyde University, A. M. Erisman, The Boeing Company, Seattle (retired) and Seattle Pacific University, J. K. Reid, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Cranfield University

I. S. (Iain) Duff is an STFC Senior Fellow in the Scientific Computing Department at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England. He is also the Scientific Advisor for the Parallel Algorithms Group at CERFACS in Toulouse and is a Visiting Professor of Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde.

J. K. (John) Reid is an Honorary Scientist at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, England. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Shrivenham Campus of Cranfield University and is Convener of the ISO/IEC Fortran Committee.

A. M. (Al) Erisman is the Executive in Residence in the School of Business, Government, and Economics at Seattle Pacific University and is executive editor of Ethix magazine (http://www.ethix.org/), which he co-founded with a colleague in 1998. Over the past 15 years he has lectured on five continents in areas of business, technology, mathematics, ethics, faith, and economic development.