Daniel B. Szyld

Daniel B. Szyld (born 1955 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian and American mathematician who is a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has made contributions to numerical and applied linear algebra as well as matrix theory.^[2][3]

Daniel B. Szyld
Born	1955 (age 69–70) Buenos Aires
Nationality	Argentinian-American
Awards	SIAM Fellow, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Academic background
Education	Universidad de Buenos Aires
Alma mater	Courant Institute, New York University
Thesis	A Two-level Iterative Method for Large Sparse Generalized Eigenvalue Calculations (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Olof B. Widlund.[1]
Academic work
Discipline	Computational mathematics
Sub-discipline	Numerical linear algebra
Institutions	Temple University
Website	https://www.math.temple.edu/~szyld/

Education

He was admitted without an undergraduate degree to the graduate school at New York University,^[4] where he defended his PhD in 1983.^[1] While there, he worked as a research assistant for Wassily Leontief.^[4]

International awards and appointments

He was named as a SIAM Fellow^[3] and as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society^[2] in 2017. In 2020, he was elected president of the International Linear Algebra Society.^[5] He was editor-in-chief for the Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis from 2005 to 2013^[6] and SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications from 2015 to 2020^[7] and is on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra (ELA),^[8] the Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis (ETNA),^[6] Linear Algebra and its Applications,^[9] Mathematics of Computation,^[10] Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications,^[11] and Journal of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory.^[12] A conference in honor of his 65th birthday was held in 2022^[13]

Books and edited proceedings

• Klapper, Isaac; Szyld, Daniel B.; Zhao, Kai (2021). Metabolic Networks, Elementary Flux Modes, and Polyhedral Cones. Philadelphia: Other Titles in Applied Mathematics series, vol. 171, SIAM. doi:10.1137/1.9781611976533. ISBN 978-1-61197-652-6. MR 4279642. S2CID 237914557.

• Brenner, Susanne C.; Shparlinski, Igor; Shu, Chi-Wang; Szyld, Daniel B. (2020). 75 Years of Mathematics of Computation. Contemporary Mathematics. Vol. 754. Providence, R.I.: Contemporary Mathematics series vol. 754, American Mathematical Society. doi:10.1090/conm/754. ISBN 9781470451639. MR 4132114. S2CID 226239867.

Selected papers

• Leontief, Wassily; Duchin, Faye; Szyld, Daniel B. (1985). "New Approaches in Economic Analysis". Science. 228 (4698): 419–422. Bibcode:1985Sci...228..419L. doi:10.1126/science.228.4698.419. PMID 17746871. S2CID 40269573.

• Benzi, Michele; Szyld, Daniel B.; van Duin, Arno (1999). "Orderings for Incomplete Factorization Preconditioning of Nonsymmetric Problems". SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 20 (5): 1652–1670. Bibcode:1999SJSC...20.1652B. doi:10.1137/S1064827597326845. MR 1694677.

• Frommer, Andreas; Szyld, Daniel B. (2000). "On Asynchronous Iterations". Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 123 (1–2): 201–216. Bibcode:2000JCoAM.123..201F. doi:10.1016/S0377-0427(00)00409-X. MR 1798526.

• Frommer, Andreas; Szyld, Daniel B. (2001). "An Algebraic Convergence Theory for Restricted Additive Schwarz Methods Using Weighted Max Norms". SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. 39 (2): 463–479. doi:10.1137/S0036142900370824. MR 1860268.

• Simoncini, Valeria; Szyld, Daniel B. (2003). "Theory of Inexact Krylov Subspace Methods and Applications to Scientific Computing". SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 25 (2): 454–477. Bibcode:2003SJSC...25..454S. doi:10.1137/S1064827502406415. MR 2058070.

• Simoncini, Valeria; Szyld, Daniel B. (2005). "On the Occurrence of Superlinear convergence of exact and inexact Krylov subspace methods". SIAM Review. 47 (2): 247–272. Bibcode:2005SIAMR..47..247S. doi:10.1137/S0036144503424439. MR 2179897.

• Simoncini, Valeria; Szyld, Daniel B. (2007). "Recent computational developments in Krylov Subspace Methods for linear systems". Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications. 14: 1–59. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.67.1300. doi:10.1002/nla.499. MR 2289520. S2CID 4012149.