Victoria Howle

Victoria E. Howle is an American applied mathematician specializing in numerical linear algebra and known as one of the developers of the Trilinos open-source software library for scientific computing. She is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University.

Education and career

Howle graduated from Rutgers University in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in English literature.[1] She earned her Ph.D. in 2001 from Cornell University. Her dissertation, Efficient Iterative Methods for Ill-Conditioned Linear and Nonlinear Network Problems, was supervised by Stephen Vavasis.[2]

After working as a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories from 2000 to 2007, she took a faculty position at Texas Tech in 2007.[1]

Service and recognition

Howle was one of the inaugural winners of the AWM Service Award of the Association for Women in Mathematics, in 2013.[3][4] The award honored her service to the association, including founding its annual essay contest in which students write biographies of women mathematicians.[1][4]

References
  1. Curriculum vitae (PDF), September 13, 2019, retrieved 2020-05-13
  2. Victoria Howle at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "AWM Service Award" (PDF), AWM Awards Given in San Diego, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 60 (5): 616–617, May 2013
  4. Association for Women in Mathematics Service Award 2013, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2020-05-13
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