Iain S. Duff

Iain S. Duff
Iain Duff in 1988
Photo courtesy of MFO
Born
Glasgow, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Computer science
InstitutionsHarwell Laboratory
Doctoral advisorLeslie Fox
Reginald Prabhakar Tewarson

Iain S. Duff is a British mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in numerical methods and software for solving problem with sparse matrices, in particular the Harwell Subroutine Library. From 1986 to 2009 he was the Group Leader of Numerical Analysis at Harwell Laboratory, which moved in 1990 to the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He is also the Project Leader for the Parallel Algorithms Group at CERFACS in Toulouse.

See also

  • Iain S. Duff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • Iain S. Duff publications indexed by Google Scholar
  • Iain S. Duff home page Archived 7 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  • HSL, formerly the Harwell Subroutine Library
  • Harwell-Boeing sparse matrix collection at Matrix Market
  • Oral History interview with Duff by Thomas Haigh. Full text online as part of SIAM history project, covers his entire career.

Iain S. Duff publications indexed by Microsoft Academic


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