Biographical Sketch


Paul N. Swarztrauber

Paul Swarztrauber has over fifty refereed publications in the areas of elliptic and hyperbolic partial differential equations, computational fluid dynamics, linear algebra, parallel computation and communication algorithms, computational aspects of weather and climate modeling, vector and scalar harmonic transforms, the fast Fourier transform and computational methods for vector and multiprocessor computers. He is also the author of several large scientific software packages that are in general use throughout the scientific community. He was the first Director of the Computational Mathematics Program in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the NSF. He was a council member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and served as the council representative to the Board of Trustees. Paul was also a member of the Supercomputer Project Subcommittee, Computer Sciences and Technology Board, National Research Council in 1987. He is the inventor of the Multipipeline Multiprocessor , United States Patent 5,689,722.


Last updated July 14, 1998.
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