Victoria Howle

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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 a full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University.

Education and career

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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

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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

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