G.W. "Pete" Stewart

Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
2162 Iribe Center
(301) 405-2681
Education: 
Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Special Awards/Honors: 
National Academy of Engineering Member, SIAM Fellow
Biography: 

G.W. "Pete" Stewart is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of computer science.

Stewart is a world-renowned expert in computational linear algebra. He has made fundamental and highly cited advances in the analysis of rounding error in numerical computations, perturbation of eigensystems, generalized inverses, least squares problems, and matrix factorizations. He has developed efficient algorithms for the singular value decomposition, updating and downdating matrix factorizations, and the eigenproblem that are widely used in applications.

Stewart has published six textbooks, which are models of exposition that have educated multiple generations of researchers. His contributions have led to numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Engineering and being named a SIAM Fellow.

Stewart received his doctorate from the University of Tennessee in 1968.

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Publications

2011


Stewart G.W.  2011.  On the Numerical Analysis of Oblique Projectors. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 32(1):309-348.

2009


Stewart G.W.  2009.  On the Semidefinite B-Arnoldi Method. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 31(3):1458-1468.

2008


Stewart G.W.  2008.  Block Gram–Schmidt Orthogonalization. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 31(1):761-775.

2007

2006


Stewart G.W.  2006.  A note on generalized and hypergeneralized projectors. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 412(2–3):408-411.

2005


Stewart G.W.  2005.  Error Analysis of the Quasi-Gram–Schmidt Algorithm. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 27(2):493-506.

Berry MW, Pulatova SA, Stewart G.W.  2005.  Algorithm 844: Computing sparse reduced-rank approximations to sparse matrices. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software-TOMS. 31(2):252-269.

2004

2003


Stewart G.W, Author, Mahajan A, Reviewer.  2003.  Matrix Algorithms, Volume II: Eigensystems. Applied Mechanics Reviews. 56(1):B2-B2-B2-B2.

2002

2001


Stewart G.W.  2001.  On the eigensystems of graded matrices. Numerische Mathematik. 90(2):349-370.

2000


Li R-C, Stewart G.W.  2000.  A new relative perturbation theorem for singular subspaces. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 313(1–3):41-51.

Stewart G.W.  2000.  The decompositional approach to matrix computation. Computing in Science Engineering. 2(1):50-59.

Kilmer M, Stewart G.W.  2000.  Iterative regularization and MINRES. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 21(2):613-628.

1999


Stewart G.W.  1999.  The QLP Approximation to the Singular Value Decomposition. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 20(4):1336-1348.

1998


Stewart M, Stewart G.W.  1998.  On hyperbolic triangularization: Stability and pivoting. SIAM journal on matrix analysis and applications. 19(4):847-860.

Stewart G.W.  1998.  On the adjugate matrix. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 283(1–3):151-164.

1997


Chang XC, Paige CC, Stewart G.W.  1997.  Perturbation analysis for the QR decomposition. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 18:775-791.

Stewart G.W.  1997.  On markov chains with sluggish transients. Communications in Statistics. Stochastic Models. 13(1):85-94.

Stewart G.W.  1997.  On the Perturbation of LU and Cholesky Factors. IMA Journal of Numerical AnalysisIMA J Numer Anal. 17(1):1-6.

1996


Von Matt U, Stewart G.W.  1996.  Rounding errors in solving block Hessenberg systems. Mathematics of Computation. 65(213):115-135.

1995


Stewart G.W.  1995.  Theory of the Combination of Observations Least Subject to Errors. SIAM, Philadelphia.[Translation of Gauss (1821, 1823, 1826).].

Stewart G.W.  1995.  On the solution of block Hessenberg systems. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications. 2(3):287-296.

Stewart G.W.  1995.  On graded QR decompositions of products of matrices. Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis. 3:39-49.

Stewart G.W.  1995.  On the stability of sequential updates and downdates. Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on. 43(11):2642-2648.

Stewart G.W.  1995.  Gauss, Statistics, and Gaussian Elimination. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 4(1):1-11.

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