O’Leary Honored at SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra

Dianne O’Leary, a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of computer science with an appointment in UMIACS, was recently honored at a mini-symposium and banquet held in celebration of her retirement.

The event, which was held Oct. 29 during the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Applied Linear Algebra in Atlanta, highlighted O’Leary’s important contributions to numerical linear algebra, numerical optimization, and scientific computing. It also featured talks that focused on the breadth and depth of her influential career.

O’Leary’s contributions include fundamental work in preconditioned (block) conjugate gradient algorithms, multi-splitting iterative methods, numerical solution of ill-poised problems, iterative methods in optimization, Markov chain analysis, and more. Her work has found applications in image processing, quantum computing, information retrieval, text summarization, biomedicine and other areas.

O’Leary also holds an appointment in UMD’s Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Scientific Computing Program and was the founding co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS).